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Debt free by 31/12/2016 - £36,500 to nothing!

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  • Good luck with it all. I hope you do it. :D
  • Wow best of luck!


    I will be stalking you all the way, I also got into debt just racking up the CC's & have absolutely nowt to show for it.


    How exciting about putting a ring on it also - eeeeeeeeeek!!


    Dxxx
  • Right, so off to a fairly standard start. An old Hyundai Coupe I had kicking around has gone on eBay (I have a habit of buying cheap cars and then getting bored of them). I'm fairly sure this will make £100, maybe even more giving me a little bit of a buffer! Item number is 231718458533 incase you're curious! Will post the next idea later today or tomorrow!
    Will probably have to create a nice footer to track my progress!
    Dischared June 2018. Time to rebuid!
  • January2015
    January2015 Posts: 2,369 Forumite
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    Right, so off to a fairly standard start. An old Hyundai Coupe I had kicking around has gone on eBay (I have a habit of buying cheap cars and then getting bored of them). I'm fairly sure this will make £100, maybe even more giving me a little bit of a buffer! Item number is 231718458533 incase you're curious! Will post the next idea later today or tomorrow!
    Will probably have to create a nice footer to track my progress!

    Good luck with the selling. I had a peek at your listing for the Hyundai. I tried in Firefox, IE, and Chrome. I can only see a decent size photo for the last image. The first image is medium size (not great but ok) - the rest are tiny. It may just be me, but it may be worth checking. If people can't see decent pics of the car they may not bid.

    Nice looking car - hope you get what you want for it :)
    DFW Nerd No. 1484 LBM 07/01/15 Debt was £95k :eek: Now debt free and happy :j
  • anna_1977
    anna_1977 Posts: 862 Forumite
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    Good luck and once you've paid off yours a bit of help with mine wouldn't go amiss :):)
  • Kitten868
    Kitten868 Posts: 1,785 Forumite
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    Can I join you? How are you going to do it? I'm running out of ideas now I've hit the £2000 mark.
    Listed most of my possessions on eBay. Some of them going for 99p :( sold all my books/CDs/dvds - webuybooks & ziffit & cex
    Changed my current account twice
    Reduced all my dds and changed phone/internetthrough quidco
    I'm on maternity leave and running out of ideas.
    I don't know the rules I'm new xxx
    Loan 1 £5200/£8000
    Loan 2 £300/£5800
    Total £5500/£13800
  • rockm87
    rockm87 Posts: 847 Forumite
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    Hi Kitten, start your own thread and post a statement of affairs.

    http://www.stoozing.com/calculator/soa.php

    follow this link and complete as accurately as you can.
    Total Debt in Feb 2015 - £6,052 | DEBT FREE 26/05/2017
    Swagbucks £200 Valued Opinions £100
    Dave Ramsey Baby Step 2 | Mr Money Mustache Addict
  • Hi and best of luck

    will be following to see how you are getting on and spurring you on :)

    subscribed
    SP 9#531=£620/SP 10 # 531=?PDBX 2016 #2 = £16,766.67/£12,000
    PDBX 2017 #2 = £1,200/£12,000


    ''If you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain''
  • Kitten868
    Kitten868 Posts: 1,785 Forumite
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    Thanks for the reply rockm. Didn't mean to hijack - sorry! Just looking for more tips. Don't really know how to do a soa as do bills joint but money separately. X
    Loan 1 £5200/£8000
    Loan 2 £300/£5800
    Total £5500/£13800
  • Right, so things to complete by the end of this week are all going to be simple. Need to list a load of old stuff on ebay.

    This week's tasks are as follows:-

    List the following on eBay
    1 Hyundai (done)
    2 MGF
    3 MGF hard top
    4 Drum kit
    5 Decks
    6 Old electrics (computers, phones & old plasma tv)
    7 Mountain bike (brand new and won by my gf in a competition this week!)

    Week 2 is starting to look like this...

    8 Chase up old pet insurance claim
    9 Change bank account to TSB for £125 cashback (this might have to wait until later in the year when my finances are in better shape)
    10 PPI claims (hoping I'll find £100 kicking about here)
    11 Start listing old magazines on ebay (I think I'll need to list 200 to make £100 over the course of the year)
    12 Start listing my cousins old dresses and shoes on eBay (she passed a few years back and has some amazing 80s outfits!)
    13 Erm...
    14 I'll have some more ideas soon!
    Dischared June 2018. Time to rebuid!
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