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NEW - pay off £20,000 (ish) by Christmas 2009

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  • oo seven pages already! Have put plans in place today to increase payments - made some jewellry to sell and also hopefully going to sell some scrabooking stuff and clean someones house when they move - all will go toward the challenge but wont bear fruit for a while!!
    Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.

  • blu2u
    blu2u Posts: 18 Forumite
    Count me in please - £11000 to clear all my debts.
  • Count me in too please! Have been lurking for such a long time and this is my first post. Me and my fiance have just agreed that we want to get rid of as much debt as possible before we get married in 2010 and this challenge looks like it may provide the right motivation. Thanks!

    We'll have a good go at £20,000!
  • Yay, first lot of pymts come off tmrw and are showing online now so have amended my signature accordingly, £786.59 which sounds a lot but includes paying off hs overdraft with our savings cos he's cloing the account tmrw so we're starting afresh. So, only £9213.41 to go! Good luck everyone!
    Total Debt (27th Nov 08) £16,707.03 Now £5,102.72
    Debt Free Date [strike]Nov 2012[/strike] August 2011
  • taxi73
    taxi73 Posts: 20,815 Forumite
    Great to see loads of new joiners..this is going to be a biggie.Good luck everyone.May the force of MSE be with you all.
  • hypno06
    hypno06 Posts: 32,296 Forumite
    10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I will update all newbies later on. Welcome to the challenge.

    The "1st month" direct debits have gone out, so my debt has reduced by £774.71 today......a good start!
    Successful women can still have their feet on the ground. They just wear better shoes. (Maud Van de Venne)
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  • 1st Dec bank statement showing £416.22 paid off halifax Overdraft. Wahey!
    LBM 10/08 £12510.74/
  • penguin83
    penguin83 Posts: 4,817 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Morning all - Happy New Challenge day!

    I have paid £150.00 Loan today and another £50.00 payment to Nan so total paid so far is 200.00 - woohoo!

    Off to update sig x x
    Pay Debt by Xmas 16 - 0/12000
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  • First payment to Loan came out today, £552.03, so a good start :D . CC minimum payment tomorrow and some more CC overpayments payments still to go in next week or so, will update as they clear.

    Thanks for this Hypo :T , need something to motivate me. This time I WILL NOT FAIL !!!!!!!!
  • Karmacat
    Karmacat Posts: 39,460 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Have put plans in place today to increase payments - made some jewellry to sell and also hopefully going to sell some scrabooking stuff and clean someones house when they move

    ISOM, what good ideas! I've been looking at hand-knitted dolls' clothes on ebay, wondering if I should try - if I'm sitting in front of the tv sometimes, I want to be doing something, but away from the computer. Where are you going to sell your stuff? Can you let us know where? Or pm me if you want to keep it quiet? I'd love to see.
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