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Budgeting without actually having debt
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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 2025 #50: £1989.73/£600007/03/25: Mortgage: £67,000.00
12/08/25: Mortgage: £62,500.00
12/06/25: Mortgage: £65,000.00
18/01/25: Mortgage: £68,500.14
27/12/24: Mortgage: £69,278.38
27/12/24: Debt: £0 🥳😁
27/12/24: Savings: £12,000
12/08/25: Savings: £12,0000 -
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.0 -
I love the inference in the title of this thread that you would only budget if you were in debt...0
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