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Steadily climbing the mountain, enjoying the view along the way
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Oh …. ☹️
I’m still very ‘green’ at this …
Wanna get out of this one. Will have to ask 1nvest 3ngine how to switch to something else …
KK
As at 18.08.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £211,813
- OPs to mortgage = £19,809 Estd. interest saved = £10,180 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 66 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 10th September.
Produce tracker: £315 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
OMG …! What have MSE done to the bookmarked threads page …?? it’s awful! 😳☹️😢
Anyhoo ….
Since finishing work today:
Brought work home with me for the weekend as next week is going to be a car crash so I need to get ahead. Fortunately it is a topic I’m interested in 😉
Changed my library books
With Mr KK’s help, wrangled three loads of washing.
Made a batch of work soup.
Made a savoury flan with pease pudding base, this time with fried off mushrooms and onions - looking forward to seeing what that does to the texture and taste 😊Hacked back a messy bit of veg patch and two big bags of HM compost to that area, ready for relocating broad beans and planting some chard that need a home 😊. Got to 11K steps 😊👏
If anyone sees Chloe, please could you give her a nudge in the direction of home? Mr KK is away, so I have full responsibility and I haven’t seen her yet, since I got home at 1.30pm …
Edit: Guess who’s just appeared and asked for tea! 😊❤️ You lot are magic! 🤩KK
As at 18.08.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £211,813
- OPs to mortgage = £19,809 Estd. interest saved = £10,180 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 66 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 10th September.
Produce tracker: £315 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.11 -
I was wondering if I'd done something to the bookmarks. Completely un-understandable
22: 3🏅 4⭐ 23: 5🏅 6 ⭐ 24 1🏅 2⭐ 25 🏅 🥈2⭐ 26 🥈 Never save something for a special occasion. Every day is a special occasion. The diff between what you were yesterday and what you'll be tomorrow is what you do today Well organised clutter is still clutter - Joshua Becker If youre not already using a thing you won't start using it more by shoving it in a cupboard- AJMoney The barrier standing between you & what youre truly capable of isnt lack of info, ideas or techniques. The secret is 'do it'4 -
Totally agree , new bookmark page is awful. Having to scroll through all those that I follow to see if it’s been updated🤬
Declutter 1865/ 2026
books read 15in 2026
£320 🥳 funpot
🐞change pot £0
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I see the list is in order of recently created. You can change it to recently commented but each time you go back in it goes back to recently created 🤬
22: 3🏅 4⭐ 23: 5🏅 6 ⭐ 24 1🏅 2⭐ 25 🏅 🥈2⭐ 26 🥈 Never save something for a special occasion. Every day is a special occasion. The diff between what you were yesterday and what you'll be tomorrow is what you do today Well organised clutter is still clutter - Joshua Becker If youre not already using a thing you won't start using it more by shoving it in a cupboard- AJMoney The barrier standing between you & what youre truly capable of isnt lack of info, ideas or techniques. The secret is 'do it'4 -
That’s exactly what I was going to say.
Not sure what having the first four lines or so of everyone’s opening post visible is meant to achieve either 🤷♀️KK
As at 18.08.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £211,813
- OPs to mortgage = £19,809 Estd. interest saved = £10,180 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 66 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 10th September.
Produce tracker: £315 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.5 -
@PennysIntoPounds has set up a feedback thread here:
KK
As at 18.08.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £211,813
- OPs to mortgage = £19,809 Estd. interest saved = £10,180 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 66 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 10th September.
Produce tracker: £315 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.3 -
Just when a screaming, blue haired, decapitated head emoji would have been appropriate !
4/10/25Three Years Mortgage Free Yay!
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No Turtle gets left behind.[/b]
******PROUD MEMBER OF THE TOFU EATING COALITION OF CHAOS !!!******5 -
I really miss that emoji!
I've been mortgage free once, so let's do it again!
Starting balance March 26 £191,274.534 -
I thought it was me !! I thought I had messed up the settings…indeed awful so I reminded myself this place is full of lovely helpful people and it is free of ads and free to use ..and I'll try to get used to it.
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 !!7
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