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  • Skint_yet_Again
    Skint_yet_Again Posts: 9,044 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Hung up my suit! Mortgage-free Glee!

    I’m up for a party 🥳 will there be trifle 🤣

    Sorry just a quick question KK how do you quote like that?

    ❤️Mum 2018
    0% credit card £1360 & 0% Car Loan £7500 ~ paid in full JAN 2020 = NOW DEBT FREE 🤗
    House sale OCT 2022 = NOW MORTGAGE FREE 🤗
    House cash purchase completed FEB 2023 🥳🍾 & left work. 🤗

    Retired at 55 & now living off the equity £10k a year

    ❤️Dad 2025

    Previous Savings diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5597938/get-a-grip/p1

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  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 10,088 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    As at 17.04.26:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
    - OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May. 
    Produce tracker: £108 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. 
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 10,088 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic

    At the very bottom of my message now, there should be a quote button, on the far left.

    And yes, always trifle, t’is the rules! 🎉

    KK

    As at 17.04.26:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
    - OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May. 
    Produce tracker: £108 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. 
  • Brewerspride
    Brewerspride Posts: 241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 10,088 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    As at 17.04.26:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
    - OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May. 
    Produce tracker: £108 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. 
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 9,532 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic

    Trifle at a rave?! The mind boggles! 😂😂

    Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days

    'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway


  • Humdinger1
    Humdinger1 Posts: 2,902 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper

    The pudding frenzy? Love Humdinger xx

  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 10,088 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Fifth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    As at 17.04.26:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
    - OPs to mortgage = £18,925 Estd. interest saved = £9,670 to date
    c. 16 months reduction in term
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 31 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 7th May. 
    Produce tracker: £108 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. 
  • skint_spice
    skint_spice Posts: 13,742 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic

    Well done on the weight loss, slow but steady.

    Mortgage OP 2026 £860/2000
    Mortgage balance: £31,763

    Make £50 a month Jan £20, Feb £0, March £31, Apr £20, May 
    Boiler fund £2085/3000

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