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When's your Debt Free Date?
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I will be debt free 1 Jan 2016. Then, leave for Australia 1 April 2016.0
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My DFD is 7th Jan 15, when I sell my car pay off the rest of the loan on it (just over £2000 and hoping to sell for just over £6000) then a week later get on a jet plane and fly away!!!!! :TThanks to money saving tips and debt repayments/becoming debt free I have been able to work and travel for the last 4 years visiting 12 countries and working within 3 of them. Currently living and working in Canada :beer: :dance:0
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Total debt £20700. DFD August 2016:eek::eek:0
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My DFD is currently December 2016, but that is going by bare minimum payments...I am hoping to shave at least 6 months off by overpaying and throwing in the odd extra payment when I can
DFD - 12/2016 with 6.7% paid as of 07/14
£ saved = 168.16 lbs lost = 4
Weekly Spend Challenge(7/9) £20/£0
Sept GC - £78.11/£300 Sept NSD's = 4
OS Weight Loss Challenge - 0lb/5lb0 -
June 2017 :-(
But my credit cards should all pay off between March and August 2016, leaving just my (now defaulted) loan.LBM:1/1/12Debts @ LBM:£43,546 :eek: Debts now: £9,486 :cool: 78% PAIDFound YNAB 1/2/14 - the best thing EVER!0 -
Officially it's march 2015 but I'm trying to do it by the end of this year.1 debt v's 100 days chapter 34: T3sco bank CC £250/£525.24 47.59%
[STRIKE]MBNA - [/STRIKE]GONE, [STRIKE]CAP ONE[/STRIKE] GONE, [STRIKE]YORKS BANK [/STRIKE]GONE, [STRIKE]VANQUIS[/STRIKE] GONE [STRIKE] TESCO - [/STRIKE], GONE
TSB CARD, TSB LOAN, LLOYDS. FIVE DOWN, THREE TO GO.0 -
Mine has been and gone.
I became DF in June 2013.
With the help of Pay Plan I repaid £24k in 90 months.0 -
I start my DMP with SC in September and my DFD is July 2018. I'm determined to bring this down though LBM July 14
DMP 01.09.14 47 payments to Debt Free0 -
About 2 years 6 months away, but am aiming for 24 months - i.e. September 2016 at around £500/month via Step Change... Obviously, if I can clear them faster I will... can't wait. Should have done this a long time ago!
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15th August- payday! 26 grand. Part with Payplan, part by myself. Can't wait!!0
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