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  • *Mari*
    *Mari* Posts: 473 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Hi all,

    Have just made a £138 payment to my CC and an over payment of £362 to my loan. So that's an extra £500 for me please making my total so far £2230.92/£5500 :D

    Thank you
  • seasideDreamer
    seasideDreamer Posts: 1,363 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    £50 paid off the Post Office card so thats £2533.35/£5684.54. :j Yey first month my debts have gone down rather than up in months, things are looking up:)
    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
  • michmcc79
    michmcc79 Posts: 78 Forumite
    Number 49 reporting... another £100 off my council tax arrears! Hoorah! Not on target for the year so far but VERY excited council tax arrears only £225 now! New total £882/1900
    Capital One: £[STRIKE]398[/STRIKE] 370 Council Tax: £[STRIKE]1192 [/STRIKE] 225 Rent Arrears: PAID!!!:j Water:£[STRIKE]699[/STRIKE] 539 Kays: PAID!!! :j Vanquis: £450
    £1650/£3337 49% paid :beer:
    Pay as much as you can in 2012 882/1900 #49
  • mr2jay
    mr2jay Posts: 191 Forumite
    #133 reporting in.

    Paid off another £125.00

    Total Paid Off £806.25/£5000
    Key - Balance/Remaining - Total £15073.21/£8283.11
    Rent Arrears - £4770/£985, Council Tax £1582.26/£1200, Eon Energy £907.10/£600, Anglian £317.06/£105.32, Car Loan £1200/£450, CC £4632.79/£4152.79, Personal Debts £1270/£790, [STRIKE]Wage Advance £400/£0[/STRIKE]
  • clippy_girl
    clippy_girl Posts: 2,283 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    hello, my stats for june are-

    member 7- £3318/ £5978.82
    Paid in june- £769 :)
    :j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j:j
  • snailmail
    snailmail Posts: 131 Forumite
    i have finally paid off the virgin and hsbc cc! whoo hoo! that's another £180.98 payment to hsbc closing the account.

    i cannot wait to pay it off and have no debt!

    i'm now at £1234.75/£2117
    LBM: January 2012
    Debt Free as of 20th September 2012
    Savings: ISA:£14.74/IF:£3500ish)
  • runninglea
    runninglea Posts: 907 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    snailmail wrote: »
    i have finally paid off the virgin and hsbc cc! whoo hoo! that's another £180.98 payment to hsbc closing the account.

    i cannot wait to pay it off and have no debt!

    i'm now at £1234.75/£2117

    Less than £1000 to go- wont be long now
    Year 2019 (1,700/£17000mortgage repayment)Overall mortgage (71,400/165568) (44
    .1%) (42/100) payments made. Total paid 2019 year £1,700
    Total paid 2017 year £15,300Total paid 2018 year £13,600
  • jwil
    jwil Posts: 22,832 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Thanks for the updates everyone.

    Congratulations - in June we paid off:

    June - £39,307.76


    Running total: £269,419.89, €600    :j:j
    "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
  • sarahs999
    sarahs999 Posts: 3,751 Forumite
    Yay! Well over the quarter of a million mark, fantastic going. Roll on half a million by December!
  • misselvis
    misselvis Posts: 285 Forumite
    Energy Saving Champion
    Hello folks
    hope everyone is enjoying the confused weather :)

    just updated my signature

    have paid off £720 towards debts: £250 towards cc, £200 towards dad loan, £209 bank loan and remainder towards chipping away at overdraft.

    £220 towards mortgage overpayment and £230 towards savings. Have to keep reminding myself its baby steps and am in a better position than I was last year or even at the start of the year as I have decided to stop playing about and tackle this debt mountain properly.

    need to set myself a budget though after I have paid out everything get into a mad frenzy a few days after payday and am now left with very little in the bank to last me- not so good, thank goodness my part time gig has come in handy but need to get more disciplined.

    thats all for me folks - take care
    misselvis proud and in motion - dealing with her debts step by step :)DFW #107
    challenge pay off 6.5k by the end of 2017~ £388/£6500 challenge 1% challenge = 6% of debt cleared; challenge - build up 3 months emergency fund- £0/£6000
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