The 'extra payment every week' challenge

lancashirelassie

Evening Peeps,
bit of a diary going on here with me:o... Sons GF back on the scene again. I will have to call them Richard & Liz... anyway staying positive, she is on with sorting their money by opening a basic account showed her the Halifax site ... its just so simple..she has decided she needs to get to grips at her age!!:D So I will be supporting her in her efforts.Need her to declutter and then ebay her items. Need to get her on here in her own right... just wont tell her my signature;).
Ebay sales moving. Paid £25 extra off virgin CC.
The Nat West one will go in September.
Well done Rumbly Tum you go girl... and Betty Crumbles tin is getting noisy lol.
Keep going folks
For things to change - you have to change:)

mavvymoo

Betty_Crumble wrote: »

Hello everyone, congrats on the payments.

21p in my tin, thats the change from my short holiday (although overspent by £19 lol)

My debt is finally under £5k and I can't tell you how happy that makes me, I am actually starting to believe that at some point I really will be joining in on a savings or 'goal' thread before i'm 100 lol

Well done Betty :T Under £5k you are really getting there and you will be on a savers thread before you know it x

mavvymoo

lol In my excitement of Betty's post I forgot to update mine:rotfl:

Paid £150 today extra work I have done and now getting paid for and as I am brainwashed I MUST PAY IT IN !

Keep those great payments coming everyone :T

Betty_Crumble

Hello lanky and mavvy :j

90p in my NOISY tin lol

Got paid today and will update my extra payment properly later when I've shuffled my money to the right places.

I think I will save loads of money this winter and you know why? well i'll need no heating on because i'll come on here, read all the lovely posts and have a warm glow that'll see me through the cold, group hug :grouphug: (< although it looks more like a fondle to me haha)

:heart2:

ChocolateCupcake

Betty_Crumble wrote: »

Hello lanky and mavvy :j


I think I will save loads of money this winter and you know why? well i'll need no heating on because i'll come on here, read all the lovely posts and have a warm glow that'll see me through the cold, group hug :grouphug: (< although it looks more like a fondle to me haha)

:heart2:

Think I'll join you in the warm glow, and I totally agree about the 'going's on' of that smiley!!!

I got paid today and have managed to pay an extra £50 to my CC.
Also, from my purse, I had £1.20 in 20p's for my American holiday fund and 21p for the copper change jar.

Betty_Crumble

Lol @ goings on cccake
£50 is a lovely amount (just re read and thought i'd add that as i really like the sound of £50. Odd? MOI?)

ok so £482.16 to car last payment, yipee, now the best bit, off to update sig

Betty_Crumble

Morning, my Very amount is sat there taunting me, its interest free so not no biggie but cant help thinking how much neater my sig will be without it and then i can close the account. Hmmmm, might have to have a jiggle around my finances later.
Brainwashed IS the way forward lol

BritAbroad

That's a dodgy-looking hug Betty Crumble! :rotfl:

Off to a good start for this month - 63.02 towards the car loan.

Betty_Crumble

61p in me tin

inamin

Hi everyone, As some of you know I am the person who started this thread and I have been away for a really long time. I am so sorry to have left you all but so grateful to you all for keeping the thread going and keeping my idea of making an extra payment a week alive. I realy do appreciate it.

Things for me have been really hard and it has just not been possible for me to be around. I won't go into detail but suffice to say that I hit a rough patch.

Having said that, things are looking a bit better. (Not great but getting there very slowly) I have managed to increase my hours to full time at work which gave me a real boost as I thought I would be increasing our income but unfortunately I have found out that I will now be worse off by about £30 per month because I will have all my tax credits taken away. I have also just had my car tax renewal through plus a letter saying \i've an overpayment on tax credits from last year so this years has been reduced and a further £650 will be claimed back out of future years payments but I won;t actually get any when I go back to work full time so will now have ANOTHER debt to pay back. WHY IS IT SO BLOODY HARD? I want to decrease my debt not increase it.

Anyway I am back on the wagon and looking for as many ways as possible to save and earn in order to get out of this position.

I haven't update my signature and have not made any additional payments this week but will do so as soon as I can and will update. Thanks again for keeping the thread going.

xxxxx:j