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2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes
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Happy New Year all,
#3 checking in with our first OP of 2025, £534.56.
SEmergency fund 13.5k Home/ holiday fund 6.5k Mortgage £45,614- MFW 2022 #35 10,000
- MFW 2023 #3 10358.97
- MFW 2024 #3 10000
- MFW 2025 #3 6945.69/10000
- MFW 2024 #3 10000
- MFW 2023 #3 10358.97
1 - MFW 2022 #35 10,000
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Hello! Happy New Year!Can I have #55 again this year with a target of 15k? Thank you!1
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Hello, number 105 here with my first OP of 2025, please can you put me down for £500 please for January.
thanks again for running the challenge again this year Julicorn, much appreciated.
This year will be taking me closer to actual Mortgage Freedom, as all being well, I am aiming to have the mortgage cleared by the end of 2026 fingers crossed. This years OP's will be stuck to the 10% allowance so is why lower again, but will then be ensuring any extra is put in a pot for a lump sum payment next year once my current fix ends.MFW#105 - 2015 Overpaid £8095 / 2016 Overpaid £6983.24 / 2017 Overpaid £3583.12 / 2018 Overpaid £2583.12 / 2019 Overpaid £2583.12 / 2020 Overpaid £2583.12/ 2021 overpaid £1506.82 /2022 Overpaid £2975.28 / 2023 Overpaid £2677.30 / 2024 Overpaid £2173.61 Total OP since mortgage started in 2015 = £37,286.86 2025 MFW target £1700, payments to date at April 2025 - £1712.07..3 -
I kind of flaked off with this last year because we decided to move house mid year 🤣 I would like to join again though please! I'm aiming for £1500 OPs thanks Julie 🙏🏻😊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
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#43 £1.94 today plus a round up from yesterday
Threw a round up in and have now OP’d 5.78/2025MBNA 237.47/13997.47
Santander 300/10550
Nationwide 60/460
Very 943/943 paid off 01/02/25
Santander OD 0/2900
Nationwide OD 100/200
Mortgage 18430/125194
EF 300/1000
Declutterred via Vinted 53/2025
NSD Feb 2/7
SPC2025 #11
52 wk envelope challenge #6 28/virtual
Debt repaid 2025 2437.60/38650.60
MFW 2025 1036/107800
Make £2025 in 2025 458/2025
Friday Fiver 35/260 virtual pot.
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What matters is how we live and love and how we spend our dash. (L Ellis)1 -
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999poundproject said:Hello! Happy New Year!Can I have #55 again this year with a target of 15k? Thank you!debtfreewannabe321 said:I kind of flaked off with this last year because we decided to move house mid year 🤣 I would like to join again though please! I'm aiming for £1500 OPs thanks Julie 🙏🏻😊
Welcome back, I've given you #37 for this year.
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Hi can I join in please?I’m putting money into savings rather than actually overpaying at the moment because the calculator said I’d be better off doing that at least until my fixed rate ISA finishes in September. I’m aiming to save £5000 a year for the next 5 years, which added to the savings I already have should give me enough to pay off the mortgage 7 years early 😀.
Deposit of £400 already made on 2nd January.1 -
Thank you Julicorn. Straight off the bat with £519.72 for Jan.
#32MFW 2025 #32 £4,926.23/£3,000; MFW 2024 #32 £4,217.84/£3,000; MFW 2023 #32 £5,238.84/£4,000; MFW 2022 #32 £8,246.43/£8,000; MFW 2021 #32 £8,982.73/£8,000; MFW 2020 #32 £12,000/£6,000
Save £12k in 2025 #48 £11,200/£14,000; Save £12k in 2024 #26 £13,055.37/£6,000; Save £12k in 2023 #31 £11,500/£6,000; Save £12k in 2022 #32 £7,180.24/£7,000; Save £12k in 2021 #32 £9,500/£8,000; Save £12k in 2020 #147 £9,370/£8,000
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BridgetTheCat said:Hi can I join in please?I’m putting money into savings rather than actually overpaying at the moment because the calculator said I’d be better off doing that at least until my fixed rate ISA finishes in September. I’m aiming to save £5000 a year for the next 5 years, which added to the savings I already have should give me enough to pay off the mortgage 7 years early 😀.
Deposit of £400 already made on 2nd January.1
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