Debt-free wannabe challenges

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• Make upto £10 a day in August 2017 - everybody most welcome

  Hello and welcome everybody :hello: This is the 120th month of this challenge, which was first started by Batgirl, in September 2007. A link here to the original thread as I am sure some of you are interested to read where it all began. Thanks to Batgirl for starting it, lynnejk and ALL posters, for helping us to keep the…

• NST - Stupendous Sextilis

  Welcome to August’s NST challenge – August was originally the 6th month of the year and was called Sextilis, in 27BC it was renamed August in tribute to the first Roman emperor – Augustus Ceasar. The flowers which represent August are the Poppy and Gladioli – I love these flowers and just the other day saw a purple poppy.…

• Finally facing up

  I have been reading posts for over 10 years without posting but finally I real ready to speak! Because of illness I have been out of work for long periods over the last 15 years and, due to our son's medical needs my wife has also not worked for the last 14 years. We are homeowners and although I am in fairly good…

• August Bring Your Lunch To Work Challenge

  I've not seen this challenge around for a while so I'm going to resurrect it! I'm fairly disciplined about bringing in lunch but haven't always been, three pounds per day spent on a meal deal used to be the order of the day (with a side order of St@rbucks hot chocolate and pastry for breakfast in the morning!) and I still…

• August challenges!

  Hi everyone We'd love to get an August debt free challenge in next week's email so people can start it off at the beginning of the month but our deadline is today. If you have a moment would anyone be able to start some of them today so we can include them? Massive thank you in advance! Andrea :)

• Budget Challenge Personal Spend

  New budget means that clothes, hair and beauty buys should be no more than £100 per month - I will try to stick with this until our move is settled and we know where we are financially going forward. Although, perhaps to many this does not sound like a restricted budget - sadly for me it is. Need to look decent for work…

• Do I legally have to supply a debt collection company with my bank details?

  I'm just over 1,000 pounds in debt and have agreed to pay 100 pound a month, before even taking a payment I was told this was only going to be suitable for 3 months then I would have the pay the rest in full. These horrible people have said they wouldn't contact be until the 28th July to pay my first instalment, now I have…

• what to pay

  hi its my first time posting. i work ft and am trying desperately to save for a mortgage.. very unsucessfully. In the past ive had some bad fortune and honestly been irresponsible with money ive come into some money 6500 and not sure where to start. Do i put this into a savings for the deposit? Do i pay off debts.. * 2100…

• The July NSD Thread!

  Hey folks.Let's see if I'm better at updating this month!