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Wooooohoooooooo!!!!!!
Just found the thread and came on to say me please to find you must have seen it earlier on the other thread and I am already in.
Thanks Kat.
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Now I better go read what I have agreed to.
Mortgage: £0/£80,329.91
Savings: £0/£6400
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Hello all! I'm in please, for the first time in ages.
I've been tracking my spending for the last two months, and have realised that I haven't actually been acknowledging my attitude to money, and how much I owe (mostly as it is to family and/or at 0%) I've been going through my budgets and varying DFDs.
So, I am aiming for:
15 SFDs
£80 grocery budget
£90 spends budget
:T“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off your goals.”
NSD Challenge: August 2017 2/150 -
Numbering will continue tomorrow morning.“Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent".0
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Count me in please NSK.April power shower #16 SFD 4/15 Food 185.59/280 Petrol 50/100 Lunches 4/10 Outings 0/300 De-clutter 1/15 FB 0/3 Exercise 0/8 Weight loss 2lbs/7lbs ME time 9/30hrs
CC 2918.37 2144.17 1647.14 DFD 31ST MAY 20140 -
Count me in too Kat!
My first thought was, there is NO WAY I can take more from my food budget. I stripped £20 off it last month, watched every single penny, and have come in £15 over, with less left to start the month than I had last month IYKWIM. But then I started thinking - I'm not at the back of the cupboard quite yet, and the meals that I do have in the freezer are all quite bulky things (pasta sauce etc). So I'm going to ponder the £20, do a meal plan, combining my planning with our calendar. It will come from somewhere, but currently the fuel budget feels more of a target than the food one (I am just well enough to cycle to work again)...DD and I have to eat!! She is doing fine (after all, is at her dads 3 nights a week usually) but I feel scurvy coming on if we cut the fresh stuff any further, and we need the joining together things - onions, tinned toms etc.0 -
I am the 13th Kat thanks:j
Debt as of Jan 17 £32990.71: :eek:
Debt as of June 2020 £186360 -
Please add me to the list!
thank you!NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!0 -
I am going to have another go at the challenge again this month.
ThanksSave £10,500 - £2673.77 - 25.5%
Pay off £7000 - £1743 - 19.4%
Make £2021 extra income - £99.750 -
Hi There,
Could I please join this month, lurked for last month and did quite well so time I put everything down on paper!
CheersDebt as at Feb 14: £2272.40DFW Nerd no. 1024June Overhaul #260 -
Hi NSK
Sign me up please. I'll be back to read later. Thanks for keeping us all on the straight and narrow.LBM = 07/09/13 Debt = £13339 (100% cleared)
New roof and car £8557/£19003 New kitchen £396/£5039 Credit card Paid Student loan Paid0
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