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  • goodgirl80
    goodgirl80 Posts: 814 Forumite
    Make the most of that sarahs999! Bike rides are a great day out - we went on a picnic/bike ride on saturday, 30 mile round trip, lovely countryside, and cost us about £5 of food/drink! Plus the trip computer thingy reckons we burned 1250 calories, can't be bad!

    Another great total for May everyone. :T

    Don't think I'll be making any more payments until payday on the 25th. thanks to overstretching myself on the payday just gone, I'm living on £170 for the next 3 weeks, which would be doable if I didn't have 3 trips to london and a ball to go to! :eek: God knows how I'm going to manage it.


    you need a fairy godmother :A (I know that's an angel, but the closest I could get)
  • Eltee12
    Eltee12 Posts: 768 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee! Debt-free and Proud!
    Afternoon All

    paid £80 over the past couple of days taking my overall total to

    £1,077.94 / £1,500
    woo hooo, paid off over £1,000

    Remaining debt now in the £7k range (just), started out in the £9k range (just). psychologically feels like have paid off £2k :)

    happy days.

    oh, congrats to choogirl :T
    2018 AFD 23/240
    2018 CCC #11 £38.40/£250
    Mortgage-free since 2013

    Debt-free since Nov 2017
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Eltee12 wrote: »
    Afternoon All

    paid £80 over the past couple of days taking my overall total to

    £1,077.94 / £1,500
    woo hooo, paid off over £1,000

    Remaining debt now in the £7k range (just), started out in the £9k range (just). psychologically feels like have paid off £2k :)

    happy days.

    oh, congrats to choogirl :T

    well done on getting to the £1k mark :T

    can't wait for payday on friday lol feel like i'm getting no where when i need to wait lol
    NEXT TARGET: Halifax credit card DEC 22 £0 / £4499.12
    POAMAYC 2011 £6378.35 POAMAYC 2012 £5000.78
    POAMAYC 2013 £3480.04 POAMAYC 2014 £4085.14
    POAMAYC 2015 £7565.24 POAMAYC 2016 £8000.90 POAMAYC 2017 £7278.80 POAMAYC 2018 £13208.18POAMAYC 2019 £13309.28 POAMAYC 2020 £15026.05
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,832 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Eltee12 wrote: »
    Afternoon All

    paid £80 over the past couple of days taking my overall total to

    £1,077.94 / £1,500
    woo hooo, paid off over £1,000

    Remaining debt now in the £7k range (just), started out in the £9k range (just). psychologically feels like have paid off £2k :)

    happy days.

    oh, congrats to choogirl :T

    Well done Eltee! :T
    "Good financial planning is about not spending money on things that add no value to your life in order to have more money for the things that do". Eoin McGee
  • Walnut
    Walnut Posts: 70 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Just £20 today, but....

    .... I'm taking on some more work tomorrow:j. I thought it was just going to be 3 or 4 hours a week, but after a telephone call today it looks like it will be more like 15 hours which is brilliant. Maybe I'll reach my target this year after all.

    £520/£4000
  • nextyeartina
    nextyeartina Posts: 756 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    jwil - thanx for the welcome. getting back on the waggon's the hardest part. "I just don't count those payments until the balance is back to where it was before." - what do you mean??

    well done eltee12. you must be so proud :j.

    my kids keep asking to go on bike rides. we've got a great bike track round the corner, the kids have bikes & hubby got a great one from freecycle. just keeping an eye out for another then we'll be off.

    t, x
    The £1,000 emergency fund challenge #163 - £536.16/£1000
  • nextyeartina
    nextyeartina Posts: 756 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    took the kids & dogs out on the track after tea & came back with a baby magpie :eek:!! after dd reading up on the internet, i was told i should've left it alone as it was at the learning to fly stage. gave it some water and worms, then hubby took it back :(. hope it's ok. your fault sarahs999... :rotfl:.

    t, x
    The £1,000 emergency fund challenge #163 - £536.16/£1000
  • sarahs999
    sarahs999 Posts: 3,751 Forumite
    took the kids & dogs out on the track after tea & came back with a baby magpie :eek:!! after dd reading up on the internet, i was told i should've left it alone as it was at the learning to fly stage. gave it some water and worms, then hubby took it back :(. hope it's ok. your fault sarahs999... :rotfl:.

    t, x

    Bwah ha ha. All part of my secret evil plan to rid the world of magpies...
  • Hi All
    Haven't managed any OPs since I paid off my Co-op loan and have just booked a holiday so I don't think there will be any OPs for a month or so! but I will keep checking in each day for motivation.

    Well done to all on the OPs and the total for May.
    Allie
  • seasideDreamer
    seasideDreamer Posts: 1,363 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    Just made the £9 minium payment for July and rounded it up to £50 off the Barclaycard. So that's £2056.83/£6842.49.
    Debt free and busy treating myself:)

    No more toiletries/make up until I've used what I've got stashed since Jan 2011, graduated October 2012. Restocked Dec 13..damn those sales
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