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What are your goals???
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My goals:
1 - Claim back the £360 Egg have taken from me in credit card charges before Xmas (1st letter asking for it back has gone out today - so it's definitely achievable);
2 - Awaiting the Adjudictor's decision in my case against Sainsburys for their dubious CCA and miss-sold PPI (if successful, I should be able to close off this account too in late 08 / early 09);
3 - Touch Jose Mourinho in a completely inappropriate way at some point in life.Almost debt-free, but certainly even with the Banks!0 -
Right my aims....
short term get £3,600 to fill my isa in aprils i need £1,000 more to so this so it looks possible!!
ok long term
-Find a job i love that pays loads
- buy a house
- find a good man to spend the rest of my life with
- Have 3 more kids (ish):j Proud mum to Jade age 10 years and Baby Ellie born Christmas Day:eek: with a broke heart
Proven to be a little fighter and battling on with her heart condition :j
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I aim to, Clear unsecured debt asap. Hopefully for the start of 2010. Then sell up and buy a 4 bed detatched house. Overpay mortgage as much as I can and maybe have abouted child around 2013.MF aim 10th December 2020 :j:eek:MFW 2012 no86 OP 0/2000
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i just love reading peoples goals:)
mine are:
- be debt free (again) by march 2009
- save for flat deposit for 5 years
- buy flat in 2014 and rent out for another 8 years (youngest will then be 18)
- take an amazing holiday to disneyland in 2011 with my four sproglets courtesy of clubcard
- continue to save up until i move in to flat overpaying on mortgage every month and setting aside some for savings too.
- become MF and FI by the time I am 50:) (im 35 now)
- travel and volunteerNovember NSD's - 70 -
Ooh this is a good thread

Okay my goals are:- Stick to the DMP (current DFD October 2012)
- Bring our debt free date forward
- Start a family once debt free
- Buy our own house once debt free
- Live a happy life with my partner

:heart: Think happy & you'll be happy :heart:
I :heart2: my doggies
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Great thread.
1. Debt free by 2011.
2. Mortgage free by 2026.
3. Retire 2026.
4. Live in a rural cottage, close to the sea, with a wonderful man, making love and bread!!!LBM 10/08 £12510.74/0 -
I aim to get to the bottom of our ironing pile and to clear my dining room :rolleyes:Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)Life begins at the end of your comfort zone (Neale Donald Walsch)0
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I aim to:
clear my credit card by the end of 2008
Clear my overdraft in the first part of 2009
Save up enough to cover a years worth of loan payments, or perhaps pay the whole thing off
Save like crazy, then...
Move to Australia for a year in 2010, safe in the knowledge I am in a secure position financially :j
After that, who knows. I'll be such a money saving expert by then that hopefully I can start saving for a house deposit!Debt at LBM (17/10/08) £5727.61 Debt free date 31/08/090 -
I am to:
Get my mortgage increased to pay of the loan and CD deck loan
Get married (next june!)
Complete my degree and get a good job
Make babies
Debt Then 06.07 - £11,000 - Debt Now £0.00
DFD Aug 20110 -
I aim to:
Pay off all my debts by April 2010 (snowball currently says 2014)
Start overpaying on my mortgage
Have a baby
Buy land in Northern Spain
Move to Northern Spain
Become mortgage fee
Travel
Do voluntary work in South America
Great thread by the way!Total (Aug 19):€58,567 Now:€26,947
DFD:Nov 22/June 22
Mortgage: €199,712
MFD: March 2042/July 20340
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