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  • plum44_2
    plum44_2 Posts: 124 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    BRILLIANT!!!! your post is great news. Good luck with your saving x
    LBM Nov 10 owing £34,043 - (DMP with Stepchange)

    Finally debt free 14/12/12:beer:
  • mummum2
    mummum2 Posts: 617 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Great news! enjoy your DF life! :j:beer: Good luck with the mortgage saving! :T
    Long Hauler No: 51
    DMP Mutal Support Thread No: 207
    Proud to be dealing with my debts
    DFD - June '13, aiming for December '12
  • Congrats

    But I would close off all lines of credit!
  • Aamberle
    Aamberle Posts: 559 Forumite
    Well Done - Be really proud of what you have achieved. And Good Luck with the mortgage saving..
    2012 The year I started dealing with my debts.
    2017. Lets start this again shall we?

    Debt 1 Cleared 2/1/17 £480 Gone forever :j
    Debt 2 100/598
  • Gelly123
    Gelly123 Posts: 387 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Congratulations - that's great news.

    The light at the end of the tunnel does arrive but that tunnel sometimes seems so long!

    Best wishes
    Gelly
    x
    Married Sept '09, Me - 38, OH - 40, TTC since Nov '12
    4 previous MC's, 6 babies lost so far :A
    The proudest mummy - July 2016 xxx
  • lamarsi
    lamarsi Posts: 805 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker Mortgage-free Glee!
    well done!! hoping to be able to post the same some day!!
    get rid of all the pounds by summer !!
    weight loss 3/42 lb
    Debt from 1st March:
    Was -£8900 NOW-£5000 PAID- £3900
    Get rid of the weight, pay the debt, then get myself a campavan! :T
  • Mort
    Mort Posts: 552 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Congratulations. :j:beer::j


    Don't forget to join the Debt Free Roll of Honour https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/291326
    Proud to have dealt with my debts, became debt free on 03/11/2011. Repaid £54,723.41 LBM May 2006.
    Debt Free Roll Of Honour #504
    Mortgage Free from October 2019
  • Congratulations, Your an inspiration to us all!..
    Mortgage: Aug 12 £114,984.74 - Jun 14 £94000.00 = Total Payments £20984.74

    Albert Einstein - “Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.”
  • I am a new user on here and we are trying to get debt free - something which is going to take a very long time - does anyone have any tips?
  • Thegirl
    Thegirl Posts: 143 Forumite
    Congratulations!
    If I cut you out of my life I can guarantee you handed me the scissors
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