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

meersy22

Morning All

I've paid £440 to nasty debt this month which brings me up to 24.33% of debt paid. Every month so far I've had something major to pay - this month my washing machine died but unlike previous years the debt hasn't gone up which is thanks to these boards and the helpful peeps on them. Thank you

Happytogetdebtfree

Well done meersy jeep up the good work and we will eventually get there X

parsniphead

Morning Everyone

Everyone seems to be chugging away and paying off those horrible debts still. Just the usual for me today off £663.12.

Off to update my sig.

Happytogetdebtfree

Updated signiture and I'm under 60k owing yay I'm so pleased :-) still got loads to come out but I just couldn't resist :-)

mel19632

Well done!! Great milestone. Hope that keeps up your motivation!

Happytogetdebtfree

Well the problem is although w hav a good amount of excess there's some diy jobs that need to be done and they will take sone of the cash and well I find the home runs me down as it is so I get in debates about diy and paying off debts with spare cash I don't know what to do...:-/

hypno06

Morning all.....

I've been awol from this challenge for a few months as I found myself suddenly in a game where the goalposts had been moved somewhat.....ie OH upped and left me with the mortgage, and the remaining debt, all to sort out...

So, although I am more or less back to minimum payments, which means that my aim of being debt free by christmas is going to fall somewhat short, I am back and happy to report that I have paid £866 off the capital owing today, taking my total paid for the challenge so far to just over £5k.

I've not kept up to date much with this thread, so hope everyone is ok, and plodding on with those payments!

x

Happytogetdebtfree

Hypno well done on the payments and sorry about your oh leaving you with the mortgage and remaining debt, happy to have you posting and I think everyones doing ok:-)

mel19632

Hi Hypno, sorry to hear about your situation. Sounds like you are keeping your chin up though. Well done on making those min payments, anything is better than nothing and even better than adding to debt!
Is your OH contributing to house/children etc? I assume some of the debts are his/joint? xx

InaPickle

Paid £40.10 off CC but can't really count it as it's replacing money spent on the card since I started the challenge. Still, it's going in the right direction!