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2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes

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  • seventh88
    seventh88 Posts: 153 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    #39 with £462 for April, bringing the total to £1516 for the year so far.
    Chuffed to be over half way to my 3k target, two months ahead of schedule :)
    Thanks for all your encouragement and support everyone, and thanks for hosting this @julicorn , I wouldn't have kept on track without this.
     Debt = £8017/£8017 (100% paid - cleared 26th August 2020) Boiler Fund = £2500/£2500 (100% saved - 26th August 2021)Emergency fund = £5000/£5000 (100% saved - 5th Jan 2025) | MFW Goal 2025: £6429/£3000 | Mortgage  = £88,519/£132,469 (33% paid)

    Goal for 2026:
    1) MFW £472/£3600





  • ShALLaX
    ShALLaX Posts: 119 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    #26 checking in again with another overpayment of £894.64 for April. Slow and steady wins the race…

    Thank you!

  • smetf
    smetf Posts: 382 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Morning all, 
    Great to see everyone's progress!
    #3 with an April OP of £686.62 to report.
    Can't see there being much scope for any extra OPs this month in the budget so will try to keep surveys ticking over - mortgage starting with a 4 is approaching!
    S
    Mortgage £39,933
    MFW 2022 #35 10,000
    MFW 2023 #3 10358.97
    MFW 2024 #3 10000
    MFW 2025 #3 10000
    MFW 2026 1236.62/4100
    MFiT-T7 #10 aiming for 16k https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6283332/halving-our-income-and-still-aiming-for-mortgage-free#latest
  • gih
    gih Posts: 58 Forumite
    Third Anniversary 10 Posts Name Dropper
    #57 with April OP of £821.37.  Thanks
  • AuntieL
    AuntieL Posts: 472 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    #45 An £101 OP for April 😁 Thank you @julicorn
    Debt-free journey started August 2023. DF 02/09/2024 🥳 (except mortgage)
    January 2026 NSD Challenge 5/15

    MFW 2025 #45
    Jan 2016 Mortgage = £150,894 (23years 0months)
    Current outstanding = £92,396.89 (10years 4months)
    2024 Overpayment = £675.66
    2025 Overpayment = £710/£700
    2026 Overpayment = £44.43/ £1000
  • #19 overpayment for March 2025 £404.66 Thanks Julicorn
    Mortgage Free Wannabe
    Mortgage free aim date (set Dec 23): 2030 or earlier
    Mortgage free wannabe starting figure: £73,576.96
    Current Mortgage Figure: £53,301.28

    Mortgage end date with no overpayments: 20th July 2037
    Mortgage end date with overpayments: 1st Jan 2030

    Goal 1   10k off mortgage balance by 31st March 2024           Achieved
    Goal 2   60k mortgage balance by 30th September 2024        Got to £62,999
    Goal 3   10k off mortgage balance by 31st March 2025           
    Achieved
  • turtlemoose
    turtlemoose Posts: 1,701 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    #20 with £150 for April (£600 total for the year).

    Loving that we've collectively smashed £250k overpaid already! 
  • Been a while since I checked in #37 so far this year I've paid off £562.23. 😊
    Emergency Fund goal - £717.77/1500
    Weight loss goal 1 - 1/7 lb 
    Mortgage OP goal 2026 - £110.77/£4500 

    New Diary- https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6647063/investing-in-us-holidays-health-and-the-road-to-150k#latest
  • Hettyhound
    Hettyhound Posts: 1,150 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Hi, number 21 with an April over payment of £135.  Thank you Julicorn
    SPC #023 SPC 12: £125.86; SPC 13: £214.98; SPC 14: £297.41; SPC 15: £237.27; SPC 16: £335.39; SPC 17: £662.09 SPC 18: £660.03; SPC 19 ?
    MFW #21 Mortgage start Dec 2015 £79,950; Jan 2026 £16,119 2025 OP £2991/£2,000 2026 £130/£5,500
    MFiT T6 #3 £19070/£25,500 (72.82%%) MFiT T7 #3 £5811/£21,930 (26.49%)
  • smetf
    smetf Posts: 382 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    #3 checking in with additional OP of £388, bringing April's OP to £1074.62
    And a shiny new 4 at the beginning of the mortgage 🎉
    S x
    Mortgage £39,933
    MFW 2022 #35 10,000
    MFW 2023 #3 10358.97
    MFW 2024 #3 10000
    MFW 2025 #3 10000
    MFW 2026 1236.62/4100
    MFiT-T7 #10 aiming for 16k https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6283332/halving-our-income-and-still-aiming-for-mortgage-free#latest
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