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The big challenge - pay off £20k by Christmas 2010
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Just paid £20 off my target there,i know its not much but its a start.Finding it tight coming up 2 Christmas and had my mortgage come out 2day so will be able 2 get properly started with this challenge from 2morrrow onwards!:j0
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Brokeattheminute wrote: »Just paid £20 off my target there,i know its not much but its a start.Finding it tight coming up 2 Christmas and had my mortgage come out 2day so will be able 2 get properly started with this challenge from 2morrrow onwards!:j
Seriously, we need to think about adopting the Tesco slogan: every little DOES help!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!
Proud to be dealing with her debts 1198~
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you're not wrong there Pickle0
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£60.00 mortgage overpayments made today, bizarrely found myself feeling left out with everyone doing well with debt payments so far.Mortgage £25,789.17/£24,918.14/£22,921.47
Pay off £20k by Xmas 2010 - £16,360.000 -
Can I play this one too? I've been totting everything up (gulp). Plan is to clear all the credit and then save up and buy DW a new camera as soon as possible (nice to have a target). This means we are looking at around £12,500 (another gulp) but I'm sure we can do it. DW is doing a lot of overtime at the moment, which should really help.
The breakdown:
Barker and Stonehouse furniture loan 0% £582.90 (Should end 1/5/10)
CSL sofas loan 0% £640 (Should end 23/7/09)
Tesco Mastercard 18%?? £1629.39 (some savings to pay a lot of this off soon:D)
Virgin Mastercard 18%?? £2262.55 (transfer to Abbey 0% imminent)
Halifax Loan (not flexible but can pay early, grrr) £2747.42
Bank of Mum and Dad in Law £3300ish
Nikon D300 (or similar) £1200Pay off £20k (well £12.5k) by December '10 £12,500/£3398.59 = 27%
Furniture loan [STRIKE]£816.06[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%, CSL sofas loan [STRIKE]£640[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%,Tesco Mastercard [STRIKE]£1629.39[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%,
Santander Mastercard [STRIKE]£2262.55[/STRIKE]/£2217.50 = 2%,Halifax Loan [STRIKE]£2747.42[/STRIKE]/£2491.24 =9%
Bank of Mum and Dad in Law [STRIKE]£3300[/STRIKE]/£3160 =4%,
Save for a Nikon D300 (or similar) £1104.580 -
I have signed up to this one and the 10k one, I need every bit of support I can get! I have been fantasizing (when frankly I should go to bed! and or getting a life) about me spending Saturdays getting to the post office on time and counting up my coppers selling stuff on ebay, music magpie etc!
However so far I have read a lot of diaries, whilst sitting on the sofa........
keep up the good inspiring work, I promise after Christmas I will be a force to be reckoned with !
oh and Happy Christmas of course!
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Buffythedebtslayer wrote: »
However so far I have read a lot of diaries, whilst sitting on the sofa........
LOL, I've done exactly the same for the past 3 evenings! Very inspiring!Pay off £20k (well £12.5k) by December '10 £12,500/£3398.59 = 27%
Furniture loan [STRIKE]£816.06[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%, CSL sofas loan [STRIKE]£640[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%,Tesco Mastercard [STRIKE]£1629.39[/STRIKE]/£0 =100%,
Santander Mastercard [STRIKE]£2262.55[/STRIKE]/£2217.50 = 2%,Halifax Loan [STRIKE]£2747.42[/STRIKE]/£2491.24 =9%
Bank of Mum and Dad in Law [STRIKE]£3300[/STRIKE]/£3160 =4%,
Save for a Nikon D300 (or similar) £1104.580 -
£37.82 paid of the CC. [Insert Tesco slogan here]
More to follow very soon...just got paid today but need to figure out what to do with it all so I don't go overbudget!
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!
Proud to be dealing with her debts 1198~
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Another £25 from OH's scratchies and bingo account to savings, new total £1484.500
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£208.03 went to Egg yesterday so off to alter sig should be over 1% paid off now :rotfl::rotfl:
DTxx0
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