Single DFW

miniscule_mule

Paddlingfuriously - you have inspired me to create a signature with my debts on so it can smack me in the face whenever I'm here.

I'm 'managing' with them, but need to try and get them down a bit quicker than I am at the moment, otherwise my DFD is looking like being sometime in 2017 (at least), and by then I'll be pushing forty...

paddlingfuriously

miniscule_mule wrote: »

Paddlingfuriously - you have inspired me to create a signature with my debts on so it can smack me in the face whenever I'm here.

I'm 'managing' with them, but need to try and get them down a bit quicker than I am at the moment, otherwise my DFD is looking like being sometime in 2017 (at least), and by then I'll be pushing forty...

Do it and we can egg each other on! :T

I'm going to pay what I can when I can - anything is better than nothing and at least it won't be sitting in my bank account waiting to be spent on something unecessary (and probably calorific!)

miniscule_mule

paddlingfuriously wrote: »

Do it and we can egg each other on! :T

I'm going to pay what I can when I can - anything is better than nothing and at least it won't be sitting in my bank account waiting to be spent on something unecessary (and probably calorific!)

I might have to get some oomph from seeing your levels going down - I think you'll be much quicker at it than me!! My downfall is CDs, recently had enhanced pay from work for additional responsibility so along with paying a bit more off my c/c and tucking some into savings (want to go back to NZ in 2014) I have been buying CDs and tickets for things next year

Still, better than still buying those things but just chucking them on the card!

falldown7timesgetup8

paddlingfuriously wrote: »

Ah thank you! Will join in the challenge to pay a CC off by Christmas. I also have to save between now and mid December as I am off to the US to visit a friend. Not ideal, but it's making me stay in more and makes sure I take lunch to work with me. Hoping this will help change the habits of a lifetime and be better with money longterm once this is paid off. Am 32 next month and really need to start saving!

yayyy! So happy i have a friend on my CC challenge! :beer:
Ive updated my signature too to signify my challenge and the CC that im attacking - check out the christmas tree!

vasseur

Can I join you too (if only briefly)? I wish I'd found a thread like this a couple of years ago when I first decided to seriously tackle my debt. As it is I 'think' I'll be debt free by 24 November this year :j. Then I'm going to start overpaying the mortgage, once I've given myself a few months to get used to the extra money I'll have....

I definitely think it's easier to tackle debt when you're single. It's so much easier to be in control of things and if you can't afford to go out then you don't! I can pretty much have a 'no spend weekend' if I need to

falldown7timesgetup8

welcome polesalot!
I intend on sticking around once im debt free or if i find a man :j
So join for as long as you like!
SO exciting that you are nearly DF WOW!
Bet you cant wait to add your name to the roll of honour! :T

vasseur

Thanks for the welcome!

My debt wasn't really that big a figure - although it was big enough for me to feel uncomfortable with it. I'm a single parent working full time so as well as the added expense of childcare and other child related expenses there's also the fact that I don't have any spare time for a second job etc in order to earn more money to throw at the debt.

Almost there anyway...maybe I will hang around to impart some of my wisdom :rotfl:although most things I have learnt are from the amazing people on these forums. The Debt Free diaries are extremely motivational.

Loopylou1

WOW! big welcome to:

shoegal
devis
wellylass89
paddlingfuriously
Miniscule_mule and everhopeful 09!

:wave:

i feel so much better to know your all in the same place! (in an odd way!! :rotfl:):T

I'm 31 and I would like to meet a man but have been let down so many times! Now I am miss independant

*breaks in to Destiny's Child Song* :rotfl:

Made an edit to my sig - what do you reckon?

I am also up for the CC challenge by Christmas gang"

vasseur

Much better to be independent....so much less hassle...doesn't mean men are a no-no though...I think a lot of them like an independent woman...some just find us a bit scary

Loopylou1

polesalot wrote: »

Much better to be independent....so much less hassle...doesn't mean men are a no-no though...I think a lot of them like an independent woman...some just find us a bit scary

"The shoes on my feet (I bought em).....Coz I depend on me.."

I wish work hadn't have blocked the forums this week I think its great we are all here!

Ok so...

whats the one thing thats kind of MSE you do that you wouldn't have dreamed of doing when you had a partner??

Mine is my onesie!! as soon as I get home it goes on..its too big and I look like a bright green telly tubby but I don't care its warm and means my heating isn't on! I even forgot I had it on and opened to do to the pizza boy (I know not very MSE) i don't know who was more embarrased!! :rotfl: