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The "Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2012" challenge - PART 3!!!

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  • Karrie2129
    Karrie2129 Posts: 71 Forumite
    811 swag bucks already! :T
    Total Debt: 1383/ £8121

    Aiming to clear 50% by Xmas 2012 :j
  • catmort
    catmort Posts: 80 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Karrie2129 wrote: »
    811 swag bucks already! :T

    Wow! How??
    Debt Free by Xmas 2012 member #281: £6,627.08/£7,735.45 (85.67%)
  • Kerfuffle
    Kerfuffle Posts: 1,384 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud!
    unixgirluk wrote: »
    Just seen on the news that the MSE website has been sold!

    Yep, a nice little earner. Good luck to Martin and the missus.:T
  • NicoleWild
    NicoleWild Posts: 60 Forumite
    Okay I think I know partly where the problem lies.

    My Virgin deal is £35 a month with TV phone and Broadband util October 2012.

    My latest bills are as follows:

    £169 for 2 months worth.

    And since my last bill which is due to come out on the 6th of June I've used Charges since your last bill£54.93 this much.

    Time to phone up virgin I say and put a cap on the telephone usage
  • SpagBol
    SpagBol Posts: 1,371 Forumite
    A payment made from DH's payday:

    #084 £9151 / £58000

    :j

    Now I'm off to bed!
    DMP started Oct '17: £79,974 :eek::eek::eek::eek::eek:
  • jakes-mum
    jakes-mum Posts: 4,646 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Do you have kids Nicole? thats one hefty bill :eek: def phone cap time :(

    OK why is there always one cheeky so and so who emails you on e*ay and offers you a cheeky price (in cash as if that makes it sweeter) for what your selling? Ive put up my auction with a starting price of what I am willing to accept and lo and behold a 3 word offer (which also annoys me as it just makes me think hes gone down the list copy and pasting his offer) £500 less than my starting price.
    Im afraid my response was equally as abrupt as im selling it cheap as it is :(
    SPC No 002 SPC(3) £285/£250 (4) £519.84/£500 (5) £768.32/£500 (6) £911.30/£600 (7) £913.23/£600 (8) £1184.82/£750 (9) £2864.04/£750 (10) £3846.25/£1000 (11) £1779.72/£1000 (12) £1596.55/£1000 (13) £1534.70/£1000 (14) £775.60/£1000 (15) £700.20/£1000 (16) £2081.34/£1000 (17) £1691.15/£1000 (18) £2470.95/£1000 (19) £0/£1000
  • NicoleWild
    NicoleWild Posts: 60 Forumite
    I do but they are 2 and 6 years old LOL

    It's me.. I've just phoned up and I'm not paying £2.50 a month to ban all outgoing calls to mobiles but he has given me a pin thing to put in so if we ever need in an emergency to do it we can unblock it for one call.

    I hoped there was an option to ban on amount, say if I spent £20 on my phone in a month it would automatically ban all outgoing calls but apparently Virgin don't have this
  • camuk81
    camuk81 Posts: 1,559 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Maybe a review of your tariff could help too, or lok at a cheap top up phone just for mobiles.

    Well no debt busting but a stinking headache, whilst debt busting I've been campaigning for faster broadband in my local area as we are being bypassed for fibre which is impacting on my work and means I have to run two phone lines.
    So went to a meeting last might with 3 MP, a man from the BDUK funding and two people from BT. Usual corporate spiel but after a lot back and forth BT changed their mind.

    So to celebrate got a bottle of wine and woken up with a sore head. On the plus side husband got a cash bonus so need to pop some money in the bank which will be Wednesday now so gotta wait for more debt busting
  • NicoleWild
    NicoleWild Posts: 60 Forumite
    Well done :)


    I have a contract phone which ismy t-mobile that I use for work as I can claim it back as an expense. And I have an O2 top up phone but I just seem to use them all a lot... Maybe I should stop speaking to so many peopleLOL
  • camuk81
    camuk81 Posts: 1,559 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Have a look at what you are doing, can you sign into your O2 online and review it?

    I had a look ay my mobile at the back end of last year I was paying over £70 a month. Now on one of their new deals with 900 minutes and unlimited text for £34.00 and thats reckless there are cheaper deals. Have a look at gift gaff or do a comparison.

    Well on the subject of review just opened the letter from the tax man and I have gone from being a K385 to a K406 to a 9T. Long and short next month salary will go back up by £72.89. Though I'm sure that will change again its only the 6th notice I've had this year!
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