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Heavily in Debt!!!!! Advice please UPDATE

Morning all,

Things were going quite well until I just looked at the joint bank account balance - £2500 overdrawn but all bills are paid and I get paid this week and hubby will pay his weekly dose by friday.

I have been off work this month with a fractured knee cap so no 2nd or 3rd job wages coming in - my main job luckily boosts up the ssp pay to full pay!!!!

Anyway, bills are still being paid and at the weekend I did a couple of bootsales with other members of the family and and got £215 on sat, and £275 on sun (£490 split 5 ways - nearly £100 each!) ;0

Husbands bank account which was frozen at £3,500 DR is now only £1,700 DR ;)

We decided not to remortgage cos that to us would just be shifting the debt and not dealing with it - although no predudice to people who do remortgage, we have done it before but soon racked the debts up again!

Any mse's cheers for all the advice I have been recieving. ;););)
😁

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  • bluezone
    bluezone Posts: 772 Forumite
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    Oh and forgot - Just rented out the spare double room for £60 per week to one of the girls from the pub :0 :)
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  • black-saturn
    black-saturn Posts: 13,937 Forumite
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    Well done. Glad you have taken on some of our tips.

    Make sure you keep up with the boot sales and have a good sort out of stuff about once every 6 months. Another tip is don't do the boot sale with someone else, then you won't have to split the cost.
    2008 Comping Challenge
    Won so far - £3010 Needed - £230
    Debt free since Oct 2004
  • Big pat on the back! Well Done! Keep it up.
  • Well done Bluezone, was wondering how you were getting on! :D
    Mortgage-free wannabe!
  • well done and its nice to see someone fighting it.....keep going!!!



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