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She has returned. Spaced out and hungry 😂 and my wallet lighter…Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Oct 33
Mortgage OP 2025 £1850/10000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £42,232
39 pay days until freedom!
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)3 -
Glad that she is homeI am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.2 -
Love the lighthouse photo.
We've had all weathers today - including hail and what briefly looked like snow. Also had glorious sunshine - and now howling wind. Such a joy!!Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K with now £177.2K Equity 31.84%
2) CC1 £12.1 (0% expires Aug 26), CC2 £9.7 (0% expires Aug 25) =c£21.8K
3) CC debt offset by £21.3K savings & £10.2K investments
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £18.8K 17/2 + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 23.6/£127.5K target 19.29% value
4) FI Age 60 income target £13.7/30K 45.7%
5) SIPP £4.8K 12/2/25
6) Set up new income streams: Start up costs £4252 -
At least we missed the snow😂 gorgeous day today but I was working 🙄 went out for a few walks at work and a run when I got home. I really need to cut the grass but maybe tomorrow…
I was tempted to have a takeout this evening but contented myself with chicken strips and oven chips from the freezer - marginally healthier and already paid for 👍 so NSD today🎉Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Oct 33
Mortgage OP 2025 £1850/10000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £42,232
39 pay days until freedom!
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)3 -
Finally cut the grass after work today, it looks so much better. Heavy rain forecast for tomorrow, guess who is off?
Bought some pretty tulips today, seeing them is cheering me up each time I pass them.
Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Oct 33
Mortgage OP 2025 £1850/10000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £42,232
39 pay days until freedom!
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)4 -
I’ve put some tulips in pots this year and moved them to the patio outside our lounge doors last weekend. They are making me smile every time I see them. They are a happy random mishmash of colours - I think I will do more for next spring 😊
KKAs at 15.01.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £244,153
- OPs to mortgage = £9,694 Interest saved £4,182 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends November 2029
Read 4 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 7th February
Produce tracker: £16 of £300 in 2025
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
I have yellow and red in the garden KK but just bought plain white ones to go in a lovely blue and white vase, it’s little things isn’t it?Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Oct 33
Mortgage OP 2025 £1850/10000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £42,232
39 pay days until freedom!
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)5 -
The ones I got today were white skinty & are in a blue & white jug!I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.6 -
beanielou said:The ones I got today were white skinty & are in a blue & white jug!Mortgage End Date: Apr 36/Aiming for Apr 28/Current Oct 33
Mortgage OP 2025 £1850/10000Mortgage OP 2024 £7700/7000
Mortgage balance: £42,232
39 pay days until freedom!
”Do what others won’t early in life so you can do what others can’t later in life” (stolen from Gally Girl)4 -
I was lucky that when we moved in here we had a beautiful mature garden already...but I noticed it had no tulips last spring and they are one of my favourites so I planted some in reds, pinks, purples and burgundy they flower from beginning of April all the way through to end of May 😍
MORTGAGE BALANCE January 1st £118,267.06
Savings:-
EF:- £1113.43/3000
MOP:- £255.73/ 1000 (before August '25)
Debts 2025:-
Car- 0/12386
Carpet -820.70/1500
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