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Stoozing - How well did you do?
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strumpet
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So here we are at the beginning of another tax year.
But if you were stoozing during 2008/9 tax year, you should now have had your interest calculated!!! So how did you do?
I have been stoozing since Sept 2007 on my Halifax Credit Card / Halifax ISA and during the tax year 2008/9, I earned £126.66 interest on Halifax's money. Added to the £30.69 I earned in 2007/8 tax year, this makes a combined total of :T:j£157.35:j:T across the 15 month interest free period on the card.
How did you do?
But if you were stoozing during 2008/9 tax year, you should now have had your interest calculated!!! So how did you do?
I have been stoozing since Sept 2007 on my Halifax Credit Card / Halifax ISA and during the tax year 2008/9, I earned £126.66 interest on Halifax's money. Added to the £30.69 I earned in 2007/8 tax year, this makes a combined total of :T:j£157.35:j:T across the 15 month interest free period on the card.
How did you do?
NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM!
Nov Grocery Challenge: £0.00 / £150.00Horace & Strumpet's NSD Challenge (Nov): 0/8
£2 Savers Club #088: £200 since 01/09/2008 (£0 to bank) (Banked £200)
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Don't do financial years, do calendar years instead
Last year total was £ 1,953.
2008 results posting on the stoozing website (supported by MSE) at http://www.stoozing.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1231188233"A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." - Groucho Marx0 -
I've made around £800 in 18 months. I'm really pleased with that.
It's being used to upgrade my flight to Florida to premium economy. I know I could use it for something sensible, but we decided that it would be nice to use it for something frivilous instead!0 -
Don't do financial years, do calendar years instead
Last year total was £ 1,953.
2008 results posting on the stoozing website (supported by MSE) at http://www.stoozing.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1231188233
Great - you did really well. I only do financial years cos that's when the interest is paid.
Are you doing anything with the interest , or just reinvesting?NIL ILLEGITIMUS CARBORUNDUM!Nov Grocery Challenge: £0.00 / £150.00
Horace & Strumpet's NSD Challenge (Nov): 0/8
£2 Savers Club #088: £200 since 01/09/2008 (£0 to bank) (Banked £200)
Slimming World: 15½lbs/21lbs (74%) at end of Week 18 (Target date for 13st: 25/12/2009):dance:0 -
£200 in 12 months. Very happy. This year I'd like to double that!0
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Hi,
Well done to all! I think I'm in line for about 1K, but I find it hard to know precisely as some are still going, and overlap with new applications etc. Also I try and do minimum payments out of my current account to aid the stooz pot.
Do people religiously keep stooz pot away from 'proper' money?
Anyone got a handy spreadsheet that I can enter all the facts into? 0 -
Great - you did really well. I only do financial years cos that's when the interest is paid.
Are you doing anything with the interest , or just reinvesting?
I reinvest the interest back into my stoozepot - get mine paid monthly so I can see how I'm doing month on month to give that extra bit of motivation."A child of five could understand this. Fetch me a child of five." - Groucho Marx0 -
Is this something that can be done in the states just as easily?Hi, we’ve had to remove your signature. If you’re not sure why please read the forum rules or email the forum team if you’re still unsure - MSE Forum Team0
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s.michaels77 wrote: »Is this something that can be done in the states just as easily?
Can you get hold of 0% interest card? And high interest saving account / offset it against mortgage??0 -
Hi,
I am only doing slow stoozing and I am not great at it so far - I should have 3k in my savings account but had to lend my hubby 2k. I get it back over 4 months.
So I earned only about £11 on interest so far..:-((
(this is since October 2008)
But I use M&S 0% on purchases card and on points I had £14 in vouchers for spend and I have another £10 on the way.0 -
knocked my monthly mortgage interest down by 85 - so over the year saved 10200
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