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SB2015 said:
Very great day for celebrations @Anitram.

I remember after the first year of our mortgage, also at 15% interest rate, we reckoned we might possibly own the letter box!! We kept our payments the same as the interest rates dropped, o paid it off a little more quickly, and definitely celebrated when it was all paid off.

Celebrate well
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I remember when we paid off our mortgage, I was only 46, we sold our big house and downsized as we knew our endowment wouldn’t pay off the outstanding amount. We were caught in the high interest on mortgage payments, endowments that were a terrible investment and then when we paid it all off and had money to spare the interest rates plummeted and have stayed low ever since. Pretty rubbish really but am very Happy our home is our own. Congratulations @Anitram
 
Anitram said:
I lived with my grandparents from the age of 11 and I remember that on paydays my grandad would come home from work and hand his pay packet to my gran who would open it, take out some money and give it to him, and keep the rest. I have no idea how much his weekly allowance was.
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The funniest thing was mum used to take money from the joint account to buy dad presents - never could get my head around that one!
 
Just got my tesco delivery & thank goodness I FINALLY got vitamin D! 🙂 My fingers are quite bad now & the typing one is getting thick & callused from already peeled underneath, scabbed over & re peeling again: all been needing deeper finger pricks for testing; got 3 packs of 96 each. But, only noticed after, how annoying, that 1 pack is for 400mg instead of 1000mg & the funny thing is it’s not even available on their website: 1000mg is the normal dose & there’s also 2000 & 3000 for people with deficiencies, I suppose; I just needed normal for getting less sunshine in lockdown! So, I don’t know what 400mg is for? I’ll have to contact them for a refund for that one but, I’ve got more than 6 months supply, now, from the 2 packs & taken one right now to get my fingers back to normal as soon as possible!😳
 
Anitram said:
Same here. We should have paid it off in 2016 but we were warned a few years beforehand that our endowments were going to fall well short, so we decided to remortgage on a capital repayment basis but had to extend the term. Anyway, we made it in the end.
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The promises made with endowments were awful weren’t they. We decided to downsize rather than remortgage as my daughter was moving into her own place and we used to have students so had a big 5 bed house and really there were only 3 of us left. The feeling of relief not having a mortgage, not cleaning and cooking for England and not having to have students was immense. Don’t regret it for a second. Feel sorry for the young ones now, such as my son who can’t get on the property ladder as the prices in Brighton are just so high even for the tiniest place. We can’t help him out as our money is tied up in the house, not enough to make a dent in what he would need anyway.
 
@SueEK and anyone else who is interested it wasn’t too awful, bloods were 8.0 just before, Libre catches 11.0 as my highest reading and then was 8.4 come 11:24 when I tested for my dinner, looks like it can be on the menu xx
 
Hello it was 5.1 for me this morning but on the back of a night shift!
Libre 2 what a revelation! I am 10 days in and have got the hang of it! It’s revolutionised breakfast ( you are not the only one going breakfast crazy @Kaylz )
Humalog is definitely a slow starter so I am now having my breakfast insulin about 45 mins sooner than I was doing and it’s made my levels start in a great place each day. It’s made my night shifts better as well as I can scan and get back into to bed quickly so having more sleep! The alarms are great for me as when I go high I tend not to catch it until I feel terrible! Been under a lot of emotional stress recently as my beautiful son’s Dad died last week at 53 after a brief but brave fight against bowel cancer. and it’s helped me navigate what has been a roller coaster of blood sugars.
Glad I have paid off my mortgage because I might need the money to self fund for a bit until I can convince the health authority it’s the best thing since sliced bread! Or Bergen!!
I was talking to my sons about mortgages and house prices and mentioned my first house cost as much as their current cars!! I feel really old!!!
Nice to have you back @KARNAK the level of innuendo has dropped without you! Sara x
 
@SaraKaya sorry to hear that

It would be well worth getting in touch and asking if they could allow you it on prescription, there is absolutely no way I could afford to self fund so I was glad I got mines xx
 
@SaraKaya sounds like the libre2 is a force to be reckoned with. If you were using the old libre have you found the accuracy to be as reliable as they say? I have 4 more old sensors to use before I can start mine and I'm just reveling in the fact I'll be able to go to bed without stressing about overnight BGs.

Also very sorry to hear of your sad news. I hope both you and your son are doing okay.
 
Kaylz said:
@SueEK and anyone else who is interested it wasn’t too awful, bloods were 8.0 just before, Libre catches 11.0 as my highest reading and then was 8.4 come 11:24 when I tested for my dinner, looks like it can be on the menu xx
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That’s really good, another addition to a small menu is definitely a bonus. Hope it encourages you to try something else at a later date xx
 
Thanks @Kaylz, @Spozkins and @Michael12421 foe your kind thoughts.
I am going to try and evidence that my control is so much better with the libre (my glucose meter strips are £50 a month retail so it’s not such a huge leap is it) so I am only really costing them £50 more a month if the prescribe-the libre and the long term benefits of keeping me healthy mean I am a cheaper prospect for the NHS!!
The alarms are great and it just gives you that piece of mind, it came at the right time for me and made me realise how ‘hard’ I was finding it. Worse case scenario if they don’t prescribe I know what I am getting for Christmas and birthday presents for the rest of my days!
 
HenryBennett said:
True story.
Took out our first mortgage in 1981 and there was a period of a few months later in the 80’s when the interest rate went up to 15%!
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We took out our first mortgage in 1979, it was £69 per month. In that period you mentioned, it went up to £102!
 
Anitram said:
Same here. We should have paid it off in 2016 but we were warned a few years beforehand that our endowments were going to fall well short, so we decided to remortgage on a capital repayment basis but had to extend the term. Anyway, we made it in the end.
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That’s what we did too, those endowment mortgages were a rip off weren’t they? We changed to repayment and when we retired we paid it off out of the lump sum of pension Mr Eggy got. Otherwise we would still be paying ours until 2027.
 
I've just logged another sexual assault complaint via the Met Police website.
I'm not so certain of the timescale for this one but I do know his name, where he used to drink and hang out, roughly where he lived and that he attempted to rape me.

How's your Wednesday going?
 
And if I’ve been good can I get away with one of these do ya think?

And no I don’t mean the builder!

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Sounds and looks good @ColinUK , the sandwich not the builder. Never had salt beef, but sounds tasty. Good for you for reporting the assault.
 
Anitram said:
Same here. We should have paid it off in 2016 but we were warned a few years beforehand that our endowments were going to fall well short, so we decided to remortgage on a capital repayment basis but had to extend the term. Anyway, we made it in the end.
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When we bought our first house, we just couldn’t afford the endowment mortgage.
It proved to be a benefit in the end and allowed to us to pay it all off earlier.
Mind you we haven’t moved much. In all our time we looked at two houses and bought two houses.
 
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