Get yourself a 'Mortgage Pig'

halloweenqueen_2

Thanks for all the good wishes! Feeling a bit shaky still but you have to battle on!!!
Glad to meet Cuthbert!! Looking forward to the naming ceremony for mrs deadlines piggy!!
Had a wonderful piece of news today, from Martins piece about council tax and are you paying more than your neighbours I found that I was in a higher band than the two similar properties either side, well within 2 months they have rebanded me and I am going to get a rebate of what I have overpaid for about 10 years! This year I would have overpaid by £139. My council tax is going to drop about £16 a month (hmmn guess where thats going!!), but I've overpaid a little each month so I finished at the end of the year instead of having a payment in january, so I only will owe a couple of hundred to finish this year off. So although this month hasn't been as productive as I'd liked, in another way it has been fantastic. I know I shouldn't have been charged it in the first place but unless I belonged to this site I wouldn't have known, getting it back and would still be overpaying!

comping_cat

Glad you are feeling better HQ, and wonderful news about your council tax!!!!
Im not doing that well with the mortgage pig this month, but have managed to put another £15 in today, so better than nothing!!!!!!

gallygirl

HQ, sorry you're not feeling too good. Great news about the council tax though!

I have just rekkied up for the month:
DS's housekeeping 80
quidco 97
mystery shopping 36
peefer 50 (yes, did round it up!!!!)
refund from smile 55
extra from salary 442
work night out allowances 35
odds & sods 127
grand total 922:j :j :j :j

Also, OH has not paid towards mortgage this month (is ok, honest!), so I have over 300 to knock off my "arrears" to him...... total debt reduction of 1234...... new balance is.....
9996.25:j :j :j :j :j (then the mortgage to tackle but lets sort this one 1st)

Although this month is exceptional and won't be repeated am obv v chuffed tonight! Well done everyone else!

comping_cat

WELL DONE ali007, that is a great month work!!!!

kiwi88_2

Glad you're feeling better HQ Can't believe you manage to save that amount a month and regularly :T

Great month ali007 way to go :beer:

Being a newbie I can only dream of those amounts at the moment :rotfl:

gallygirl

kiwi88 wrote:

Great month ali007 way to go :beer:

Being a newbie I can only dream of those amounts at the moment :rotfl:

yes, bl**dy long way to go

halloweenqueen_2

Thanks everyone - I missed not being on here so much, but it made me dizzy! You've done really well ali - fantastic total! I'm hoping to get my council tax money back in 2-4 weeks so hopefully will be a good october! probably november though!
Thanks catowen, £15 will rack up quite abit when you add on all the interest you've saved - well thats what I think when I'm banking a £2.80 ebay cheque!! i managed to make £50 on ebay this month, about a third of what I would of liked but hust wasn't up to it, so I just think my poll tax letter was this months contribution!!
Found some books in the loft I'd forgooten about - all boxed up, so will list them on amazon and see what happens. I always think its nice little surprise to get the amazon email to say you've sold a book! I must be going daft in my old age!

kiwi88_2

Ok here's Septembers total...

Percy first. He's been hungry but we haven't fed him very well so we will keep feeding him till he's full but he ate £23.75

Sept Grocery challenge £60 under allocated budget and budget £120 under what we normally spend so total saving £180 :T

Pigsbank points 3870 and awaiting more so £40 money off vouchers :T

Now the bad news Fridge/Freezer repair £140 :eek:

Have signed up for Oct grocery challenge and hope to save the same but new tumble dryer needed :eek:

I will go through money/points back site though and check compare price sites though so hope to save a bit on the purchase

EDIT forgot to say earned lots of extra Tescos points when shopping so will be looking at the Clubcard deal offers for Christmas pressies

pink_fairy_7

Hello all MFW's. £53.96 for us in September. Going to try for £100 in October.
I hope that you are better HQ.

pink fairy x

halloweenqueen_2

Yes thanks pink farily a lot better now, dizziness comes and goes but still got a blocked nose and bit deaf so par for the course I think!!
Well I totalled over £600 hoping for more of the same for this month, my target was to get to 73K or less by the end of this year and I think I'm on target to do that - really pleased with that! Hoping to get it down to 60K by the end of next year!