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i have managed some extra payments on my mortgage today
closed last small savings account £6.45
Halifax reward £10
and £20 fuel donation for taking friend to wedding - saved me from drinking and was not going to pay £160 taxi fair
total extra payments £36.45
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archery£9265.51/£13,500(68.63%target)Practising Scrooge and stingy old miser.0 -
Just adding this month's mortgage overpayment while I remember. Due to come out on 15th. £500
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Okay ive done some adding and sorting and my actual outstanding at beginging of year was £48262.44 please can you adjust it for me Jwill
made another payment to day and that brings total paid off to £8010.98/£48262.44 meaning £40251.48 outsanding still away to go but it all helps sorry Jwill for my lapse in maths xx I AM A MONEY MAGNET, THEY ARE MAKING MORE MONEY FOR ME AS WE SPEAK:pMIKES MOB, DFW NERD 1071, DFW LHS 132!MIRACLES HAPPEN I'VE SEEN IT WITH MY OWN EYES. LBM 08£77240.69 Current outstanding total £36083.01 Paid so far = £41157.680 -
good evening all hope you are well #98 here starting off september with £5 please vanquis £630/£3019 Robinson way £1207.41/1682.41
hsbc £11749
Declutter 2021 6/52
Pad 2021 £1318.000 -
No 36 reporting ....10.00 pad so now owe 2414/31943 and paid 14166/10000 in 2012....off to paralympics today!!
Happy Wednesday all!!0 -
archery - you are doing well with your paying off. I love reading where you get all the bits and pieces from. renting out the driveway is a fab idea.
jacci - enjoy the paralympics - I watched the riding yesterday - I am so in awe of so many of those athelets and riders.
my new balance is#2 7,751 / 10,000
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£19.43 from a refunded wowcher (refunded because the bar I bought it for is now defunct, secretly glad as now I'm pg I wouldn't have been able to ejyoy teh cocktails I paid for back in June!). SO put the refund straight off the Virgin card.0
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£123 paid off this month taking my totals to:
103 - £1871/£3566£12k in 2019 #084 £3000/£3000
£2 Savers Club 2019 #18 TOTAL:£394 (2013-2018 = £1542)0 -
£242.36 paid off Amex holiday spends so that's £3522.60/£5684.54 and that still leaves nearly £800 in my account:eek: Feels so weird having money in the account, almost enough to pay off the Barclaycard that needs sorting by 1st Nov there and I've still another £900 to come for car next month. BF is great he's getting me outta debt with doing this:)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 sales0
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