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Shifting a 24K debt in a year?????

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  • Ceniza
    Ceniza Posts: 761 Forumite
    Ahhhh okay - my snowball payments are only £800 (for calculation purposes), but usually pay about £850 a month towards these.

    After Octobers [hopefull] payrise I should be able to bump these up by another £100 or something :)
    Adam's diary - My Debt Diary - The Challenge | LBM May 2010 with £23,343.35 | £16,141.46 to go...
    Cleared: £7,369.16 / 30.85% | Current DFD: Oct2012 from Jan2014 | July repaid: £600/£800

    Goals: Aug-11 37% | Nov-11 60% | Feb-11 67% | May-12 76% | Aug-12 86% | Dec-12 debt free
  • Kepp
    Kepp Posts: 4,390 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just a quick update -

    managed to extend one of my overdrafts by another £1000 and used that to pay off some of my Lloyds card, which I worked out has saved me another £249 in interest. :D

    Also means I now only have to overpay my snowball by £445 to knock another month off, sooooo want to do this, would be so good to see 12 instead of 13 at the end of my DFD even if it is only December!

    Also applied for a Santander card, 0% for 13 months. Don't think I'm likely to get it but I had to try! :)
    Debt at LBM Apr 2010 £28,767 Debt free as of Nov 2013 :j
  • Woowoo
    Woowoo Posts: 4,603 Forumite
    That's a good bit of juggling with your overdraft, anything that saves you on interest is a bonus x
    LBM Aug 09: £18,650.47 - Current: £12,854.93 (£5946.79)

    Barclays: £2,928.34 Lloyds: £2,499.60
    MBNA: £3,788.99 Overdraft: £1,900.00 Mum: £1,738.00

    Surveys: £6.60/£40.00
  • o2bfree
    o2bfree Posts: 429 Forumite
    You are doing amazingly well.
    Your diary is so interesting and funny in places.
    Will be subscribing (if I can work out how to do it) so I keep up with how you are doing.
    Pay as much as you can in 2011- £3688.54/£6000
    Pay as much as you can in 2012 - £3190.96/£6000
    LBM - August 2010 - £19202.30
    Current - August 2012 - £11803.68
    Paid so far - £7398.62
  • Ceniza
    Ceniza Posts: 761 Forumite
    I failed in the challenge :(
    Adam's diary - My Debt Diary - The Challenge | LBM May 2010 with £23,343.35 | £16,141.46 to go...
    Cleared: £7,369.16 / 30.85% | Current DFD: Oct2012 from Jan2014 | July repaid: £600/£800

    Goals: Aug-11 37% | Nov-11 60% | Feb-11 67% | May-12 76% | Aug-12 86% | Dec-12 debt free
  • Kepp
    Kepp Posts: 4,390 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Ceniza wrote: »
    I failed in the challenge :(

    Oh no :(

    Wait just checked your sig - you still knocked a month off and have gone sub 21K :T

    I think that is still worth a massive congratulations :j
    Debt at LBM Apr 2010 £28,767 Debt free as of Nov 2013 :j
  • jtr2803
    jtr2803 Posts: 3,232 Forumite
    Beccie you are the queen of money juggling and I bow down to your superior interest beating knowledge!

    £249 is a lot to save, I have fingers and legs crossed for your BT card too :D

    Congrats to Adam too on being sub £21k, time for an MSE party me thinks :beer::j:money:

    Very happily married on 10th April 2013 :D
    Spero Meliora
    Trying to find a cure for Maldivesitis :rotfl:
  • Ceniza
    Ceniza Posts: 761 Forumite
    beccie wrote: »
    Oh no :(

    Wait just checked your sig - you still knocked a month off and have gone sub 21K :T

    I think that is still worth a massive congratulations :j

    Thanks :) I would have liked to have knocked off more, but who knows - maybe in a few months I can make more payments. It's just going to be a very expensive few months for me coming up so not holiday out much hope
    Adam's diary - My Debt Diary - The Challenge | LBM May 2010 with £23,343.35 | £16,141.46 to go...
    Cleared: £7,369.16 / 30.85% | Current DFD: Oct2012 from Jan2014 | July repaid: £600/£800

    Goals: Aug-11 37% | Nov-11 60% | Feb-11 67% | May-12 76% | Aug-12 86% | Dec-12 debt free
  • Kepp
    Kepp Posts: 4,390 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Ceniza wrote: »
    Thanks :) I would have liked to have knocked off more, but who knows - maybe in a few months I can make more payments. It's just going to be a very expensive few months for me coming up so not holiday out much hope

    Think you've got holidays on the brain! :rotfl:
    Debt at LBM Apr 2010 £28,767 Debt free as of Nov 2013 :j
  • Ceniza
    Ceniza Posts: 761 Forumite
    beccie wrote: »
    Think you've got holidays on the brain! :rotfl:

    hahahahahahaha!

    I think I must have. I was thinking the reasons why it's going to get expensive! It's the snow season, so will be in Slovakia over December and Austria January for snowboarding :D
    Adam's diary - My Debt Diary - The Challenge | LBM May 2010 with £23,343.35 | £16,141.46 to go...
    Cleared: £7,369.16 / 30.85% | Current DFD: Oct2012 from Jan2014 | July repaid: £600/£800

    Goals: Aug-11 37% | Nov-11 60% | Feb-11 67% | May-12 76% | Aug-12 86% | Dec-12 debt free
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