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  • angelpye
    angelpye Posts: 997 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Hey NSK count me in! Will recharge my determination batteries and declare the usualFriday! Not declaring a clear budget was my first step to failure for may :(
    Happiness is wanting what you have...
  • Me please NSK - I know I can't report in every single day but this challenge really helps keep me on the straight and narrow.
    Ninja Saving Turtle
  • Mee too please - will go back and read the small print now but Im in!! :)
    Debt free on the 28/05/13
  • Can I join Sparta Kat? I've just read your opening passage & LOVED IT - just what I need to refocus & pay off those £££

    KUTAT x
    Xmas 2016 #67 £0/£365
    LBM £29,598 :shocked: (29.05.15) DFD June 2021
    29.12.15 - B/card 1 £6813 B/card 2 £3575 Virgin CC £13658 Loan £5842 Next £0 OD £200
    20.06.15 - B/card 1 £4139 B/card 2 £4025 Virgin CC £13100 Loan £7303 Next £58 OD £200
    Diary http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=5256548
  • krustylouise
    krustylouise Posts: 1,501 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I'll try this again please? I failed in April but since my car packed in I have a new found frugalness about me. £70 for food for month

    PAD 2023 Debt total as of Dec 2022 £18,988.63*April £17,711.03

    Halifax CC £3168.21

    Halifax loan £6095.47

    Car finance £7639.02

    Next £0/£808.33


    #22 - 1p savings challenge 2023 £166.95/£667.95

    Saving for Christmas - £1 a day savings challenge 2023 £50/£1000

  • flyingember
    flyingember Posts: 47 Forumite
    May I join please? I'll have to work my budget out and post the numbers on Friday as I am new to this.

    Many thanks

    FE
    Debt May '13 £1121
    DFD Jan 14
  • nannygladys
    nannygladys Posts: 3,235 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Hi everyone, can I join in again this month, May was a bit of a disaster for me what with one thing and another, but as I have no money of my own - just the banks - (my OD) I really need this month to be tight, oh so tight!!!!!
    nannyg
    £1 a day 2025: £90.00/365 Xmas fund
  • Im in please, will sort budget over next few days xxx
    Halifax CC All paid Mort £7669.99,Car loan 31 months to go
    Food 99.25/100 Petrol 133.12/150 presents 59.12/80 going out 73.75/150 toiletries 4.50/5 other 179.07/100 money made 480 SFD 11/20
  • shinner
    shinner Posts: 670 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary Combo Breaker
    Hi think you can count me in lol. Need to read over the rules a few times and work out budgets. May has been a bad month. x
    sealed pot challenge 099
    2013 £365 in total
    2014 ???? Target £400
    debt 1 [STRIKE]6753[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]6386[/STRIKE] 0000 debt 2 [STRIKE]4973[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]4731[/STRIKE] 0000 debt 3 [STRIKE]3673[/STRIKE] 0000 debt 4 [STRIKE]2400[/STRIKE] [STRIKE]2239[/STRIKE] 0000
    OH debt [STRIKE]3800[/STRIKE]2780
    Bank of Mum [STRIKE]£2750[/STRIKE] 2000
  • Hi Kat (& regular challengers!),
    Count me in again please - my birthday month & commited to get back on the wagon following a disasterous May.
    Love the opening Quote btw.
    Budget will go up on Friday.
    :idea:LBM @1/4/13 £15,754 :eek:
    This is SPARTA #20 SFD=7/20 Groceries =17.82/50 Planned Spends 231.00/500
    1 Debt 100 Days £500/£5907 8.5%
    DFD = December 2014
    "The real pleasure-seeking is the combination of luxury and austerity in such a way that the luxury can really be felt"-G.K. Chesterton
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