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InaPickle getting out of a pickle!

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  • InaPickle wrote: »
    I've just paid 11p off my CC for the sake of making my calculations easier. If anyone at HSBC looks over my transactions, they will think I'm mad!:rotfl:

    Hey, anything that makes your life easier is a good thing!
    Emergency Fund - £8572.39 / £10,000 :: Mortgage OP 2025 - £
    LISA 24/25 - £3200 / £4000 :: NSD 2025 - 2 / 150 :: Books Read: 1 / 52 :: Decluttering - 4 / 1000
    Engaged 9th December 2010 :: Married 29th October 2015 :: Bought a House 13th January 2017
  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    Hey, anything that makes your life easier is a good thing!

    I should make that my new slogan! ;)
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    edited 19 December 2009 at 7:35PM
    Just back from a Toby Carvery with mum, brother, brother's girlfriend and a friend of the family. The gut-busting roast, followed by sticky toffee pudding both of which were washed down with wine were topped off nicely by just finding out that I have won £12.50 on BB. Result! :j

    EDIT: Naturally that £12.50 is being paid off my CC. *Zooms off to alter signature*.
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • :hello: IP - paying uneven amounts off my CC is exactly what I need to do!

    Well done on the ebay money :T
    1st debt - Next [STRIKE]£583.32[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]£408.71 [/STRIKE] £0 :j
    2nd debt - MBNA - £6,618.52
    First in many many to go - baby steps and all that!
    First lump sum to go - fingers crossed!
    08/06/09 - [STRIKE]£11,497.68[/STRIKE] NOW - £9,757.75
  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    Thanks IMD.

    I've just paid that off my CC and that brings it to £1303.19 which is so heartbreakingly close to getting down into the next thousand that I think I will have to pay £3.20 extra off so as not to make me weep every time I see it. *Zooms off to pay another £3.20 off her CC*
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    ...I've also just realised that the £3.20 I just paid off means that I've paid off the second and only other 'odd' square on my colour in box chart that isn't worth £10 on my 'credit card colour chart'.

    I'm such a geek! :D
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • .... *blink*
    Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
    Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    .... *blink*

    :confused:

    Did you not understand the 'colour chart' to which I refered?* I didn't explain it very well. Basically, it's a spreadsheet with the lines coloured in printed out with each box being worth £10 (except for the odd amounts of money less than £10 in a total so, for example, if I had £119 to pay off, it would be divided into 11 boxes of £10, and 1 box of £9.) So in paying the £12.50 I won, and the extra £3.20 I paid off mean that I could colour in one £10 box and an odd box of £5.69.

    *Puts on best Russian meerkat accent.* Simples!

    Now I just have to get the money to colour in all those other £10 boxes. :rolleyes:

    * I stole the idea from Hypno06.
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

  • OOOOOOOH! I see now. Haha I like it !

    Congratulations :D
    Starting Debt: ~£20,000 01/01/2009. DFD: 20/11/2009 :j
    Do something amazing. GIVE BLOOD.
  • InaPickle
    InaPickle Posts: 5,968 Forumite
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    edited 20 December 2009 at 6:55PM
    I'm glad.

    Lee, I've just looked at your rather impressive signature again and I think you need to remove that embarassed smiley from next to your debt-free date. I think you should have a proud little smiley puffing his chest out. ;) Since there aren't any of those currently available, I suggest that you just but a big cheeesy smiley like so: :D. Shifting the debt you got rid of is no place for embarassment or false modesty, just pride.
    Please call me 'Pickle'
    No More Buying Books: ???
    No More Buying DVDs: ???
    NMB Toiletries ??? and I've gone back for my Masters at the University of Use Ups!
    P
    roud to be dealing with her debts 1198~

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