Starting again, 1% at a time. 100 ways to make £80!

thrifty-gal26

Happy New Year!

Doing a new 1% for 2013 (started in December) and will be £7000 so 1% is £70.

Have 6% so far

Little_Miss_Uni-Debt

Percenters Progress
**The Official 2012 Round Up**

Wow, wow & triple wow! Firstly, I'd like to say just how much you have all blown me away with your support, ideas and ethusiasm - which frankly has kept me on my toes & moving forward better than anything has ever before! Thank You

I will of course now do our usual update...

We have had 24 updates and 17 special new joiners that have kindly de-lurked and helped us to blitz our target of 200.

We are now at a cozy 211 percenters strong. So much so we are busting outa the list on page 1 (had to re-jig the text to fit us all in!) I think some countries have smaller armies! :rotfl:

This means when I win the lottery & throw a party for us all, the village hall won't cut it anymore, I'm keeping the 02 arena on standby

Please say a big 'Hello' to our new folks that have started the year in style - with the right kind of new addiction!

Maddie57, MelodramaticMe, Rushy, GreenSaints, Saz186, SophiesMum, Could Save More, Ninno820, Vics199, Pisces72, Debtisgoing, WillGetThere, Purple.Sarah, Utopiah, HoneyPiSquared, VW Campervan Mum and Stressed Steph.

**Year End Stats**

As a total Excel fiend, I like working out numbers and I wanted to get some interesting insights into the updates we've all been posting.

I think it helps me best when I put money into context. Just like the 1% idea as a whole, it's all pie in the sky until you compare what you're spending with a manageable & meaningful figure. Then it hits home & creates motivation.

I hope these stats can put into context just how much we have achieved as a whole! Frankly, I'm still picking my jaw up off the floor.

98 Pages
1950 Posts
6 Months Running
211 Members
99 Active Participants
7 Members have reached their 100%

Together we have paid off a staggering.......

£84, 347.09

Yes, that's right. Over eighty four thousand pounds either paid or saved. :T:T:T Crazy right? That's like an entire mortgage or several new cars. As a group our 1% is a mere £5264.76!! Pocket change huh, no sweat . Which means we're collectively at 16%. Those are hefty figures we've pulled in. You all should be super proud.

Please keep on suggesting your ideas, the list will hopefully continue to grow.

Love you all, your support is really appreciated & totally awesome.

Little Miss xx

Now lets scare the crap outa 2013

fedupandskint

Amazing stats LMUD!

Well, I for one am ready to scare the crap outa 2013 as I will pay off one cc over the next few months then onto the next ones. I'll be ebaying away too to continue colouring my squares. It's not sad at all, that's my favourite bit!

Bring on the debt busting and make my money my own!

sophiasmum

Thanks for the welcome ! & Happy New Year to everyone.
Today I will be mainly cleaning and putting stuff on ebay - need to get my 1st 1%. So motivated ....

liz-paul

Wow thats amazing to see our collective total!!!!! And I for one can safely say that without this thread I wouldn't have started on my quest at all :beer:

Thanks again little miss and everyone else who keeps this going. Am hoping to increase from 14% to 30% over this year. Hope I'm not all by myself by then

StressedSteph

WOW, all I can think is thats 84k NOT in the greedy hands of credit card companies, loan sharks and Payday loans. :T:T:T:T:T.

Children Tax credit paid me a week early today, so I made a extra £300 payment off Littlewoods catalogue this morning.
That officially takes me to 5% paid off and have only been doing it a couple of weeks :j:j
I had great fun colouring in two more of my little boxes.

Roll on 2013, I am gonna use up all the ink in my pink felt tip pen colouring in my boxes:rotfl:

Thanks so much Little Miss for all the stats, very interesting reading. thank you so much for inspiring us :beer:

NikkeiPositivity

Good Afternoon and Happy 2013 everyone!!!

I hope you all had a lovely New Years

So I went through my spreadsheets yesterday and did some re-jigging so we can use it more effectively. I then redid the snowball calculator to give us motivation for that debt free date.

Number 99
Total Credit Card Debt @ 31st December 2012: £13,859.46
New 1%: 138.59

We're aiming for a debt free debt this year between September and December and it's all because of this challenge

Thank you so much Little Miss x

happytails

Happy new year folks :beer:

vics199

Well ebay sales are going well for me this week compared to December. Have 25 items ending tomorrow so keeping my fingers crossed that I can make maybe 2% out of that. Although very skint this month so it could end up having to pay for a different debt instead to make my monthly minimums. But it all helps I suppose! (I've picked only one debt for my 1% challenge this year).

Right, need to update my signature.

happytails

£3.30 earned today after postage. A Further £3.20 waiting to be paid off a lady for some baby bits but doubt that'll be today. Got a £4 bid on an item on eBay that ends tomorrow, baby steps.

Sarah x

Debt 3 currently owe £900 so new percentage of 9% for this please little miss uni det, if you don't mind changing it. As setting myself a dealine of 31/03 thanks