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The 'extra payment every week' challenge
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£10 this morning!0
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Hi Everyone hope you are all doing well with this challenge
Another £25 paid off the dreaded CC today :j
Thank you Ebay and my lovely buyers who want to buy my wonderful !! Items !!
I have decided I cant walk past the bank without nipping in and paying something :rotfl:lol
Debt free and Mortgage free thank you to all for your encouragement and advice :j
Crazy Clothes challenge £300/£48 and 5 months /0 without spending :T0 -
i'm doing this as a kind of "round down" approach. Every week, I check my current account, and round it down to the nearest £5/£10 by transferring some to one of the credit cards. It makes a dent faster than you'd expect!
That sounds like a good idea. I think I might start doing this :T
Naomi xCredit Cards NOV 2019 £33,220.42 Sept 2023 £19,951.00 Tilly Tidy 20223/COLOR] Sept £43.71 Here's my diary: A Ditherer's Diary Again0 -
Ok I did it as Monday is the end/start of my "financial" week so I've rounded down to the nearest £5 and paid ~£2.51 on the old cc.
I've updated my sig.
Naomi xCredit Cards NOV 2019 £33,220.42 Sept 2023 £19,951.00 Tilly Tidy 20223/COLOR] Sept £43.71 Here's my diary: A Ditherer's Diary Again0 -
£4.71 today yipee, off to update my sigLittlewoods £10 Very BNPL £234.42
My total debt is [STRIKE]£7242.32[/STRIKE]£244.42
Extra payment a week: This week: £
Total to date: £1279.29 not incl this week
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well i have paid off another £10 so far i feel im making a difference and hopefully will be able to pay off bigger sums from April but every little helps as everybody on here keeps reminding me. This group has been an inspiration and at last i am doing something about the C.C`s.:T Total paid to date is £53.01:T.
£5.00 + £53.01= 58.01 lets hope I can keep this up.
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Hello all, I have now moved all cc to 2 cards at 0% just need to make sure they are paid before the end of the promotion. I am going to pay the minimum and save the extra in my savings account then pay them off at the end
Rounded down my bank account so £2.75 put aside for cc0 -
Just made my first extra payment a week of £20 :j
will update my sig.Still here..... but working on that!0 -
Another £9.69 paid off the credit card today from my Quidco payment!Nov NSD: 8/7 Dec NSD: 1/10Sealed pot member #1443 2011: £106. 2012: £171Ninjakat challenge: Aim to clear two debts by April 2013100 day challenge: No toiletries or magazines 19/100 (3 x fails
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Extra payment a week challenge: Total to date: £2355.530 -
Paid £60.00 off CC today which as there is no Council Tax this month and next month this would have been half of my CT money. Total looking better now.
Keep going everyone looks like we are all doing really well x0
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