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  • doingitanyway
    doingitanyway Posts: 10,546 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    Thank you @cathybird for welcoming me back. 1/20 for me please. I had to throw the rest of a bottle of wine down the sink to be AF today!
    If you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them

    Emergency fund 350/1000
    Buffer fund 100/100
    Debt Free (again) 25/07/2025
  • marahouti
    marahouti Posts: 1,727 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    1/25 today please cathybird. Thank you. X
  • redofromstart
    redofromstart Posts: 6,021 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    1/20 for me please Cathybird
    My mortgage free diary: +++ Divide by Cucumber Error.  Please reinstall universe and reboot+++

    GNU Mr Redo

  • mrosie
    mrosie Posts: 21 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    1/15 today for me, thank you
    Emergency Fund    £400.37 / £1,500

    1 Apr 25 Debt -£26,849.91 Mortgage -£154,088.67
  • oceandreamer
    oceandreamer Posts: 677 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    1/10 please Cathybird
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 16,044 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 2 April at 1:44PM
    April AFD challenge 2025

    7 days = image

    14 days = image

    21 days = image

    28 days = image

    Target reached = image

    Target beaten = image

    Entire month = image 


    April targets


    Arkers TF  

    cathybird 1/21 

    CuppaTea TF 

    Dark Sunday 14 

    doingitanyway 1/20 

    Dryjan 18 

    dustydigger 20 

    LittleMissDetermined TF  

    maggiem 10  

    maman 1/10 

    ManPants 30 

    mrosie 1/15 

    marahouti 1/25 

    NeverendingDMP  

    oceandreamer 1/10 

    PriceySOS 22 

    redofromstart 1/20 

    RobM99 29  

    satchmo1 1/28  

    Season of Mist 28  

    sukeyboo 2/10  

    tiddles 15  

    Watty1 1/20  

    WBF 14  


    To see the updated results for April on phone or tablet, click here :)


    🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞

  • Watty1
    Watty1 Posts: 7,639 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    A grand start to the month 1/20
    Made it to mortgage free but what a muddle that became

    In the event the proverbial hits the fan then co-habitees are better stashing their cash than being mortgage free !!
  • sukeyboo
    sukeyboo Posts: 2,388 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Declaring early for today on 2/10 please cathybird 
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