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SS's 2007 Debt Free Challenge

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  • spud30
    spud30 Posts: 16,872 Forumite
    Gemmzie wrote: »
    £1k in a week :eek: Get you, you'll be leaving us a debt free man sooner than expected!

    Oh no, I cant imagine this place without SS :o

    Great news about Woofer too SS :T
    Is it better to aim for the stars and hit a tree or aim for a tree and land in its branches :think:
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  • southernscouser
    southernscouser Posts: 33,745 Forumite
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    Verbatim wrote: »
    great news on woofer (is that his actual name ss?).

    And wow and well done on the debt busting.

    Thanks V. :)

    Nah woofer is his undercover forum name! ;)

    And thanks V. :D
  • southernscouser
    southernscouser Posts: 33,745 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    spud30 wrote: »
    Oh no, I cant imagine this place without SS :o

    Great news about Woofer too SS :T

    Neither can I Spudly! :o

    Thank you. :)
  • Gemmzie
    Gemmzie Posts: 14,876 Forumite
    Good you'd better not :)
    No longer using this account for new posts from 2013
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Wow, well done on paying so much off this month! :T :T

    You deserve all the praise that's being heaped on you!! :D
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
  • southernscouser
    southernscouser Posts: 33,745 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    OK so I've been doing 'the accounts' and I reckon I've got about £775 left over so far this month after all my payments have gone out.

    Will probably only need to fill up the car once more until payday so about another £50 there.

    Leaving £725. I'm hoping to get Christmas sorted this month. Based on the last 2 years figures, £250 is a way above average so £475 left there.

    Then there is socialising/general spends say £100 leaving £375! (bloody hell it goes quick :rotfl: )

    Then Christmas do is £40 odd plus spending money etc I'm budgetting £125 :o I know it's alot but I don't go out on the razz often and it is London prices! :rolleyes: Even though it's not until December I want to have it left over come payday.

    Leaving £250. I don't think there is anything else to pay out for. Also hoping to get £250 from ebay plus still have loads of other crap to put on there. But don't want to include that yet!

    So I'm pretty confident of getting Barclaycard down below £1,000 before the end of the month. So much so, I'm gonna pay £200 off it now. That will leave me with another £183.11 to do it. :)
  • mrsspendalot
    mrsspendalot Posts: 3,238 Forumite
    SS - is it just me or does your thread have someone else's username on it as the thread starter? lol. It says debtfreefuture :confused:
    Olympic Countdown Challenge #145 ~ DFW Nerd #389 ~ Debt Free Date: [STRIKE]December 2015[/STRIKE] September 2015

    :j BabySpendalot arrived 26/6/11 :j
  • southernscouser
    southernscouser Posts: 33,745 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    mrsspendalot wrote: »
    SS - is it just me or does your thread have someone else's username on it as the thread starter? lol. It says debtfreefuture :confused:

    It does indeed! :rotfl:

    Since the site went doo-lally it's lost all the posts before June 29th this year so that was the first one in my diary it remembers! :rolleyes: :p
  • mrsspendalot
    mrsspendalot Posts: 3,238 Forumite
    at least its not me going mad then ;)
    Olympic Countdown Challenge #145 ~ DFW Nerd #389 ~ Debt Free Date: [STRIKE]December 2015[/STRIKE] September 2015

    :j BabySpendalot arrived 26/6/11 :j
  • Snaggles
    Snaggles Posts: 19,503 Forumite
    Well 'debtfreefuture' has got to be a good omen, right? :D
    "I wasn't wrong, I just wasn't right enough."
    :smileyhea
    9780007258925
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