The 1% Challenge - 100 ways to make your 1%

kittiej

Hi everyone, another lovely day in sunny Wales :j

The lovely husband of mine wanted to talk finances yesterday - wonders will never cease , and he is committed to paying off the car debt asap which means 4th July unless something massive crops up.

So 4 more paydays (weekly pay) and it *should* be gone :T £1225 to go.

We can attack the mortgage then, woo-hoo!

liz-paul

Hi folks - I have another 1% which takes me to 21%

craftingmad

Hi all,

Quick update from me as got to get kids to bed - I was at two craft fairs over this weekend (Friday and Monday) and now have the grand total of £40 to add to the pot. Every little helps I suppose.

It was also my daughter's birthday party today and we ordered take away pizza. I did however search the internet to find a BOGOF voucher so we saved £49.96.

Hopefully I will get to pay all this cash into the savings pot very soon.

Well done everyone on your %'s - keep going - we will all get there one day xx

FallenArcher

Good morning percenters!!! I just wanted to drop me to tell you my good news - as of the start of this month we are now debt free :j:j:j

#164 declaring an extra 8.5% overpayments, so 67% made and paid!

We were able to make that last extra payment from wages.

We also had a bit of extra money from a carboot and ebay, which we used to take a couple of friends out for a lovely pub lunch - as they've paid for a few takeaways etc during our debt free journey! And have eaten out a couple of other times (within budget :rotfl:) to celebrate! We've also reclaimed our spare room by donating everything that we didn't sell to a charity shop. Awesome.

It really is a fantastic feeling knowing that as of our next pay day our money is ours to do what we want with.

And I guess our debt-free journey is a good example of what you can do when you put your mind to it!

Having a couple of months of being half frivilous but will be back soon with a savings challenge as we want to save up for a number of things, including a house deposit.

Good luck with your debt free journeys, and keep up the percenting - two thirds of my debt since LBM has gone purely from this challenge.

And also, a big welcome to the newbies, this really is a great challenge.

Bublin1

Just realised i posted my update in the old thread.
#157 is now at 21%

pozza_73

Well done FA. I bet it feels fantastic

nattiecake

Yay, finally got around to posting my music magpie stuff!
Not counting my %s til theyre in the bank, so still officially on 0%

pozza_73

Have just paid £64 off - which equates to 2% more.
Grand total of 3% paid
Hope to get to 5% by the end of June. Going to have a look through my clothes and sort them out into clothes that can be sold on ebay and ones that can go to Cash for clothes.

squeeeek

Well done Fallen Archer! I hope you're enjoying the new found freedom!

I don't have a number yet but I just popped in to update...

:j27% :j

So that's 73% to go and 4 paydays until I'm debt free (fingers crossed) !

kittiej

Hi everyone, it's raining woo-hoo :j:j

I just went on the Black Horse site to make a payment and they are doing maintenance or something so cannot pay online. It did give a number to phone but I'll wait until later. I've got 9% to pay off leaving me with £1000 to pay by 4th july.

Must remember to pay it later

Hope everyone is well