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One Debt Vs 100 Days - Take 4

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  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    Hi Michelle and everyone else :D

    I would love to join in. I have attempted these challenges before but have never completed one. However, my OH is moving in at the end of November which will half my monthly bills saving me £400 so I know that I can do them now :D.

    Please put me down for £400 to pay of my sofa which is on my mum's credit card.

    I will be away for the start of the challenge but will be back on 6th September with a bang :).

    Thanks for running the challenge Michelle :A

    Emily xx
  • La_escocesa
    La_escocesa Posts: 3,119 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Can I join in please??! This challenge is just what I need.

    100 days to clear a £2,400 credit card.

    The final push!!

    :beer:
  • WelshWoofer
    WelshWoofer Posts: 5,076 Forumite
    edited 22 August 2010 at 8:29PM
    Hi,
    Would you mind if I joined in this time too please?
    Due to a mess up in my wages I now will have a £700 overdraft by the time I get paid next (mid Sept).
    I won't get all of this back (maybe £300-400 back), some of it is my own doing:o

    So, I'd like to go for £700 please to clear the overdraft and any tax/underpayment money that I get back eventually will be used partly to build up some savings again and partly to make an overpayment to the one last debt I have (a loan with Lloyds).

    Have listed some ebay things today and looked at the budgets again - here goes!

    PS. Thanks for having me!
  • net78
    net78 Posts: 58 Forumite
    Hi
    Can I join please.
    I aim to pay off Littlewoods account £126.05
    One debt v 100 days take 4(1.9.10-10.12.10) Littlewoods £126.05 Paid off 23/11/10 7 days early , then the washing machine gave up boooo
    one debt v 100days take6 (15/08/11-23/11/11)-capital one credit card £1902.91 paid off 4/11/11 19 days early:j
  • cha97michelle
    cha97michelle Posts: 5,818 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    :D I am starting to crank myself up a bit for the start date. I have listed 12 items on ebay tonight thinking to myself that i will get the cash once the challenge starts. I also did 5 more dooyoo reviews so i am up to £32.50 there, and i have a couple of quid in my lightspeed so i need to do more of their surveys to get that to a payout level.

    It's all slowly slowly.

    I'll keep myself occupied getting my lists for the challenge up to date. There are so many of us. It's going to be fun.
  • Hiya

    Can I join again please, have done the last two, one successfully and one not quite so successful, ended up with about £300 left on a £700 debt! :-(
    I'd like to go for my smallest card, £330 on capital 1. Little achievements but they all count eh?

    Good luck everyone xx
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  • Hannah_10
    Hannah_10 Posts: 1,774 Forumite
    Ooh that's a good point, what can I eBay now on a ten day auction so it closes in September?

    *Wanders off looking thoughtful*.
    I refuse to be afraid of the big bad wolf, spiders, or debt collection agencies; one of them's not real and the other two are powerless without my fear.
    (Ok, one of them is powerless, spiders can be nasty.)


    As of the last count I have cleared
    [STRIKE]23.16%[/STRIKE] 22.49% of my debt. :(
  • amiehall
    amiehall Posts: 1,363 Forumite
    I'm really excited about getting started. I'm sure there's some things I can ebay/amazon. I've never sold anything online before :P Eek! Me reaching my target it pretty reliant on receiving a tax rebate I've applied for within the challenge and I've no idea how long those take. I hope I get it as I could really use the money.
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  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,676 Ambassador
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    longhaul~Dont beat yourself up.
    That was a great amount off & remember it all helps :grin:
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  • amiehall wrote: »
    I'm really excited about getting started. I'm sure there's some things I can ebay/amazon. I've never sold anything online before :P Eek! Me reaching my target it pretty reliant on receiving a tax rebate I've applied for within the challenge and I've no idea how long those take. I hope I get it as I could really use the money.

    My tax rebate took 4 months of me chasing the tax office!
    Overdrafts transferred to MBNA £953.40/£4279.80 Car insurance (on CC) £461.98/£751.98 :mad: Bank of mum and dad £1500/£5000
    Total debt repaid £2915.38/£10,031.78 (29%):T Owed [STRIKE]£10,031.78[/STRIKE][STRIKE] £7400[/STRIKE] £7116.40 Pay off as much as you can in 2011 challenge £1127.60/£4000
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