"harry" wrote in message
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On Dec 27, 2:13 pm, Baz wrote:
harry wrote
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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.

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Mike

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