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My 2 year battle to try to keep our home
I have had a crazy 2021. I thought it started well but it turns out I know nothing! My (soon to be ex-) husband had been having an affair with my daughter’s friends mum so I have been attempting to rock the single mum of 3 life since April. Our finances were on a knife edge together and we lived slightly beyond our means.…
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dealing, not feelings... (getting past the overwhelm)
Hello all, Writing here to keep me accountable. Not expecting anyone to read it! This is my first post and a first step to dealing with debt and money mistakes I've been trying to push away for many years. I have had many false starts at "dealing" with things, and stumbled every time. I know from reading other people's…
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Curbing the ridiculous
So, this is my new diary. About me: 43, married with 2 very young DC. Not currently in any debt but was in debt for years and years due to various factors which are set out at the start of my other diary. Stupidly sold our family home last year with nothing to go to. Been living in abysmal rented accommodation with no…
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Give me some motivation! Feeling embarrassed and down about debt!
Posting here to finally face the music. My lightbulb moment has been having my baby girl. We borrowed money on credit cards and overdrafts to do up our home, and I’ve since had 6 months of crippling maternity pay. I’m losing sleep now over our debt. We’re able to make the payments on all our debts, and we’re going to start…
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Single mum to 5, striving for debt free life
Hello lovely people, The time has come for me to post and bare all about my life and journey to becoming debt free. I think I need this to help me heal my soul and heart as much as keeping me on track to become debt free. I think I will enjoy reading back on this journey in the months and years to come. I have been paying…
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Debt in Dizzyland
So.....this will be my diary of debt reduction, income increase and lifestyle change. I'm fighting a relentless tide of debt and money issues, despite having a good family income. I've come to the realisation that the situation will only becoming increasingly dire if we just totter on as we are currently doing, so after a…
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Diary of a not so poor person aged 48 1/2
So here we are then... my new shiny diary which will help me through the next stage of things financial and beyond. im gonna write about my relocation to france, the sale of the old house, the feelings now that the debt has gone and how we plan to move on as a debt free family at last. :)
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A diary to hold me accountable…..
I’ve been an avid reader of these diaries for years, but it’s time to create my own one in order to hold myself accountable for my debt busting. I am a self employed single mum of 3 and the pandemic had a massive knock on with my finances and I just about clung on. I had to move as well in 2020 which also created some…
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I wish my bank account filled as fast as the washing basket
I found out during my final year at uni that I was pregnant. Being students our money was stretched, by the time I graduated she was one month old. The first loan came in when we decided to move back home, and this was in the form of Amigo as no one else would touch us. Without it we couldn’t have afforded the deposit, and…
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Mumof3.12kindebt .. dfw again ! - 15 dec 2020
Hello my beautiful diary friends. Well here we are again. Df wannabes for a second time. Because its a second time I know we can do it. We just need to refocus and change our mindset. Links to previous diaries (In order)…
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The Secret of Getting Ahead is Getting Started
"The Secret of Getting Ahead is Getting Started" Mark Twain, I'm getting started right now! Been reading some diaries and feeling motivated to start one of my own and aim to pay off my debts by Dec 2021. My job is uncertain and there is a chance I will be made redundant in 2020 once Brexit is finalised so I may be able to…
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About time I sorted myself out
Hello everyone! I have been lurking on the MSE forums for a few years now, knowing I should get stuck in but not ever getting round to doing it. I've decided that 2018 is the year I get on top of my debts - which have been spiralling out of control for the past few years. I've always been terrible with money - I took out…
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A Year in the Life of...
Out with the old and in with the new. I'm starting this new diary to document my financial 2020, including some blethering to connect the dots along the way. This is a follow-on from my previous diary. I plan to document aims and goals for the year, with the overall year goals being: - to have reduced my loan balance to…
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CDEr group advice
Hi all, ill try to be brief. I've got a £350 debt, its for a low emissions charge. I got the charge in November when I started a job, I was the driver, on the 1st night I text the wrong license plate number so the company didn't pay the ulez. I wasn't able to pay the fine because I had just started working and the nature…
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Little bit of Wales; living in sunny Surrey
Hello, Thought I would start a dairy again as I have been trying to get debt free since I was 26 and I'm now 30. I am currently living in sunny Surrey but spent most of my life in Wales so the price difference is a shock even though I have lived here just over a year. Myself and my partner moved down here so I could follow…
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In years to come I will laugh
Well here I am 49-year-old father of three great kids and married to a
wonderful wife. To everyone around me, I am
a highly successful professional who has my s**t together. I am the go to person when it comes to sensibility and decision making and I spend my life coming up with the logical and pragmatic answers and deal…
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Mrs S…the next chapter (separation and all that comes with it)
I have been on these boards for quite a few years, and rather than continuing my last diary I have decided to start a new one for the next chapter of my life. I mentioned in a previous diary that myself and Mr S separated at the start of 2018. We got back together by the end of that year. We have now made the decision to…
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Debt free diary starts today at £16,763.08
My diary starts today as a 28 year old female with a mortgage, stable job, husband and no children. I don’t have much to show for the debt I have built up. There have been some personal issues that I think may have contributed towards my mindset towards money - but I am fully aware that every stupid decision has been my…
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Its Happening All Over Again
After joining the DFW forum about 8 years ago and starting a DMP with StepChange we really got ourselves to a good place. This was because we were very firm with our spending but also because our income increased making it easier to target our debt. Since December last year our income decreased back to pre 2015 levels but…
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Chase Round Up - Not getting 5% interest
I’ve searched forum and can’t see my exact issue. Apologies if I’ve missed it though of course. I have a round up account with Chase Bank which is supposed to pay 5% interest. Balance for June roundup was £15ish at the beginning of June. But I received 5p in interest from Chase for the month of June. I believe this should…
