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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 99,549 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

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    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
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  • Brie
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    snugs with a cat!!! marvellous!!!!

    I’m a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Debt Free Wannabe, Old Style Money Saving and Pensions boards.  If you need any help on these boards, do let me know. Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any posts you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button, or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.

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  • Watty1
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    Cats are wonderful. Feral kitten tried sitting on me a few times and gave it up, clearly not part of being a feral. She does however sit very prettily on my desk next to me at work sometimes which is indeed a joy.

    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 !!
  • ladybird1106
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    I can join in briefly with the cat love in as my friend is away, so I’m temp human who is graced with their love.

    Love 🐞

    Declutter 984/2026
    £62.30 saved by growing and eating my own 2026
    books read 5 in 2026
    £185 🥳 funpot
    🐞change pot £39.53
  • greenbee
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    Mine don't sit on laps, but do sit next to me/sleep on my feet/snuggle up beside me/sit on my chest and try to crush the life out of me… and sometimes just sit opposite me and blink at me. We have builders at the moment, so they're extra-clingy (also extra annoying and racing around the house wrestling with each other).

  • Merlin's_Beard
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    Mine doesn't sit with me (I'm a fidget and she hates it), but she will sit on the back of sofa behind my head and completely conk out.

    Start mortgage date: August 2022; Start mortgage amount: £240,999; Original mortgage free date: August 2056
    Current mortgage amount: £224,460.73
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  • KajiKita
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    So much cat love …. 🐈💖 Sweet.

    Well it's nearly the end of the week. I have really crashed this week. I have been so tired (in spite of it being a short week) and I have had the focus of a drifting helium balloon and the motivation of a rock … <sigh>

    I have no great ambitions for this weekend, though it won't start well - have to take my car back to the garage AGAIN after work today, to try and sort out why the heating isn't working (the air con is blisteringly cold - which is 50% of the win, but I need the heater too! 😕I nearly cried … 😭). I rang the garage as soon as I got home last night, as I checked it on the drive home, and they are hoping it is an air lock … Please, please let it be that as I really don't want the whole front of the car taken apart again and having to use their horrible, cramped, heavy steering, loan car again …. (FW-whinge)

    No counselling this week, which is a relief in all honesty. Mr KK is angling after a take away tonight, but if he wants one I might say he can go and get it as I just cannot be …..! (I usually do both the ordering and the going and getting of takeaways, and tbh I just don't fancy one tonight.)

    I have been offered a further 4 weeks of complimentary training, which I have said yes to, even though I am feeling a bit meh about all of that too … Apparently I got my trainer into trouble with his manager because I scored my motivation as a 3/10 - how the hock would I know that?? Ugh …

    All in all I am in a funk I am struggling to get out of. Not sure if I need sympathy or a boot up the whatsit … Getting utterly fed up of being 'here' though.

    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

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  • beanielou
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    Sending ❤️

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    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** in ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.
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