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

Barbeduk

Wow, I pop in for a quick catch up and there's so much good news!

:j:j:beer:Well Done Katie :beer::j:j

Congratulations canucksfan

:bdaycake: Happy Birthday Trying Hard

So great to see everyone doing well, I'm still struggling to build up my emergency fund at the mo. sadly we are owed money but will hopefully get that on Friday.

Will have to keep checking in for more baby news! Both mine were late, someone told me if I ate a whole pineapple it would start things moving, can't recommend it :rotfl::rotfl:.

LunaLady

Hi there.

Is it possible for me to join this challenge. I dont know if I will clear everything by Christmas but it will give me a boost of motivation.

mf0u1098

LunaLady wrote: »

Hi there.

Is it possible for me to join this challenge. I dont know if I will clear everything by Christmas but it will give me a boost of motivation.

Hey LunaLady, of course you can join us! How much is your debt so I can add you to the first page? I'm knackered so am off to bed now but will update tomorrow evening.

Glad to have you on the team! xxx

Shrewbie

Welcome Lunalady! :wave:
Of course you can join - lots on here are just set on paying a portion of their debt off by xmas, myself included. Welcome to the team!

LunaLady

mf0u1098 wrote: »

Hey LunaLady, of course you can join us! How much is your debt so I can add you to the first page? I'm knackered so am off to bed now but will update tomorrow evening.

Glad to have you on the team! xxx

Thanks very much for the welcome

My total debt is £2556.41

Hopefully by Christmas it will be much less.

mumof3plusoh

Welcome aboard LunaLady;)

BrandNewStart

Hello all, new post from me ce soir:https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/53775491#Comment_53775491

Hope everyone is OK and doing well with the saving

Welcome LunaLady, the natives are friendly here (in a crazy kinda way )

Congratulations Katie! You should be so proud of yourself

Thanks for updating the list Jemma, it is a good motivator!

Annelien

Hi all!

Finally had my money become available that was stuck in Belgium, so managed to pay quite a few things off!

So the new total is:

226 Annelien £4243.5 / £16,904.29

:j :j

(just over £3k of that amount was paid off today it was very exciting !!!)

Hopefully next month we will be able to pay off something else completely, but in the mean time it's bits and pieces again until we win the lottery

suzitiger

Hellooooooo out there my lovely forumites :wave: It's been a while but I have been reading my emails every day, needed to come on and do some 'thanking' tho :rotfl:

Congrats Jemma for your pending Auntie status :-) All the Childbirth chat on here recently has had me creasing up :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: ohhhhhh you guys....

Congrats Katie on becoming Debt free whoop whoop, you have done AMAZINGLY well to get down from 23k to zero, please stay with us and help the rest of us out

loubie_lou wrote: »

I've been waiting six months to try and get my bleeding tax refund. I swear they dilly dally on purpose.......?!

Yes Loubie, yes they do :mad:

kerri_dfw wrote: »

Hmm I appear to have disappeared for a few days, sorry! I will catch up when work calms down.

This weeks task; paper shuffle

Sort out all that dodgy paperwork that's been collecting in piles, shoved into cupboards. Sort it, shred it, bin it, file it away

Nice and easy. I bet Jakes-Mum already does this one though.....but I bet she can't find a reason why she can't partake this week

If I don't do this task please shoot me as my house is OVERFLOWING with paperwork I will keep you updated about how I am doing

psychopathbabble wrote: »

I'm here, lurking a bit. Getting more and more annoyed with a bank I shall not name.... messing up my money on holiday and now still messing it up now I'm back.

Also been a teeny bit spendy, as I bought 1-3 of True Blood, 1-4 of the Big Bang Theory and old skool 21 jump Street with Mr Depp himself to watch while I'm recovering after hospital. Had my pre-op assessment on Monday and provided all those tests come back ok, I shall be in on Wednesday next week for the afternoon.

Hope everyone is ok

Had a peek at ur holiday pics, I LOVE thailand, I lived out there for a bit so I am super jealous :-) I had a wee bit of a spend the other day in waterstones and I will be getting some lush forum stuff on friday too eeeeep! tut tut tut (that's at me not you haha) but hey, I am going to be selling lots of my bits on ebay and paying debt with that so im not allowed to read any of my new books or use any of the lush stuff until i get cracking with that hahaha! :-)

I managed to go out last night for a leaving do and get very merry without spending any money :dance: so thats my good news for the week.
Bad news is i was nearly sick at the opticians today cuz she rolled my eyelids up to take a look, yeauck this was almost as bad as getting a jab done! Anyone ever had this done before??

Love you all, nighty night :happyhear

his_missus

Morning all!

Just realised tomorrow is payday :j so tonight I'm going to take a long hard look at my finances (again!) and this month I'm
a) going to stick to my budget
b) going to set a specific amount for shopping and fun each week and stick to it
c) not go over budget buying DH's birthday pressies
d) pay a generous amount off the CC and,
e) replenish the rainy day/holiday fund or at least contribute to it.

I think I'm setting myself up for a fall but hey ho! :rotfl:

xxx