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August Clear a Debt Challenge!!

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  • JCD_Capulet
    JCD_Capulet Posts: 1,441 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    Up to £25.61 made so far for my Electricity bill. Looking at another £10 or so in the next few days plus about £40 comming from FEE-bay if the boots I'm selling, sell how they should. It's getting all exciting!!
    Debt free since 2014 - now saving for a mortgage deposit :heart2:
    This time I'm on top of it! We live and learn :coffee:
  • Hi everyone,

    My Ebay listings ended last night and I have £95 on its way from Paypal. A few payments are outstanding so I hope to have a further £50 to transfer by the end of the week...

    Good luck everyone!
    Debt at LBM: £18,001
    Nationwide cc £8,562 now £4,965 M&S cc £1,884 now £2,695 HoF £694 now £0
    NW loan £3,861 now £0 OD £3,000 now £0
    Debt at 19 February 2010 £7,660
  • Thats brilliant jelly baby. I made loads last week and rubbish this week. Oh well. Still got loads on and slowly mounting up. So fingers crossed.x
    5 Year plan. April 2020 to June 2025- CC and mortgage free by time I'm 60
    Currently CC £23,674.36 /£14,895.41/£14315.42
    Mortgage £28,214.65/ £26,254.71/ £25,746.43
    By end 2020 I want CC at £ 19,000.00.
    By end 2021 I want CC at £10,000.00
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    Well, there were no prizes for me today :mad: - but I have got some more stuff to list.

    I picked up a mixture of things from Freecycle. They were advertised as 'carboot items' so I don't feel guilty about selling them. There were 8 items of ladies clothes in there that are in mint condition and are good makes too (George, Warehouse, French Connection etc!).

    I'm going to list all them over the course of the next few days. Hopefully they could fetch up to £5 each which would be excellent. There were also some lovely (and some new) photo frames in there and other bits and pieces that I could list.

    If anyone is stuck for things to sell then try looking out for 'carboot lots' on your local freecycle site. My local one is always advertising stuff like this, you just need to be quick to grab them!!

    Emily x
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    Morning everyone

    I am off work today so will be getting things ready to list on Ebay tonight, looking out for more freecycle stuff and praying for some prizes!!

    I have managed to pay another £20 off the card this morning and I finally got paid for all my Ebay items yesterday so I withdrew £60 from Paypal last night.

    My Ebay items at the moment are at just over £30.

    Have a good day :D

    Emily x
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    I have finally received some prizes :dance: - I will list a load of items on Ebay tonight and again tomorrow.

    Emily x
  • peteuk
    peteuk Posts: 2,062 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Ive Cleared my Capital One credit card - although I cheated a little as it was through getting my chargers back.

    We are going on holiday, and Im hoping to have about £30 left of the spending money we have to clear a small debt. This will release another £8.40 into my dmp. That will mean August will have seen £16 released to pay other debts.

    Pete
    Proud to have dealt with our debts
    Starting debt 2005 £65.7K.
    Current debt ZERO.
    DEBT FREE
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    peteuk wrote: »
    Ive Cleared my Capital One credit card - although I cheated a little as it was through getting my chargers back.

    We are going on holiday, and Im hoping to have about £30 left of the spending money we have to clear a small debt. This will release another £8.40 into my dmp. That will mean August will have seen £16 released to pay other debts.

    Pete

    Well done on clearing your card, it doesn't matter how you do it, as long as you do ;) .

    My Capital One card is my next target debt to clear :rolleyes: .

    Emily x
  • Hi everyone. I have sold some stuff today. Had £27 in my paypal account so have used this to pay my fees. Still have £2 to pay to clear fees account for everything which means after postage everything else will be profit. I have a postal order for £3.20 already and another £9 to come. E-bay is sitting at £24 just now. I have £2 from lightspeed. £8 from ciao and about £15 in change from change challenge which I am going to use. Not exactly sure how much is still to be paid as the original figure was a guesstimate so I reckon I have another £40 approximately to find by the end of the month. That should be do-able :j
    5 Year plan. April 2020 to June 2025- CC and mortgage free by time I'm 60
    Currently CC £23,674.36 /£14,895.41/£14315.42
    Mortgage £28,214.65/ £26,254.71/ £25,746.43
    By end 2020 I want CC at £ 19,000.00.
    By end 2021 I want CC at £10,000.00
  • ehallett
    ehallett Posts: 1,960 Forumite
    Just listed a load of items on Ebay so fingers crossed they all sell. It's so boring when your listing stuff!!

    I will list some more stuff on Sunday I think, hopefully some more prizes might turn up before then.

    I hope everyone has had a good day.

    Emily x
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