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Sending "ring phone, RING!" vibes your way. Horrible when you are waiting for stuff to enable moving on with things.🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
I could spend today looking at the phone willing it to ring but I am very bored of that now.
today the local council are bringing me extra bins and recycling stuff, then I have a week to fill them. Far cheaper than a skip and a lot easier than constant tip runs.
Need to go out and buy some bin bags and some actual food might be a good idea.Last night I made an excellent variation on theCarrot and cashew biriani that I used to make (good food recipe). I made it with half chickpeas/half rice/onion/grated carrots/peas and 15 cashew nuts and a squeeze of lemon juice at the end. It was very nice, a lot of chewing but tasty. The chickpeas was a suggestion in the comments but it worked really well.My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese
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Hurrah, I finally have an appointment to register the death at the weekend. Once I have those multiple copies then I will be able to move the financial stuff forward. The funeral can now be confirmed too.
Such a relief to get to this stage.
My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese
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Oh Redo - I am glad to hear that. Do you have someone to go with you to the appointment?🎉 MORTGAGE FREE (First time!) 30/09/2016 🎉 And now we go again…New mortgage taken 01/09/23 🏡
Balance as at 01/09/23 = £115,000.00 Balance as at 31/12/23 = £112,000.00
Balance as at 31/08/24 = £105,400.00 Balance as at 31/12/24 = £102,500.00
£100k barrier broken 1/4/25SOA CALCULATOR (for DFW newbies): SOA Calculatorshe/her4 -
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Phew - that must be such a relief for you! - It will feel good to be able to progress all the things that have been on hold!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!3
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Glad you've received the positive news redo and start to move things forward. 👍Finally Debt Free! - July 2016 🌟
Finished Emergency Fund- £10,000 April 2017
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RETIRED: MAY 2021!!!!😀🎆
My diary: “Seasidegal's Scrimpy Retirement Diary!”4 -
I always think this period between the death and the funeral / committal etc. is the hardest. Glad to hear that the process is finally moving.KKAs at 15.07.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
- OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030
Read 41 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 9th August
Produce tracker: £272 of £300 in 2025
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Pleased to hear you’ve got a date and can then move forward with formalising arrangements. Progress.4
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Thanks everyone - yes I have several volunteers to go with me.
Yesterdays excitement was a dash to the vets with the kitten, who had managed to get a splinter high up in her gumline which was infected. She had to stay for a few hours and have an anaesthetic so that they could clear it out for her. Lump by her nose (hard to tell on a black cat) but when she was giving me head bumps I could smell that something wasn't right so I got her straight in. More money gone but I am glad I took her and agreed to the anaesthetic because it was clearly going to get steadily worse for her, poor baby.My mortgage free diary: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6498069/whoops-here-comes-the-cheese
GNU Mr Redo11
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