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June 2010, 80 payments to go............
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Dinner was £42.10 and I have paid my niece £25. With a bit of effort today should be a NO SPENDING DAY.0
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oh dear it wasn't: Lunch £12.84 and new clothes, £1010
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And in week 2 I have spent £370.23. SO now I do have to have a very quiet two weeks or I will be over drawn which I do not want to be. I'm in London for the next two week-ends for work so that will be good as no train fares. I have £120 in pound coins and £12 in my purse on current showing that will last about four days, I need it to last 16 days .............0
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Milk and bread £1,620
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Coffee £2. I've been thinking. I have £7200ish on my b'card on 0% which runs out in March. My original plan was to pay the minimum to March and then find another 0% deal. But even though financially this is the right thing to do I am considering paying it off by December so that next year I just have the mortgage and no other debt. I pay £220 as my minimum payment and it would be good just to have the mortgage. I will mull this one over...........................0
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Right I've mulled and decided to get rid of my debts and pay off what I can on the mortgage between now and December. I will stay here for mortgage news but I might transfer my diary in in July to dfw which is where I should be probably.0
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My aim is £500 per month off the mortgage and £1000 per month off the debts. And my debt total to be less than £150k by Christmas.0
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Good luck with those plans, it is interesting to see your daily spending and I'm looking forward to seeing how you interpret it at the end of the month.Mortgage [STRIKE]16/03/2011: £190K 01/01/2017: £107,729.65 [/STRIKE] 01/07/2017: £95,979.89
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tootallulah wrote: »I have £120 in pound coins
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Well not in my bag smf they're in coin bags in my kitchen. Today I spent£21.67 on groceries and £2 on coffee.0
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