£170000 in 10 years

Busy_Mee1

Now you have made me feel jealous - that sounds lovely I can totally understand why you want to work from home

themadvix

Hi Try Harder,

It sounds like you're doing really well! I'm not sure what Busy Mee is jealous of - the vintage wedding dresses or the walking, but definitely count me in for both! One of our main motivators for overpaying is to be able to move to the countryside/sea as we live on the edge of a new town at the moment and it's incredibly uninspiring for walking! So it seems like you've just done it the other way around - moved and then paying off!

I second the idea of an Ebay business, you sound like you've got it sussed. Or have you thought about mystery shopping? It's not always great pay (depending on the company), but sometimes it can be a bit extra and you might get a free meal out of it. Have you looked on the Boost Your Income boards? Some great ideas on there! I know what you mean about surveys, but once you've got a few companies on the go with different payout levels you get the motivation from the payouts to keep you going (or I do, anyway!).

Have a good day - weekend tomorrow!

shangaijimmy

Apologies for the delay, somehow i missed your PM. I've replied and a spreadsheet is winging its way to you! Good luck.

try_harder

Good morning everyone,thank you very much shangaijimmy for the spreadsheet ,when i have a quiet minute with out the noise of grandchildren but with the help of one of my children i will download it and thank you so much. Ah busymee1 and the madvix i do not put half the effort in to the selling side as i should as i said before i am truly very lazy ,i have great ideas in my mind but then some thing else comes into my mind and off i go .Yes so lucky to have nice walks and coastline around us and yes thats a great way to look at it the madvix i had never thought of it like that before pay for it whilst enjoying .I am reading through the boost your income boards and i have to say there are some great ideas ,there are so many great threads on here i dont know where to look first,its brilliant .We have had a lovely start to the week a summer solstice garden party last night and dinner out tonight for fathers day we have been very spoilt. .

themadvix

Sounds like a lovely weekend!

try_harder

Thank you the madvix it was .Well its the last day of my week today (my weeks run from wednesday to tuesday)and i have paid £242.30 this week off of my mortgage ,some came from husbands overtime some from ebay sales and some from my very limited savings pot that is emptying rapidly .I have gone from 170000 to under 168000 in the few weeks since i started this diary ,which is truly remarkable and i could not have done it with out the support of people on here ,if only i had found this site years ago i would not have had these debts and am very grateful to everyone .Sub account 1 only has around 700 pounds owing on it now so 3 more weeks and it will be paid ,i am amazed and so very pleased so thank you everyone ,i just love it here and have learnt so much.

Busy_Mee1

Well done Try Harder - great news :T:T

try_harder

Thank you busymee1 that is really sweet of you.

LightBulbMoment

Hi Try Harder,

I have just sat and read your diary. Keep going Mrs, £2000 in the time you have been writing this diary is amazing.

I think we are going to have to come up with some other ideas for us both to do as well as ebay, I just have not come up with any ideas yet. As soon as I have finished decluttering my house I will put my thinking cap on.

I was also thinking of starting an ebay business part time, so we will have to bounce the ideas of each other.

Take care and keep up the good work.

LBM

katep23

try_harder wrote: »

if only i had found this site years ago i would not have had these debts and am very grateful to everyone .

But you have found it now and have recognised what you need to do. It would have been worse to carry on for another 5 years before you realised!