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Cheery's path to fulfilment - finishing the DIY, looking after myself, appreciating the garden 🌻
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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*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.2 -
That will look so good when it’s done! 😊 Good colour choice, to pick up the existing tile colour without matchy-matching - very chic 😊
KKAs at 21.05.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £215,607
- OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 35 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 24th May.
Produce tracker: £119 of £400 in 2026
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.3 -
Ha - Mr Cheery found the tiles in a skip, I think 😂 We certainly didn't buy them, we've not even got that many, just enough for this space and about another 10 or so.
The rest of the floor is... interesting 😂 Terrazzo tiles, but been under vinyl for many years. Most of them are grubby white, and I have cleaned them with every proprietary cleaner and plenty of other things, and while they look better, they'll never look properly clean without professional cleaning/sanding which isn't going to happen. Some green ones round the edge and the odd red one. The dining room end, which used to be a separate room, had similar tiles, but blue and white 😂 At the bottom of the stairs, which again used to be a separate hallway, are yellow and black and pale green 😂
The whole house is wonky, so if you stand at one end the dining room are straight with each other, but the the kitchen veers off at an angle 😂 obviously irrelevant when it was two rooms, but looks 'quirky' now. Mr Cheery loves them, so they're staying 😂
Anyway, it's done - well, they'll need to dry and I'll grout later. They wouldn't do if it was a thoroughfare, the ground underneath isn't flat enough, but given they won't be stood on it doesn't matter.
One step closer to being able to fit the skirting boards! And something that's been on my to do list since the sink was moved in October 2021 🙄😂17 -
They look excellent Cheery, well done for tucking it off the list! 😁Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Well done Cheery - another frog eaten!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)Original End Date - Sept 2041 New projection - Sep 2038 (reduced by 3 years)3
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They look lovely cheery, well done! 👏I've been mortgage free once, so let's do it again!
Starting balance March 26 £191,274.534 -
Thank you all!
Had a banging headache all day 🙄 I've drunk loads of water, taken painkillers, but it's still not shifting. Going to have a bit of a tidy up then a nice bath, I think, see if the steam gets to it 🙄 Glad I've got tomorrow off work!6 -
Looks spot on. Inspiring too.
Hope the headache clears up.My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error. Please reinstall universe and reboot+++
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Tiling looks ace.
I hope your headache disappears while you're relaxing in the bath.Fashion on a ration 2025 0/66 coupons spent
79.5 coupons rolled over 4/75.5 coupons spent - using for secondhand purchases
One income, home educating family3 -
Cheery_Daff said:Thank you all!
Had a banging headache all day 🙄 I've drunk loads of water, taken painkillers, but it's still not shifting. Going to have a bit of a tidy up then a nice bath, I think, see if the steam gets to it 🙄 Glad I've got tomorrow off work!
Perhaps you need wine???!!
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