On Dec 27, 2:13*pm, Baz wrote:
harry wrote :



You certainly want to pay it off as fast as poss. * Interest rates are
bound to go up soonish. *You often see free freezers on these
"freecycle" sites.
However you should examine your freezer contents carefully. They can
soon get filled with trash. *The main reason for big freezer capacity
is if you grow your own veg/fruit/etc. *You need to use freezer stuff
in rotation, difficult if it's a chest type.

harry, you are exactly right in what you say.
Things have happened in the last 3 years to us which we never could have
foreseen. We took this house and thought we were safe in the fact that both
of us had a good income, in fact we were able to put more money away than
we expended so paid sometimes double the monthly mortgage, a couple of
times we almost emptied our savings account to spur things along.

The freezer issue annoys me because we have 2(an upright and a chest) and
OH and me freeze everything from the garden we can which is surpluss, put a
date on it, everything a person would need to know. What happens? After a
get-together with the family the chest freezer looks like an explosion at a
Hannibal Lecter reunion. Difficult? *******g impossible.
The upright is different though, because it's easier to make the same mess
but you can stand up while you do it.
I know it's not done on purpose but why oh why not take the oldest out? and
if they are not so good *******g ask.

Moaning over and i'm glad I got it off my chest.(no pun)
Baz

Heh!Heh! We have the same problem. Every so often we have a purge and
chuck out the ten-year-old peas. It helps if you have some suspended
baskets. But there's no such thing as total self sufficiency.

I have always bought duff houses and done them up. Our first house
cost £400 in 1970. My last house cost £10,000 in solicitor and estate
agent's fees alone (and that was a downsize). Got out just in time I
think.
The plan is to upsize when houses are cheap and downsize when they are
expensive. So the last move was a downsize. The problem is where to
invest the difference these day as someone else was saying.
There is a plot to encourage people to take their money and invest it
in the stockmarket HehHeh. The ******* bankers are trying to wring
the last drop of money from us. I won't be falling for that one.
They have stolen our past, present and future now they want more.