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Buying a little piece of Middle England; Manifesting my way to mortgage free.

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  • HotDog2020
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    I love the rainy day cloud, I wish you all the best on the job front - keep perservering eventually something will turn up and I am sure even if it is 15 miles a way it will still boost your funds somewhat. Don't look at it as stress booster more as a pleasure to find out how each company operates - I was once told this and it is a lot more fun then going for a plain job interview! There is a lot of expenses to moving, would you downsize or move to a cheaper location - would it really add that much value to move? something to weigh up, especially if you like where you are? All the best. HotdogX
  • Watty1
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    Just had a lovely catch up on here.  I totally get the decision making. For me the EF would be the priority but that is me and keep paying the interest free loan as it is interest free but we are all different .Rarely is there a wrong decision :)
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • I love the rainy day cloud, I wish you all the best on the job front - keep perservering eventually something will turn up and I am sure even if it is 15 miles a way it will still boost your funds somewhat. Don't look at it as stress booster more as a pleasure to find out how each company operates - I was once told this and it is a lot more fun then going for a plain job interview! There is a lot of expenses to moving, would you downsize or move to a cheaper location - would it really add that much value to move? something to weigh up, especially if you like where you are? All the best. HotdogX
    Morning :smiley: yes I have applied for a fair few now, I got emailed a couple more last night that I sent the application off to as well. That's a good way of looking at it to be honest, I will have to remember this one! We love the house but not the area :neutral: I kind of wish we had never moved here. The house is perfect though, great size compared to my last one but just not in a great town. It is very busy some days with local events but other days the shops are only open 10-3 and sometimes you go down there and they have stuck a note on saying, sorry it was quiet we went home :lol: I kind of like the laid-back-ness some days, and other days, well, that girl who's from London gets irritated and wants convenience and the city back :lol: it is a good lesson for me for sure being here! I don't think it will add monetary value but maybe more value to our every day lives if that makes sense.

    Watty1 said:
    Just had a lovely catch up on here.  I totally get the decision making. For me the EF would be the priority but that is me and keep paying the interest free loan as it is interest free but we are all different .Rarely is there a wrong decision :)

    Hi @Watty1 how are you? Yes I think everyone is right on the EF and that is where my priority will move to. I find the loan a sticking point as I hate debt but at 0% I really don't want to shift my focus all to that for 6 months to pay it off...i could be saving that money in a 5-6% saver instead (and if I wanted to, pay off the balance at the end of the year and have some left over). I think you're right though, savings is savings, be it on a mortgage loan, in a higher interest savers account or paying off the loan to bring money back into the budget...can there be a wrong decision? Probably not. At least I am not getting into more debt :smiley:

    MORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!
    Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. J- £103.27, F- £115, M- £91.50, A- £100, M- £200, J- £200. J- £200. Aug-£200.
    Total- £1362.23
    Goal pay off 1% of current mortgage in 1 year. £1650

    EF- first goal £300
  • ~FlowerPot~
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    Morning all, well I have been in touch with a friend I did a course with yesterday and this morning and I've suggested we meet up regularly to swap skillsets to give us some confidence in perhaps selling this to the public :lol: I would like to practice my past life regression and meditation courses with her (as I've written a new course recently) and she would like to practice reiki and past life regression too. So this is quite exciting and has kind of spurred me on to perhaps sell my skills in that way rather than pimping myself out as a lowly paid supervisor...I could make the same in one and a half sessions (2.5 hours work) what I was making in a week (12 hours work)....I just have very little confidence in myself as the years pass me by.... It is something to work towards though and perhaps I could take a job in the meantime (if I can get one...I noticed I was turned down by one not so long ago for being overqualified.) Hmph. 


    amazing, defiently think you should go for it and working alongside another person with similar skills hopefully you can bounce ideas off each and help boost each other moving forwards.
    I would be really interested in the past life regression, but no idea if you could do that from a distance ??
    I really wish I knew someone locally to do this. I have my healing work, but need to expand it somehow. Sharing ideas and skills with someone who is like minded is very valuable, for both sides!

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  • beanielou
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    Yes. You can do the past life regression from a distance. 
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  • Morning all, well I have been in touch with a friend I did a course with yesterday and this morning and I've suggested we meet up regularly to swap skillsets to give us some confidence in perhaps selling this to the public :lol: I would like to practice my past life regression and meditation courses with her (as I've written a new course recently) and she would like to practice reiki and past life regression too. So this is quite exciting and has kind of spurred me on to perhaps sell my skills in that way rather than pimping myself out as a lowly paid supervisor...I could make the same in one and a half sessions (2.5 hours work) what I was making in a week (12 hours work)....I just have very little confidence in myself as the years pass me by.... It is something to work towards though and perhaps I could take a job in the meantime (if I can get one...I noticed I was turned down by one not so long ago for being overqualified.) Hmph. 


    amazing, defiently think you should go for it and working alongside another person with similar skills hopefully you can bounce ideas off each and help boost each other moving forwards.
    I would be really interested in the past life regression, but no idea if you could do that from a distance ??
    I really wish I knew someone locally to do this. I have my healing work, but need to expand it somehow. Sharing ideas and skills with someone who is like minded is very valuable, for both sides!

    Yes you can as @beanielou says! Dependant on wifi not messing about 😃😆 I had a lady on my course who was in a different country so she did the whole course online on a zoom call. We practiced on one another for at least six months after the course finished. I had a sometimes doggy connection (unsure if it was her or me) but it is possible and for the most part it was good. You don't want to be losing a connection half way through hypnotising someone really but we set intentions for you to be able to re-join a call again. I prefer to do it in person when it is me being hypnotised but basically all hypnosis is self-hypnosis we are just there to help you relax and find that past life memory I believe we all hold in our DNA 💞 


    MORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!
    Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. J- £103.27, F- £115, M- £91.50, A- £100, M- £200, J- £200. J- £200. Aug-£200.
    Total- £1362.23
    Goal pay off 1% of current mortgage in 1 year. £1650

    EF- first goal £300
  • Wasn't a nsd after all. We took a wander in a local town with the dog. Found a new pair of designer shorts in a CS. Picked them up for £10! 

    Brought them home, took pictures and listed on v1nted for £18, accepted an offer on £15 within an hour of buying them and will send them off in a little bit.

    Does that still count as a NSD as technically we bought something and sold it back on again within an hour for profit 🤣🤣🤣 don't get the money until they receive them though. I also bought a designer top for myself which was £4 so overall we have made £1 😃 that's the way to do it....
    MORTGAGE BALANCE when we moved Aug 2024, £120,000. January 1st £118,267.06. May 1st, £116, 123, June 1st, £115,536, New mortgage added for extension- £165,000 July 1st!
    Mortgage Overpayments - September-December, £152.46. J- £103.27, F- £115, M- £91.50, A- £100, M- £200, J- £200. J- £200. Aug-£200.
    Total- £1362.23
    Goal pay off 1% of current mortgage in 1 year. £1650

    EF- first goal £300
  • skint_spice
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    Those look delicious!
    Mortgage OP 2025 £6250/7000
    Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000

    Mortgage balance: £36,210


    Money making challenge £38/400

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