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Olympic Countdown aka clear those debts by July 2012!

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  • The_Dragon wrote: »
    The person at the front of the pack at the moment for both monies paid AND percentage paid is (drum roll please!)

    62. bloodofareptile - £22,713.49 paid £2,551.63 (11.23%)

    Others are creeping up behind though :p and the current overall stats are as follows

    Wow! :dance: I'm ridiculously proud of myself. :p

    Another big payment coming up - Friday is OH's payday! It should mean a CC paid off and put to rest! It will take time though as I have to transfer it to the US. :( Paying things off is getting addictive!
    Goal 1 - CCs & Loans Credit card free as of 20 Feb 2010!!! Loan Free as of 15 Sep 2011!!!
    Goal 2 - Private Student Loans Citi - [strike]$7,500[/strike] $1,200 | Echo [strike]$1,500[/strike] 0 | Sallie Mae [strike]$7,500[/strike] 0 (updated: 3 Nov 2010)
    [STRIKE]10 in 10 #109 : 18,380/10,000 GBP[/STRIKE] | Olympic Challenge 21,000/22,713 GBP

  • kittiej
    kittiej Posts: 2,564 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Another £284.09 from me please Dragon :)
    Karma - the consequences of ones acts."It's OK to falter otherwise how will you know what success feels like?"1 debt v 100 days £2000
  • Hi

    I may not have chance to post on Friday (my usual day for updating) as I'm off on a weekend break!

    So far I have paid £1,580 towards my debts - well on my way!

    Keep up the good work everyone!
  • Hiya,
    Just realised I've paid the same thing twice so please add another £10 to my debt paid off. should be able to pay off about £700 to the bank of dad this week end which I'm soooooooo looking forward to :)
    DFW Nerd No: 758 :cool: Proud to be dealing with my debts!:T Proud mum to Bon-Scott my amazing 10/10/10 baby :p
  • Another £50 for me from my O/D. Wish it could be more but Feb is going to be expensive
  • planning_ahead_2
    planning_ahead_2 Posts: 449 Forumite
    edited 28 January 2010 at 12:58AM
    I got my £19 refund in the bank from M&S today, so straight off a CC it went.

    :j:j:j:j:j
    NR [STRIKE]£5542[/STRIKE]£2771 BC [STRIKE]£7987[/STRIKE]£7700 BC [STRIKE]£3000[/STRIKE]£5100 Cat1 Pd Cat2 Pd Ulstr [STRIKE]£3400[/STRIKE]£3070 TSB [STRIKE]£4851[/STRIKE]£4400 MBNA [STRIKE]£7700[/STRIKE]£3887 NWst [STRIKE]£950[/STRIKE] £700 Hfx [STRIKE]£10097[/STRIKE]£10050 Asda [STRIKE]£398[/STRIKE] £315 HFX1 Pd Hfx2 [STRIKE]£3133[/STRIKE] £3000
    LBM 15/1/10 £47,728 now £40,993 14.11% pd
    Snowball at LBM [STRIKE]1050[/STRIKE] 871 days left (745 days to Olympics 2012)
    £365/365 - £388 (that's for DH & me!)
  • Hello Dragon,
    Have finally been paid and direct debits have gone out.
    I have paid off £804.90 from my debt!!

    Again many thanks for your efforts Dragon and keep up the good work everyone.
  • Just wanted to add that its been a terrible month for me, had a weekend break in Germany and bought a PS3 (so that I spend more time at home and not out spending money!)

    Am hoping to make a greater payment next month, wish me luck and can I say its great to read about everyone's paybacks! Keep it up
  • I looked at my snowball (again:o) and decided it would be nice to round the figures down to the nearest £5 – just to make things easy. So I made several online transfers from my bank account and that resulted in an extra £33 off my debt today. I’ve decided that whenever I make payments I will always pay the odd pounds/pence to make sure I leave a nice round balance down to the nearest £5. It makes counting the debt balance easier and it leaves me with a nice feeling that those little extra bits are making a difference. Unfortunately I can’t round the whole debt as I can’t make extra payments to the Northern Rock loan – hey ho, there’s always something to thwart me;)

    So Dragon, can you mark me with a further £33 off my total please:j
    NR [STRIKE]£5542[/STRIKE]£2771 BC [STRIKE]£7987[/STRIKE]£7700 BC [STRIKE]£3000[/STRIKE]£5100 Cat1 Pd Cat2 Pd Ulstr [STRIKE]£3400[/STRIKE]£3070 TSB [STRIKE]£4851[/STRIKE]£4400 MBNA [STRIKE]£7700[/STRIKE]£3887 NWst [STRIKE]£950[/STRIKE] £700 Hfx [STRIKE]£10097[/STRIKE]£10050 Asda [STRIKE]£398[/STRIKE] £315 HFX1 Pd Hfx2 [STRIKE]£3133[/STRIKE] £3000
    LBM 15/1/10 £47,728 now £40,993 14.11% pd
    Snowball at LBM [STRIKE]1050[/STRIKE] 871 days left (745 days to Olympics 2012)
    £365/365 - £388 (that's for DH & me!)
  • The_Dragon
    The_Dragon Posts: 9,749 Forumite
    edited 28 January 2010 at 4:44PM
    Sorry I have been MIA for a couple of days folks - looks as though my pressie from Dr Dragon for Yule just gone and my 45th birthday could me a new computer :o

    I am fairly sure that I caught up on everyone - (some great payments coming through!) - so I will head off and update the first page :D

    Forgot to say welcome to the Olympics emsikins - I'm putting you down as 10k to pay at the moment - let me know if you want it changing
    Do not meddle in the affairs of Dragons, for thou art crunchy and good with catsup :D
    NSD 15/20, OS WL 21-6 (4) :(C.R.A.P R.O.L.L.Z #44 Twisted Firestarter, VSP #57 - £39.43
    :p Every Penny's a Prisoner :p
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