The "Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2012" challenge - PART 2!!!

PedroMatias

For the slightly autistic maths geeks, like me... today is a palindrome!

21/02/2012

Happy today, for those on 'the scale'

PedroMatias

p.s. monthly current account 'sweep' into the savings account (which I offset against the parent loan) was £51.11, so new totals are slightly better again...

#57 £4,585.38/£16,136.77 28.42%

PedroMatias

InsertWittyName wrote: »

Time for my monthly payday update!

#055 InsertWittyName £5307.95 / £15626.32 (33.97%)

Expensive month this time though unfortunately...

So close to being under £10k owing!

And I believe that's me, errr... 'winning'

Congrats! So close to being four-figures, it'll be a great feeling.

recurrent-ostrich

PedroMatias wrote: »

For the slightly autistic maths geeks, like me... today is a palindrome!

21/02/2012

Happy today, for those on 'the scale'

Over the years, I'm slowly realising that everyone I know is somewhere along that scale...there are just degrees of how far.

jakes-mum

PedroMatias wrote: »

For the slightly autistic maths geeks, like me... today is a palindrome!

21/02/2012

Happy today, for those on 'the scale'

Im afraid to say the first thing I thought was 'thats so cool' and the second thing I thought was 'ooo my friends the twins birthday is today as well that makes it even more fun, they get mirrored numbers for their mirrored looks'

I think my love of numbers has now reached a whole new and exceedingly sad level :rotfl:

choclover

Still waiting for the littlewoods statement to drop through the door and then I can do the last of this months updates before payday on Friday, it seems such a short month compared to last month :j.

jakes-mum

psychopathbabble wrote: »

I've just found a statutory sick pay quote at £81 per week.... oh F**K.

Anyone know of any cash in hand jobs in the essex/herts/cambridge area? I'm gonna be desperate!

Have you put all your details into the turn2us website? http://www.turn2us.org.uk/?gclid=COLLsczarq4CFeontAodmmhgSg See what help you might get if you go onto SSP

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Thanks everyone for your advice. I don't want to spend the OD money, or have to say "I owe more now than I did yesterday because I spent it" so I'm going to declare it all. You're my little angels on my shoulders and you'll stop me spending it :A I'll be too scared of getting told off, and you should tell me off if I do spend

You are a faaaaaaaaaaaaaar braver lady than me, im still sat at £500 OD even though we are £350 in credit :rotfl:. But I know if DH doesnt get any more work for a month after this contract finishes we will have to use that OD to pay the mortgage I know it would dishearten me greatly to have to put it back up. I dont take losing well
When he gets a full time permanent job I promise that I will declare the entire OD paid to you all

kerri_dfw

jakes-mum wrote: »

You are a faaaaaaaaaaaaaar braver lady than me, im still sat at £500 OD even though we are £350 in credit :rotfl:. But I know if DH doesnt get any more work for a month after this contract finishes we will have to use that OD to pay the mortgage I know it would dishearten me greatly to have to put it back up. I dont take losing well
When he gets a full time permanent job I promise that I will declare the entire OD paid to you all

Aw but I have you lot holding my hand so it makes it easier

Today I am declaring my OD as paid and my c/c has just been paid £485 as they wouldn't let me pay anymore towards it, hmmmm.... not sure what that's about?

So... ready for my biggest pay off to date?

#005 £2957.83/£5030

mf0u1098

Chuckled at the geeky maths people with the palindrome as I spotted it too... Oh dear! What are we like?! :rotfl: I definitely feel like I'm in good company.

OH PANTS!!!! Just remembered it's my Uncle's birthday today :eek: On the plus side though it's also pancake day so I've got all the ingredients ready (Lactofree milk for me...) for tonight.


Well, I've had a horrendous night coughing so hardly slept, needless to say I'm off work today... <----erm why have I put that smiley face cos I'm OFF work??? Should replace with . However, I guess that it's only good to be off work if you're well so I guess I'm back to ... Sorry, I'll stop having random conversations with myself!

Jakes-mum, I completely understand why you're not declaring the OD hun. Do whatever is right for you. And by the way, there is no way you will lose!!! You're too tough for that xxx

PedroMatias

Gemma, I got a bit bored last night...

I wanted to know how much we'd paid off in total, so I made a basic spreadsheet. Well, it started out basic...

I went a bit crazy with 'IF' functions. I now have a spreadsheet that automatically strikes through and includes a percentage if any debt has been paid off, and various other bits. All you have to do is plug the numbers in and copy'n'paste directly into the the first few posts of the thread.

I'm sure yours is even fancier, but on the off-chance you think it might save you any time I'll happily send over a copy.

How sad am I?

P.s. I won't steal your thunder and tell everyone the total before month-end!