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Budgeting without actually having debt

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  • MFWannabe
    MFWannabe Posts: 2,544 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    ViolaLass wrote: »
    Or just block her from your phone and email and stop paying her immediately.

    Exactly right!! Then put the £100 per month to good use and pay off the credit card debt.

    MFW 2026 #50: £3,583.49/£25,000

    Mortgage:
    16/01/26: £56,794.25
    02/01/26: £60,223.17

    12/08/25: Mortgage: £62,500.00
    12/06/25: Mortgage: £65,000.00
    07/03/25: Mortgage: £67,000.00
    18/01/25: Mortgage: £68,500.14
    27/12/24: Mortgage: £69,278.38 

    Savings: £20,000




  • Change electricity/gas supplier via quidco/topcashback - I change all the time, once one change is complete I change again. I can make between £70-£130 every two months from that. Every time you buy something online, insurance, gifts, anything, then go through a cashback website.

    Definitely give up smoking, I'm so glad I did. Save myself £150 a month from not smoking, although it does just end up getting spent elsewhere! I should really save it in an account. I took Champix for a couple of weeks, prescribed by the doctor, and found giving up so easy.

    I don't drive and don't really need to, live in the city centre, have no kids and can get a bus/train to most places I want to go to and I have a bike for places I can't get to by public transport!

    Definitely get rid of Sky, there's nothing wrong with Freeview and in the process you'll stop lining Rupert Murdoch's coffers.
  • ViolaLass
    ViolaLass Posts: 5,764 Forumite
    I love the inference in the title of this thread that you would only budget if you were in debt...
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