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Inspired by others.........

I have not ventured into this part of the board before but reading everyone elses storys of there debts it is an inspiration to sort my overdraft out.

I have an overdraft of £800.

But i have a massive amount of outgoings each month but there is a spare £200 quid after we paid for everything including food and petrol for cars etc. That figure is not including overtime.

My outgoings £1890 approx

My income is £2100 not including over time. £32k a year between us. May sound like alot but with a mortgage of £121k and payments of £800 a month its hard going.i

So I am going to transfer money into my ISA of £50 a month until there is enough to clear my overdraft off. We have decided to put our holiday for next year on hold until we clear overdraft as this is how we got into it orignally for extra cash for holiday.
£10 a day - Sept 08 £245/£300

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  • Good idea Nick-and welcome to DFW!
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  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
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    How about using your £10 a day money as "holiday money" - that way you can still have a holiday without incurring any extra debt!
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  • hypno06 wrote: »
    How about using your £10 a day money as "holiday money" - that way you can still have a holiday without incurring any extra debt!

    good idea thanks. This money will be for my daughters birthday we are off to alton towers for 3 days.
    £10 a day - Sept 08 £245/£300
  • Horace
    Horace Posts: 14,426 Forumite
    Hi Nick, welcome to DFW

    How about posting your SOA? Look here https://www.makesenseofcards.com/soacalc.html - there is a button there to configure it to MSE.

    If you list everything then we can see where you are overspending and advise accordingly.
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