Paid off 7 creditors today!

meerkat2007

chevalier wrote: »

well done on paying off the debt. but also well done on getting a job so soon afterwards. It has been really horrible on here of late, for how many people are being made redundant, so it is great to see a positive story for once
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Thank you - I was fantastically lucky (and I hope that that doesn't come across as boasting - I certainly don't mean it to): conditional job offer back in January, delay in formalities for new job, requests for expressions of interest in voluntary redundancy on the same day as I received confirmation of a firm job offer, and the hugely sympathetic manager who approved my request for VR. It was a once-in-a-lifetime combination of events, the like of which happens to other people, not me - although I guess that this proves that to other people, you are also "other people"!

meerkat2007

Hollyberry wrote: »

Wow meerkat, that's excellent news. :T :j

Congratulations on the new job and getting rid of all those creditors. Glad to hear that the new colleagues are great too; that makes work a whole lot better.

Thank you - the difference in the spreadsheet now is incredible. It also means that I can absorb the drop in pay to the extent that I will actually have more money in my pocket and still be able to overpay on the mortgage slightly.

meerkat2007

Coveredinbees!!!! wrote: »

Getting a job straight away deserves a medal in the current climate, well done.

Well, it was a special combination of cicumstances: I got the conditional job offer back in January, then a form got lost and delayed the formalities to make it a firm offer, until the day the email came out about expressions of interest in VR. Seconds after the email arrived, I received a phone call to say that the conditional offer was being made permanent. I didn't dare believe that it would all work out in my favour, but it did.

I sill can't really believe it, but then I look at the spreadsheet, and just today, I deleted all those creditors from the list of payees in my online banking! :j

lillibet_dripping

cashless_wonder - I wonder where the 'rent-a-mob' came from:rotfl:
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