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Olympic Countdown aka clear those debts by July 2012!
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£24.44 for me today please. Going at snails pace at the moment but every little helps!Nerd No. 12452014 Challenges:Attempting to snowball to freedom!0
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Just worked out, it's about 3.22% per month to pay off per month if they are doing it equally across the challenge. So anyone ahead deserves a huge clap :T :T
Thanks Gemmzie, that's really helpful! I'm *just* aheadCC1: [STRIKE]£4990.46[/STRIKE] £3048.57 / CC2: [STRIKE]£5616.99[/STRIKE] £5583.10 / CC3: [STRIKE]£4815.75[/STRIKE] £4738.86 / CC4: [STRIKE]£3844.66[/STRIKE] £3723.32 / CC5: [STRIKE]£2669.82[/STRIKE] £2655.09 / CC6: [STRIKE]£1897.17[/STRIKE] £1861.01 / CC7: £1227.52
Debt Free Olympic Contender #47 (£24,984.81) paid £1,675.19 (6.70%)0 -
Hiya Dragon - can I join in please - I need to use up the last line of my signature
My debts at 31/12/09 were £34,262, one of those is a lifetime balance of 3.94% and as that is less interest than the mortgage it will have to wait until the mortgage is cleared (circa 2023)
Therefore, bearing in mind that I will probably pay £2K off that (£8750) debt in the next 2 years via minimum payments so can I have a target of £28,000 please?
I have only skimmed the 14 pages or so therefore I would be grateful if you would clarify
1. Is there a particular day or date each month when you would like us to send you updates?
2. Which pub will we be meeting up in to celebrate? - will there be national or regional events?
3. I assume the celebratory event will be on the evening of or before the opening ceremony - can you confirm so I can put it in my diary (I'm a very busy girl :cool::cool:)
Many thanks for this - I prefer this target to my snowball target
UD XXXTotal debt at 01/01/2010 £34,262 (Excludes mega mortgage) Daily interest £12.42
02/10 Now £3.12 due to repayments, BT and :money:
Olympic challenge £5081/£28,000 (18.15%)
Aim to lose 35 lbs from 01/01/2010 to 30/06/10 9.5/35
1 debt in 100 days £2886/£38390 -
I've paid off £35.13 today so sneaking back up myself again!
Well done Paulgonnabedebtfree and learn2cope on your payments as well :j
**UpsyDaisy** - good to see you - you are added to the Opening Ceremony post - the party will actually be the day before the Opening Ceremony and we will be on here with our own bottles of champagne (and take out of choice!:D) - it would be great to meet up in person but not really fair on KiwiSaver!Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with catsup
NSD 15/20, OS WL 21-6 (4)
C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z #44 Twisted Firestarter, VSP #57 - £39.43
Every Penny's a Prisoner
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Haha!! If I actually manage to do this, I'll be buying myself a ticket and coming to London for the party. :jMortgage
Start January 2017: $268,012
Latest balance $266,734
Reduction: $1,278.450 -
£10.14 from me today0
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Hello Everybody!
Larger payments from me today £184.06 please DragonKarma - the consequences of ones acts."It's OK to falter otherwise how will you know what success feels like?"1 debt v 100 days £20000 -
Yay to Paulgonnabedebtfree and kittiej who are now at 1.18% and 2.53% paid respectively, and their payments have snuck the total up a bit as well
Total to pay at start - £1,284,411.92
Total paid to date - £14,690.38
Percentage paid = 1.14%Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with catsup
NSD 15/20, OS WL 21-6 (4)C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z #44 Twisted Firestarter, VSP #57 - £39.43
Every Penny's a Prisoner
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Haha!! If I actually manage to do this, I'll be buying myself a ticket and coming to London for the party. :j
I was thinking that as we'd all be debt free and therefore flush we could chuck in a quid each to bring you over
Alternatively, you could really work hard at a particular sport, get into the Olympic team and come over for nowt - board and lodging paid as well:money:Total debt at 01/01/2010 £34,262 (Excludes mega mortgage) Daily interest £12.42
02/10 Now £3.12 due to repayments, BT and :money:
Olympic challenge £5081/£28,000 (18.15%)
Aim to lose 35 lbs from 01/01/2010 to 30/06/10 9.5/35
1 debt in 100 days £2886/£38390 -
Right oh, I'll have to start taking the anabolic steriods about now or start practising my synchronised swimming in the bath. Mortgage
Start January 2017: $268,012
Latest balance $266,734
Reduction: $1,278.450
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