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  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,034 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 1 September at 5:39PM
    Some photos 
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    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £172.5K Equity 36.11%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.4/£127.5K target 24.6% 1/9/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 53.3K or 41.8%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise)
    (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,034 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    These were some of my faves in an art gallery.
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £172.5K Equity 36.11%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.4/£127.5K target 24.6% 1/9/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 53.3K or 41.8%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise)
    (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • savingholmes
    savingholmes Posts: 29,034 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    It was certainly a memorable trip
    Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
    1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £172.5K Equity 36.11%
    2) £1.6K Net savings after CCs 14/8/25
    3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £25.6K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.2K) = 31.4/£127.5K target 24.6% 1/9/25
    (If took bigger lump sum = 53.3K or 41.8%)
    4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise)
    (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
    5) SIPP £4.8K updated 29/7/25
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,028 Forumite
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    Sounds very full on but also very fulfilling 😊 It would be lovely if a new friendship came from it.

    Good luck for tomorrow! 

    KK 
    As at 15.08.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,148  Interest saved £5,738 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 48 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 31st August
    Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,028 Forumite
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    Some of that artwork is amazing! So creative in its ideas and beautifully executed 😊

    KK
    As at 15.08.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £232,244
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,148  Interest saved £5,738 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 48 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 31st August
    Produce tracker: £353 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,197 Forumite
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    Lovely photos!  I'm feeling like I need a spaceman Snoopy now!

    I'm glad you had a good time, and hope you've managed to decompress a little.  Good luck for work, hope it's not too much of a bump back to reality.
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • Merlin's_Beard
    Merlin's_Beard Posts: 1,508 Forumite
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    Incredible space machines and art! Looks like you had a fab time, keeping my fingers crossed that a friendship blooms out of it as well
    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £226,957.97
    Start student loan 2012: £29,750; current student loan: CLEARED July 2025
  • TallGirl
    TallGirl Posts: 6,250 Forumite
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    Glad you had a great time sounds like a lovely if not full on wedding.Always lovely to meet no people who can connect with. Exciting times. 
    Save £12k in 25 No 49
    PB Win 21 £225, 22 £275, 23 £900, 24 £750 Balance Dec 25 £32.7K  
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    New diary aiming for fire https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6414795/mortgage-free-now-aiming-for-fire#latest

  • dawnybabes
    dawnybabes Posts: 3,433 Forumite
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    Sounds like a really good trip, loving the pictures - some of my DH ashes are sprinkled at the John Lennon Imagine memorial 😁😁
    Sealed pot challenge 822

    Jan - £176.66 :j
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,017 Ambassador
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    Glad you enjoyed yourself. Sounds like you had a ball. 
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