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The 'extra payment every week' challenge 2013

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  • kem10
    kem10 Posts: 70 Forumite
    Resisted a Starbucks today so I'm putting across the £2.30 I saved by not caving :)
    [STRIKE]Credit Card 17.9% = £460 paid off 2013[/STRIKE]!
    £1000 overdraft 0% = 0/£1000
    Owe parents for car = £410/£2950
    Owe SAAS £240/£548
    BF Lend £0/£200

    And I'm still pretending my student loan doesn't exist until I earn enough that they ask for it! :p
  • LoLo
    LoLo Posts: 545 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    Am I too late to join in? I don't have an amount in mind but anything extra will be great and help to clear the debt.
  • Never too late Lolo, welcome aboard Xx
    Debts @ LBM £23,729.31. Debts @ 08/04/2016 £0 :j
    Best win so far - holiday to Florida
  • kem10
    kem10 Posts: 70 Forumite
    Anyone managed any extra payments yet this week? :)

    I'm waiting til Sunday to see what there is left in my account... been an expensive week (signed up for the moonlight prowl a 13 mile midnight walk and bought a gig ticket -oops-!) but hopefully be some left in there to put across.

    Excited at the thought of getting this credit card paid off and this extra payment per week is really helping, I'd never have thought of putting 2.30 across before as it didn't seem 'worth' it but it most definitely is, love this challenge :)
    [STRIKE]Credit Card 17.9% = £460 paid off 2013[/STRIKE]!
    £1000 overdraft 0% = 0/£1000
    Owe parents for car = £410/£2950
    Owe SAAS £240/£548
    BF Lend £0/£200

    And I'm still pretending my student loan doesn't exist until I earn enough that they ask for it! :p
  • julie2710
    julie2710 Posts: 1,381 Forumite
    Where is this week going? I can't believe it's Friday tomorrow! Anyway bank account checked, some money withdrawn from PayPal and an extra payment of £10 made to my card :)
    MBNA [STRIKE]£2,029[/STRIKE] £1,145 Virgin [STRIKE]£8,712[/STRIKE] £7,957 Sainsbury [STRIKE]£6,870[/STRIKE] £5,575 M&S [STRIKE]£10,016[/STRIKE] £9,690 Barclaycard [STRIKE]£11,951[/STRIKE] £11,628 CTC [STRIKE]£7,629[/STRIKE] £6,789 Mortgage £[STRIKE]182,828[/STRIKE] £171,670
    LBM Dec12 excl mort 47,207/42,784 Dec13
    Excl mortg and CTC 39,578/35,995 Dec13
    Incl mortg 230,035/214,454 Dec13

    Extra payment a week:this week £0 / YTD£1,457.55
  • jaxsmar
    jaxsmar Posts: 518 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    65p for me this week:eek: Holiday times are always so much more difficult not that mine are little children I did buy some blinds for the living room and a KFC, train fares so it all adds to a expensive weeks. I did stay in for 6 days straight I was climbing the walls, my sister is really down at the mo looks like she will be evicted from her council flat, and my best friends son committed suicide Easter weekend.... I just needed to run away from everyone..I sound like a crap friend as my sister and friend cant run away from their problems. I just needed space to re-group clear my head, and I went on a spending spree... Oh well not much I can so now except be supportive to those around me, count my blessing and carry on.
    Penny wise pound foolish. 366 days 1p challenge 2020/21/22/23 completed.
    No.13 1p a day challenge 2024
    No. 24 52 week savings challenge completed August 24
    No.16 1p a day savings challenge.
  • ToniLiz
    ToniLiz Posts: 107 Forumite
    Oh my, Jaxsmar, sounds like you're having a tough time at the moment. I hope things get a little easier for you/your sister/your best friend soon x

    (Managed a little bank account skim of £5.49 today).
    Sealed Pot Challenge - No: 223 :)

    2015 - £179.55
    2014 - £363.98
    2013 - £258.13
  • Oh my goodness Jaxmar, what a terrible time you are having. Hugs Xx

    Paid £6.78 off debts today. I'm struggling at the moment also with it being school holiday. Really want my debt to be sub £10k this month though so got to keep finding little bits to pay off Xx
    Debts @ LBM £23,729.31. Debts @ 08/04/2016 £0 :j
    Best win so far - holiday to Florida
  • ((Hugs)) to Jaxmar- sounds like you're having a rough time. Sometimes everything happens at once and you just need to run away for a bit and get your head together.

    £6.35 bank account skin from me this week.
    MFW 2024 £27500/7500 Mortgage £129,500 Jan 22 Final payment June 38 Now £68489.08 FP May 36 Emergency Fund £20,000 100% Added to ISA 24 £8,060 Save 12k in 24 #31 £20,034.76/20,000 Debt Free 31.07.14
  • jaxsmar
    jaxsmar Posts: 518 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    :heart2: Thank you for your support feel better today my heart just goes out to my friend, it's that feeling of being 'useless' what the hell do you say to someone who's son killed himself..words just don't seem enough.
    My friend didn't even get to say 'goodbye' to her boy...it didn't happen in this country his ashes will be coming back home, hopefully the funeral service will give her some peace, and she is a fighter. It makes you realise how fragile human life can be. THANKYOU.
    Penny wise pound foolish. 366 days 1p challenge 2020/21/22/23 completed.
    No.13 1p a day challenge 2024
    No. 24 52 week savings challenge completed August 24
    No.16 1p a day savings challenge.
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