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I love my spreadsheet honestly I stare at it all day thinking look at my forecast and everything... I am quite sad I realise lol and I want to beat my forecast

Dont get paid for 21 days argh just want to pay off more, plus £40 away from my chunk pay off to loan too from savings :P xDebt (1/9/14) £6,702.11 Debt free (30/11/2016) mortgage port- £70,077.82 and mortgage £126,517.39 o/s currently
Debt - £17,190.83 (29/7/22) now (19/8/22) £16,688.800 -
I'm sorry to have caused confusion with my last post.. I didn't know how I should be reporting my repayments

But I received a cheque from the council to reimburse me for a new tyre I had to get as a result of one of their potholes.
So that's another £114.30 to go towards the car loan.
To save confusion and avoid creating extra work for the admin, I will just update my total at the end of the month if that's OK?DFBX2016 #024
Target = £10804
Paid = £24340 -
Just made my first tiny payment - £20 off the Natwest credit card
So that brings me to £4432.28 and I'm number 118
Debt Free by Christmas '15 £0/£4452.280 -
sarahc4536 wrote: »Is there room for another one?
Although my debt stretches much further than this, but I'd love to clear £2500 by Christmas!!
Of course! Welcome, you're number 121.Hi, can I join again, please? Miscalculated the debt last time around, so not making the same mistake this time. We have (yikes!)
£30,113
Hello
#122 for you, good luck!
to pay off.Been a busy couple of days since starting this challenge. I have pretty much emptied my rainy day fund to make an impact on my debt. Even though it's a scary thought seeing the savings total go down to zero it's a great psychological boost to see the debt amount go in the right direction. So with that in mind -
#119 - Paid £19,025/£42,908 (44% paid):j
BOOM! Wow, well done. Scary decision to take, but I think you'll find it worth it. :T0 -
I'm sorry to have caused confusion with my last post.. I didn't know how I should be reporting my repayments

But I received a cheque from the council to reimburse me for a new tyre I had to get as a result of one of their potholes.
So that's another £114.30 to go towards the car loan.
To save confusion and avoid creating extra work for the admin, I will just update my total at the end of the month if that's OK?
Hi Matt! Don't worry, I'm easily confused :rotfl: Feel free to update as often as you like, I'm on here every other day at the moment to do a sweep. As long as I know your total amount paid to date, I can update the spreadsheet. Well done on making another payment :T0 -
#037 - now up to £704.55
Yay, getting there, impatient for the next pay day already!Baby due 21/06/2017
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Is it too late to join in? I want to pay off all of my debt this year - so £14457 in total on 2 CC's a loan and an OD! I know I can do it!!!0
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You're all doing so well
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I feel really behind but I'm due to make a payment next week so that should boost me!I AM DEBT FREE!0 -
108 checking in.
Payment today - now paid £1537.13/£9139.48.0 -
I'm doing awful. I've also had two takeaways this week and they were both horrible! at least it's put me off having any more haha
I wish payday would hurry up. ..0
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