Pay off as much as you can in 2011 Challenge!

jwil

abba1772 wrote: »

Paid £85.00 today £55 towards Couch payment and £30 towards vodaphone WHICH IS NOW CLOSED WOOP WOOP

so my total for today is £2958.43 / £3500

Well done on getting rid of Vodafone! :j

jwil

Thanks for the updates everyone!

Looking forward to the weekend :cool:

Had a scary moment with the car this morning, it started making the most awful crunching noise at 6.45am where I was doing some work and about 20 miles from home :eek:. Apologies if anyone reading was rudely awoken at that time I was wondering if I'd hit something, or if I was dragging a huge piece of metal along the road but no thankfully.

Spoke to DH who said it sounds like the clutch has gone (it's been not great since I had the car about 4 years ago, so wouldn't be a great surprise). So anyway, carried on and did my surveying, went back to the car and all was fine. I've managed to get back to work ok without a problem so hopefully the gears just slipped or something. At least I don't have a hefty bill for a clutch (touch wood!)

o2bfree

Made my weekly op of £10 plus an extra £7.21.

So running total is now £1430.82/£6000

dizzybee

Not managed to post in a while but i am still chipping away,i have made a totel of £580 in extra payments.have loads listed on e bay,Amazon so hope fully will make a bit of extra cash,managed to get some relief bar work for the next 5 weeks so will had that to my challenge.
off to catchup on the post,looks like everyone is doing really well.

boysma

Pay day yesterday so have paid 134.33 to c.u. loan and 50.00 to credit card making my running total now:

3323.68/10,000

I know i've said it before but I cannot wait until I am using that money to overpay my mortgage and put into savings:) I suppose at least I am doing something about it now as for years I was happy paying the minimum payments and still using the cards so that they were always maxed out:o

Good luck everyone:A

kdenty

Was payday yesterday so here is where I'm at:

108. kdenty - £1074/£8,034

:j

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boysma wrote: »

Pay day yesterday so have paid 134.33 to c.u. loan and 50.00 to credit card making my running total now:

3323.68/10,000

I know i've said it before but I cannot wait until I am using that money to overpay my mortgage and put into savings:) I suppose at least I am doing something about it now as for years I was happy paying the minimum payments and still using the cards so that they were always maxed out:o

Good luck everyone:A

Hi Boysma, I know what you mean. I have been listening to a speaker called Jim Rohn (an international speaker on wealth and sucess) and he talks about the five pieces of the life puzzle that make for a sucessful life.

His first one is philosophy - and I know since coming on to MSE my whole philosophy about money has changed. I am proud to be paying off my debts and looking forward to the future. Throught the process I have also learned one big important lesson - I just can't handle credit cards!!:eek:

You are doing a great job Boysma:TKeep plugging away and it will soon be gone!:j
Allie

sarahs999

Hello all,
Had a great luxury weekend in Zurich (press trip) which really reminded me how the other half live. Sigh. Still, grateful to get the chance to go. Came back to a real GRRRRRR ebay moment; we were selling our sofa bed which is a really good one; hoped to get around £100, had 50 watchers. It sold for £20. Very depressing! I never put reserves on so I know that I just have to accept it but I really thought with 50 watchers I'd be OK. What were they all watching it for>???

And to top it all I can't take the paypal money out as I only have £49 in there (you get charged for any withdrawal under £50) so I just have to wait until I sell something else. Pah. Wanted to pay some money off!

Topcat33

Top Cat 33 (No.83) paid off £45.90 from my CC this morning bringing my new total to £1005.90/£2400.

Topcat33

I like your Wind in the Willows quote by the way sarahs999!