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Mrs PG's Hopes & Dreams for a debt free future !

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  • apple_muncher
    apple_muncher Posts: 15,368 Forumite
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    So sorry to hear about your mum. Sending you all lots of hugs x
    NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    So so sorry to read that post. Take care and try and take it easy on yourself for a good while. Debt busting can wait whilst you recover.

    It's been a very hard few years for you, we know, and I know you will be OK.

    Much much love from us all xxxxxx
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • HappyNow
    HappyNow Posts: 1,558 Forumite
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    Thinking of you xx
    LBM Dec 2011. Aimed, but failed, to clear all unsecured debt by Feb 2019. Finally free of unsecured debt 21st May 21!

    Debt Dec 11: Unsecured £69,579 + Mortgage £59,948 = £129,527
    Debt May 21: Unsecured ZERO! ZILCH! Mortgage £22,332
  • Honey_Bear
    Honey_Bear Posts: 7,601 Forumite
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    Oh Pinot, the combination of your bereavement and the horrible muddle over no-one knowing what the other people are doing sounds as depressing and exhausting as anything could possibly be - badly phrased but I hope you know what I mean. (((Hugs))) for you all.
    Better is good enough.
  • Muser1
    Muser1 Posts: 795 Forumite
    I'm so sorry for your loss x
    Mortgage Jan 13 99260.00 87253 April 2017
    Emergency fund 700.00
  • NoOneAround
    NoOneAround Posts: 1,844 Forumite
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    Oh Mrs PG I am so very sorry about your mum, and only 2 years since after your dad.
    Your post about DDs sharing everything with grandparents made me cry, because my parents also form a daily part of our lives, with a phone call most days, and the sharing of daily minutiae is an important ritual. I dread the future when they will no longer be there.
    Thinking of you and your family.
    Lots of love and hugs
    NOA
    x
    Feb2014 Total unsecured debt £72,520>>01/06/16 £68166>01/02/17 £66,600=8.18%PAID
    Mortgage Jan14=209,800 Jan15=£200,300 Jan17£180,700>OCT17 £170,200
    Health/Fitness Challenges Priority#1 Stay Fit and healthy - whatever it takes:)
    Wombling Free Cash May2016 £51
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Sending hugs and thoughts x
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • brizzledfw
    brizzledfw Posts: 7,302 Forumite
    Debt-free and Proud!
    Hope things are improving...

    Hugs

    Xxx
    MFiT-T4 Member No. 96 - 2022 is my MF goal :D
    Winter 17/18 Savings Rate Goal: 25% [October 30%] :T
    Declutter 60 items before 31.03.18 9/60 ** LSDs Target 10 for March 03/10 **AFDs 10/15 ** Sales/TCB Target 2018 £25/£500 NSDs Target 10 for March 02/10 Trying to be a Frugalista:rotfl::T
  • sweetpea26
    sweetpea26 Posts: 831 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Rampant Recycler
    please accept my deepest sympathy PG. My thoughts are with you. We had a death in our home a few months ago and now face terminal illness with my mother. Life can be very tough


    God bless you and your family.
  • beccasmum33
    beccasmum33 Posts: 1 Newbie
    Just a quick note to say life is tough but you can get through it. I lost my daughter through suicide six years ago, could not work, cards and bills etc mounted and in the end, I owed nearly 20K! However, with strict perseveranc
    e, a wonderful husband who could pay all the household bills, I have cleared everything. It took a long time, included cashing in two pensions (which were not large anyway) and I had the satisfaction of taking my bank for 3.5K for PPI! Got one more credit card to go after....stick with it folks...although, I would rather be homeless and penniless it meant my babe was back with me
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