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The 1% Challenge - 100 ways to make your 1%
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            First 1% Paid £3.25
 CC £321.55 to go218monthstogo (Government Retirement Date 2034)
 Change of Attitude for 2016: Pay, Save,& Invest
 Work on Net Worth: Assets - Liabilities.
 Totals 1st April 2016 £8091, May £8703, June £9343, July £101590
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            £3.25 paid from coins in savings pot.
 2% paid / 98% to go218monthstogo (Government Retirement Date 2034)
 Change of Attitude for 2016: Pay, Save,& Invest
 Work on Net Worth: Assets - Liabilities.
 Totals 1st April 2016 £8091, May £8703, June £9343, July £101590
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            Update January 2016 ; I haven't posted for a while and things have changed a bit, however
 #196 now £3532.39 / 6200 57%/100%
 getting there slowly!
 Savings goal £30,000 1% = £300.
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            22% paid for me as of this morning....getting there!Let’s just pretend I have not been alternately drowning in debt or only eating toast to try and pay it off for the last 20 years 😭0
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            Hi, I really like the idea of 1% at a time, it feels really manageable. I'd like to sign up please 2016 Goals 2016 Goals
 1. PAYDBX 2016 #125 Paid :j
 2. save £8,068/£10,566=76%.
 3. Save £500 with Park. £420/£5000
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            24% for me as of this morning - almost a quarter of the way there!Let’s just pretend I have not been alternately drowning in debt or only eating toast to try and pay it off for the last 20 years 😭0
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            I've paid of 20% of my debt today. I can't pay another large amount until March 1st but I will be working on 1% at a time. £18.57 is 1% of my current debt so I will try to pay that off weekly 2016 Goals 2016 Goals
 1. PAYDBX 2016 #125 Paid :j
 2. save £8,068/£10,566=76%.
 3. Save £500 with Park. £420/£5000
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            Sold a couple of very old mobile phones and used some of the money to pay another 1% of My CC and 1% of CC in Hubbies name.
 So
 CC1 1% £3.25 now 97% to go
 CC2 1% £7.00 now 99% to go
 In our quest to do both pay down and invest going to invest the other £10 in our rainy day fund, and then theres enough for a chocolate bar each.218monthstogo (Government Retirement Date 2034)
 Change of Attitude for 2016: Pay, Save,& Invest
 Work on Net Worth: Assets - Liabilities.
 Totals 1st April 2016 £8091, May £8703, June £9343, July £101590
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            25% for me Let’s just pretend I have not been alternately drowning in debt or only eating toast to try and pay it off for the last 20 years 😭0 Let’s just pretend I have not been alternately drowning in debt or only eating toast to try and pay it off for the last 20 years 😭0
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            Hi all,
 an unexpected client payment meant that I could pay some more debt off today. Almost 7% paid today 
 £645/£2,341 = 27% paid off so far2016 Goals
 1. PAYDBX 2016 #125 Paid :j
 2. save £8,068/£10,566=76%.
 3. Save £500 with Park. £420/£5000
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