Pay off Your Mortgage In 2 Years......BBC2 Now!!

[Lucycat]

Do you rememeber the bloke who made those fabulous stoves out of old gas bottles? It's a follow up now....

So did they do it?

Here is their website

aren't they cute?

I missed the end (dd1 being sick) what happened?

oh no your poor dd

they did it!

mortgage paid off, all £105k of it in 2 years wow!

Wow!
His stoves were great though!

It didn't include their tax bill and they lived on absolutely NOTHING! How did they manage to live on, I think,£5K? My supermarket shopping must come to at least that! And then there is the mortgage...

How did they do it??

Main thing was their stoves and having a bloke that nagged everythime they did something that involved spending money or not making money

But say their mortgage was £105K - did they actually earn that much in the 2 years? Otherwise, how did they pay it off?

We wouldn't even earn the value of our outstanding mortgage in 2 years (yes, it's huge!!).

Yes, they had orders worth about £110K for the stoves, iirc. Mind you, I wonder if he could make that many in the time.

Oh right, so like you said they lived on £5K - er, how?!

I can never do the maths on these programmes. It looks good on the surface but doesn't add up e.g. tax bills.

Like those makeover programmes which do up houses and gardens so cheaply and don't bother to factor in how many hundreds of pounds a day you'll be charged by your builder for a spotty 16yo labourer!

They had the most fantastic lifestyle, iirc, and I'm sure someone will correct me but they were a surfing family, who brought their 2 boys up in a camper van, he made those fantastic stoves, but just 2 a year, enough money to live on and go surfing and she taught yoga....they ate lots of nettle soup and I was soooooo of their whole lifestyle.

They were really uncommercial(?) and I'm really pleased that they managed to make so much money.

oh and they were paying their mortgage off over 35 years.

I'm really pleased that they managed to do it. I think they were my favourite family out of the entire series. They just all seemed so happy together and genuinely nice people.

Looking forward to seeing how the Cliff Richard impersonator did now though!