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Olympic Countdown aka clear those debts by July 2012!

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  • emsikins
    emsikins Posts: 121 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Hi all,

    Another payment for me today. :T

    £20 off a store card taking the
    total paid so far: £666.92
    Total debt at LBM... £16,815.02 :eek:
  • thrifty_fifty
    thrifty_fifty Posts: 1,298 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    £700 for me today. Payday at last. Wahoo!!!!


    M&S £2878.22/ Natwest £3526/ Loan £405/ [STRIKE]Sofa £0[/STRIKE]/ [STRIKE]Ring £0[/STRIKE]/
    Savings £12.04     NSD 3/10 :cool:    Total £6915.88

  • clefairy_5
    clefairy_5 Posts: 20 Forumite
    Wooo pay day, just paid off £368.92.

    Got my first £40 pay out from Onepoll this month, which went straight towards debt repayment. Now back at 60p!
  • lel3636
    lel3636 Posts: 15 Forumite
    Another Woo Hoo!! Pay day today.

    It cleared my overdraft and I've sat down tonight and put figures down on a spreadsheet for what's going into the bank and what's going to come out of the bank.

    I've set myself a weekly food budget of £40 (don't know if that's enough but I'm going to try and stick to it (averaging it over the month as I'm going to try and do a big shop this weekend). I've taken more advice from here and also got a spreadsheet page and am keeping track of my daily spending.

    Also now have a spreadsheet page of everything I've got in my freezers and have worked out two weeks of menus using as much as I can from the freezers,

    I have two other credit cards, one that I've already paid off, and one that I've never used. Today I have contacted the card companies and have cancelled both of them. I've also looked into doing a balance transfer for my tesco card (nearly all of it anyway) which will be on 0% interest with a 2.98% fee on the transfer amount for 14 months. Hope to sort that out next week.

    Phew... a busy evening :)
    Anyway, I can smell the bread cooking now so may indulge in a slice with butter and marmite :)
    Clear debts by July 2011 challenge
    Virgin         Apr10 [STRIKE]£1853.64[/STRIKE] now £1643.64
    MBNA Jul10 [STRIKE]£583.00[/STRIKE] now £389.35
    Barclaycard     Sep10     [STRIKE]£1481.76[/STRIKE]now £1,446.76
    TOTAL:     [STRIKE]£4,339.56[/STRIKE]    now £3,479.75
  • skaps
    skaps Posts: 2,255 Forumite
    Total debt is now at £12,146.68.
    MFW 2016 No 68 £1300/£8500 No new toiletries Cook sth different
  • missmental
    missmental Posts: 205 Forumite
    Hi,

    Just got paid!!

    Happy to announce that I have paid another £800. This is a grand total of £2097 which is 10.5% of mt target to pay by July 2012.

    31 months to go till I'm debt free but hopefully, earlier!
    missmental stopping being mental & to be debt free by 53 :j

  • The_Dragon
    The_Dragon Posts: 9,749 Forumite
    Thank you clefairy, skaps and miss mental for your updates, all duly added to the first post :D

    Lel - have you paid anything off and if so how much?
    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
  • babyhead
    babyhead Posts: 731 Forumite
    :o Shockingly I haven't updated on here :o:o But I am still trying to keep up with the challenge.

    I have paid off 2352.49 since I started. Or rather should say WE have considering I do have an OH:rotfl:

    We are starting on a DMP so things will be changing but hoping we can save for some f&f if I can reign in the spends a bit more! I'll try and update more often!
    DFW Nerd #1152
  • aytch
    aytch Posts: 1,721 Forumite
    I am also a shocker, I have not posted either, but have been working on it, and have been updating my sig, so quietly nibbling away :)
    DEBT FREE since 2011
    Retiring to Spain has changed my world

    :beer:
  • lel3636
    lel3636 Posts: 15 Forumite
    The_Dragon wrote: »
    Thank you clefairy, skaps and miss mental for your updates, all duly added to the first post :D

    Lel - have you paid anything off and if so how much?


    Hi, yes I've paid £96 off my MBNA yesterday :)
    Clear debts by July 2011 challenge
    Virgin         Apr10 [STRIKE]£1853.64[/STRIKE] now £1643.64
    MBNA Jul10 [STRIKE]£583.00[/STRIKE] now £389.35
    Barclaycard     Sep10     [STRIKE]£1481.76[/STRIKE]now £1,446.76
    TOTAL:     [STRIKE]£4,339.56[/STRIKE]    now £3,479.75
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