The big challenge - pay off £20k by Christmas 2010

taxi73

Another £20 into savings

Earthstrong

Hi all

Haven't posted for a while but have paid towards savings and debt a total of £980.00. My usual payments have gone towards my tax bill and now have to start paying my student loan. Hope everyone is doing ok?

mel19632

Well its the of the month and the obligatory transfer to savings.

this month we have saved/paid off (as still have my work loan o/s, but its 0% so no incentive to pay off quicker!) £2,375.

Crept over the target for the year, but we are still saving like mad as OH business will be launching in the new year! We have paid over £2k towards this already, so techincally we should have paid off an extra £2,093 but i'm not counting it...

Hope everyone has had a good month!

total for challenge to date: £25,899

taxi73

Well done everyone...have lost track of my totals for the year...as paid off lots of debt followed by savings.

maybe about £60k

have put another £156 in savings today

mel19632

taxi73 wrote: »

Well done everyone...have lost track of my totals for the year...as paid off lots of debt followed by savings.

maybe about £60k

have put another £156 in savings today

= INCREDIBLE!

i hope you are well taxi - i must admit i have not been on MSE that regularly and have lost track of your diary

taxi73

Thanks Mel not too bad...had the 5th chemo on wednesday and will have the last chemo 17th november..followed by a month break followed by 3 weeks of daily radiotherapy...then can concentrate on getting fit and healthy again...

Am not thinking of going back to work though for a long while if at all but will decide that in the future.

gailey_2

taxi73 wrote: »

Thanks Mel not too bad...had the 5th chemo on wednesday and will have the last chemo 17th november..followed by a month break followed by 3 weeks of daily radiotherapy...then can concentrate on getting fit and healthy again...

Am not thinking of going back to work though for a long while if at all but will decide that in the future.

Glad you getting better taxi.

wow 60k in a year is huge amount?
How did you do it?

paid another 107 yesterday to barclaycard and 40 Lloyds loan- so off to ammend sig.

paid inland revenue cheque into bank account now working out what payments to make thinking making 2-3months worth of payments to everyone to give me some breathing space.

sarahs999

Just paid a bit more off my Tesco clubcard, but don't count that as part of my total (complicated to explain!). Still, it's all less money owed.

madmich666

Hello all,

I've not posted on here (or looked at the site since February because I've pretty much been hiding from my debts. As my son has just arrived (on 10/10/10) I now need to review my finances and get sorted. I am now reviewing savings on car insurance, electric etc and benefits.

I will say that I have still been paying my debts and have paid a few of the smaller ones off :T but now that my little monster has arrived it has spured me on to get sorted again.

I will be back on here in the next day or two with an updated signature and update of what I have paid off so far this year. Plus I really could do with reading through the thread again which will help spur me on to do this and help keep me on the dfw wagon.

Keep up the good work everyone

Mich xx

taxi73

congrats on the birth of your son xxx