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Olympic Countdown aka clear those debts by July 2012!

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  • Lisap84
    Lisap84 Posts: 65 Forumite
    Right so pay day today and a payment of £44 to Barclaycard so now £2811.81 paid and £9579.38 to go!

    thanks :)
    As of Feb 11 - Next: [STRIKE]£727.53[/STRIKE] £250.00
    Barclaycard 0%: [STRIKE]£4077.39[/STRIKE] £3270.00 Virgin 0%: [STRIKE]£4630.05[/STRIKE] £4374.57 Abbey: [STRIKE]£863.04[/STRIKE] £813.04 Overdraft: £1400
    Total: March 10 [STRIKE]£13461.72[/STRIKE] £10107.61 :eek: 24.91% paid :cool:
    :ji will pay this off!!:j
    awaiting for redundancy payment to clear most of this in October :D
  • martafdz
    martafdz Posts: 1,000 Forumite
    #135 here.
    Original debt £5220, current debt £2765.16, I have paid £2454.84 (47%)

    I will be able to pay a bit more in a few weeks. I had a spending spree during Easter (holidays, meals out, etc) so I am pleased to know that even so I have actually reduced the debt instead of increasing it again.
    Quit smoking *1st January 2010*

    13/12/2012, baby girl!!!
  • sunday_girl
    sunday_girl Posts: 186 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Hi
    No 32 - total debt today £12,099 - slow progress at the moment but still going in the right direction I suppose.
  • MAY1950
    MAY1950 Posts: 27 Forumite
    Hi Dragon

    Hi number 143 Just to let you know I have managed to pay off £940 this month.

    Thanks for keeping this thread going :T

    May1950
  • mrsspendalot
    mrsspendalot Posts: 3,238 Forumite
    #145 reporting a payment today of £204.60 :D

    running total £832.02 / £12,000 (6.93%)
    Olympic Countdown Challenge #145 ~ DFW Nerd #389 ~ Debt Free Date: [STRIKE]December 2015[/STRIKE] September 2015

    :j BabySpendalot arrived 26/6/11 :j
  • hotspur_pam
    hotspur_pam Posts: 192 Forumite
    Private #147 hotspur_pam, reporting Sir! :D You peeps are doing well in this challenge :beer:. Paid £5 to JD Williams woo-hoo :D. Off to up-date siggy!

    Can't wait till pay day so i can really kick @r$e on this debt :beer:.
  • phoenix_dragon
    phoenix_dragon Posts: 413 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Bills have come out, so 52. has now paid £6665.60/£12643.27.
    HSBC Credit Card £608.69, HSBC Overdraft: £4123.67, HSBC Loan: £8,270.69
    Lloyds Credit Card: £1418.62, Very Account: £518.99, Barclaycard: £126
    Total Debt as of 9th June 2020: £15066.66
  • Kiwisaver_2
    Kiwisaver_2 Posts: 1,169 Forumite
    Well this all seems a bit weird and I am still expecting for someone to ask for it back, but after much heartache and stress I finally got paid my proper salary in May, along with all the backpay that I consequently was owed for the past eighteen months. :D

    Therefore.... big drum roll please.......I have paid off a massive chunk of my debt.

    This month I have paid £8,057.37 Total paid £23,198.41

    So near, yet so far!!
    Mortgage
    Start January 2017: $268,012
    Latest balance $266,734
    Reduction: $1,278.45
  • skaps
    skaps Posts: 2,255 Forumite
    edited 3 June 2011 at 11:28AM
    Kiwisaver wrote: »
    Well this all seems a bit weird and I am still expecting for someone to ask for it back, but after much heartache and stress I finally got paid my proper salary in May, along with all the backpay that I consequently was owed for the past eighteen months. :D

    Therefore.... big drum roll please.......I have paid off a massive chunk of my debt.

    This month I have paid £8,057.37 Total paid £23,198.41

    So near, yet so far!!
    Well done Kiwisaver for putting this money straight into paying off the debt, I would have been tempted to have done something else with the money.

    Paid off £5106.46 (40.50%)
    MFW 2016 No 68 £1300/£8500 No new toiletries Cook sth different
  • TooMany4Legs
    TooMany4Legs Posts: 104 Forumite
    #140 here, reporting in a payment of £250 :)
    :D:D:D:D:D Debt Free as of 26/3/2012 :D:D:D:D:D:D
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