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  • Good luck 🤞🏻 
    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.
    Total- £1162.23
    Goal pay off 1% of current mortgage in 1 year. £1200. (96.83% there)

    EF- first goal £300
  • CrazyBee787
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    edited 18 February at 10:19AM
    Good luck 🤞🏻 
    Thank you so much, your comment is greatly appreciated. XX
  • beanielou
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    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    Hope all goes well. 
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  • CrazyBee787
    CrazyBee787 Posts: 927 Forumite
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    beanielou said:
    Hope all goes well. 
    Thank you beanie I normally can guage if I have got the job, but this time I am stumped. I think he is going to see what other candidates he has and he said he would let me know next week. I liked the sound of the set up, he pretty much said I could be mostly remote once I am set up after the first 2-3 months. I imagine I would get there sooner. Anyhow it is done and I gave it my best.

    Next I have a phone interview this afternoon, so fingers crossed I get a face to face, as this role pays more and is more advanced and looks to be a good opportunity, lets see.

    On the spending front, I am so pathetic it is unheard of. I was going to park a bit away so I would get free parking, but then I thought I would be all huffy so thought I would park nearer having to spend £3.30, then I was miles early, thinking it would take longer to get in and so I ended up buying a drink and breakfast muffin. Then on the way home I thought well I may as well get lunch from the garage as well. So not good. I am always less restrained when I am out of work.

    Anyhow I best be off to prepare for the next interview....
  • CrazyBee787
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    I have had another interview, it looks like I will get a face to face but await confirmation. It sounds like quite a good opportunity. I now have another interview tomorrow on teams for a bookkeeping role also Which is similar money, now I need to prepare for it. I am sure I will get one of these jobs! It is just a matter of timeXX
  • RedLipstick
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    Ahhh, sounds like it went well, delighted for you!

    Mortgage: £173,700 Sep 22  £160,920 Apr 25

    MF Date: Sep 52 Mar 52


    2025 Goals:

    1) EF2 #84 £4000/£10000

    2) Pay off all your debts by Christmas 2025 #34 £2,400 to go

    3) MFW25 #51 £1628.22/£5000

    MFiT-T7 #5

  • CrazyBee787
    CrazyBee787 Posts: 927 Forumite
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    Ahhh, sounds like it went well, delighted for you!
    I feel that it went sort of well, everything sounds all right in the detail. But In the end I didn't think we were suitable for each other, I didn't feel like I was on the same page, I don't know how to word this. But I felt that he reminded me of someone very bad from school, could be the same person, they were very loose!! I felt like of all the people I wanted to work for he was the last on the list. It is a shame because on the face of it he seemed sort of okay and the job is what I would like to do mostly, but it is not anything special and I don't really get to use many of my abilities. 

    But I won't say no, I just hope I get something else sooner, I really need to be paid and soon! I have probably come out of the frying pan into the fire!! I was really hoping some of the other jobs would interview me. I am keen on the telephone interview I had today, but I am not keen on the journey tbh. Which doesn't leave a lot of options. So I am sort of stuck between a rock and a hard place...it is my own doing so it is deserved, I just wanted something better for myself, it looks like I will have to accept one of these distant jobs - The up side is I can leave work at work!

    I have blocked the use of the credit card on both credit cards I use, I haven't closed the account I am hoping the block will be enough of a deterrent to using it, you see I had started entering this competition and spending a princely sum to enter and it was getting a bit out of hand, I asked both cards if they could block me from using a particular site and they both said no - it is strange because in the past they have blocked me, now they can't? So I won't use it, unless I buy a car or something else BIG!

    This did mean that I have borrowed £2000 and I have agreed to pay back £1000 only so I have been given £1000, I have already made plans with it, first pay off the credit card...done! Which I am now thinking I should not have done, if I was wise, this money could have lasted a lot longer, please CrazyBee GET A JOB! I have earmarked £480 to food and fuel for the rest of this month and the next, this is in the hopes that I get a job very soon. The fuel is £40 per week which I am to go a distance will probably be about right £40X5 - £200 £280 on food until 19th April. 

    That leaves Bill money for 2 months also, I am scared there is not much leeway, I am likely doomed, but I need to remain upbeat and positive in order to get a job!
  • CrazyBee787
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    edited 19 February at 8:49AM
    I have been umming and ahhing over night about the possible jobs, I am looking forward to todays interview, I am prepped and ready to go. I do need to get some chores done, I don't know why but it feels messy and unclean here, so a little refresher tidy up this morning, a list is needed:-

    1) Have breakfast

    2) Put washing on

    3) put washing up away

    4) clean office desk

    5) sort washing

    6) Wash up 

    Then I will do a job search again and rest and relax, also go over everything for the interview this afternoon and maybe read and cross stitch as well?
  • CrazyBee787
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    The interview didn't go so well, the lady didn't show up. Never mind these things happen, however I did get a call before about a job I applied for it looks to be challenging slight less pay but could start as soon as Monday! That would be excellent! I have been tempted all day to spend money but haven't, all food related dreams, I think because I am bored, now I was thinking of getting a takeout with my prolific funds, but that would be unwise, so I'll try not to but I am severely tempted and I still might.
  • CrazyBee787
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    I didn't get the take out thankfully. So my no spend day is safely added and my prolific fund is untouched - for now. I did message the employer whom I was not so keen on, but I don't think I should let a promiscuous person get in the way of me having a job and for decent pay and what I would like to do, he might not be the same person at anyrate, on the face of it he seemed friendly and helpful...So I have changed my stance radically.

    It sounds eager right if you do a follow up message like you are keen to hear back, being eager is okay isn't it? Anyhow I said that the man came across well and that I was interested to know how the other interviews were going and when I would likely hear back, I think that is okay.

    I am very glad I haven't spent today, I need the rest of feb to be the same No spends. In the hopes I get the blue monster, I have been dreaming about having the blue monster for quite some time, so I am determined to get it. 
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