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  • Ames- Sounds like your doing alot of right things, cant be easy with your condition though! Good on you for actually tackling it though :D ..........youll have to just ban aunty flo for visiting for a while lol!! :p

    I dont know much about that condition, is it similar to Fibromyalgia and ME?
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • Still compiling my debts.....


    .....this is scary stuff!!!!
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • Oh dear Chris! you still adding everything up?

    Its all for the best even if it is momentarily a really !!!! feeling

    (hugs) in case it is worse than you thought xxxx
    Nevertheless she persisted.
  • BTW does your name reflect 'your' passion.....do you like knitting??? cos you could make a killing over christmas selling scarves on a market! :p .....you could prob clear all your debt worries lol :T

    If only that were true :D

    Yes I love knitting but am very slow so far this year I have completed 4 scarves :rotfl:One of which was 2 months late for Christmas last year.
    Debt at lightbulb moment (18 Aug 2009) 30933.95,
    Debt 1 July 2011 £9663.71
    Debt free date[STRIKE]February 2017[/STRIKE] September 2016
  • Cheers Buffy! Appreciated :p ......Looks like its going to be more......oop

    ill have this uploaded this afternoon, its a bit embarassing to admit to :o x

    Knittty - Thats a poor turnover! lol :rotfl:

    Mind you at 3 months a scarf they are quite a high value product lol think of all the love and care gone into them - price them at say £250 a piece and it could be a goer!!! :D:rotfl:
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • 43 days till we commence the '10 in 10' challenge!!!! :j :T
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • OK.............here goes...........I've uploaded my situation info!!!

    :eek:

    And i've not included my student loan as that gets taken as tax - and I dont want to completely scare myself silly!!!! :o
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • Knitty78
    Knitty78 Posts: 213 Forumite
    You have a similar amount to me, it's not that scary when you start getting into it, although I have become obsessed with trying to bring my debt free date forwards.
    Debt at lightbulb moment (18 Aug 2009) 30933.95,
    Debt 1 July 2011 £9663.71
    Debt free date[STRIKE]February 2017[/STRIKE] September 2016
  • Really does worry me :(

    Anyone think its worth seeing if i can get the interest frozen on these through say payplan?

    bearing in mind some of them have been transfered to debt collections/ outside collections teams :S

    Also im going to try and get my charges back from lloyds who were the catalyst for it all- Iv got about £4400 worth of charges they have sent me after I requested them through the data request channels, now thinking about putting together my hardship forms....but so worried they wil throw it out (being lloyds :mad: )

    Also another of my concerns is credit rating....its like terrible!! 400 out of 1000 or something, in the big risk category :eek:

    help! lol

    How is everyone today? x :D
    Virgin Loan - £13,646
    Lloyds O/D - £2,572.59 Halifax Ln - £7,565.07
    Halifax O/D - £346.30 Barclaycard - £315.19
    Halifax CC - £1,163.73 Orange Mob - £976.50
    Council - £300 Total to be rid of: £26,885.38
    '10 in 10' Challenge - Come join the party :rotfl:
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    Hi

    Another old-timer DFW who would love to join the challenge please (not old timer in terms of age!). I have around £30k worth of debt so clearing a third of it next year would be fantastic.

    Roll on January 1st :j

    Emily xx
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