ATB'S Frugal Foray to Freedom

Jessy103

Come on ATB, you can do it!! Put SJ to shame!! Lol!

atypicalblonde

Morning all,

Thought it would be interesting and motivating (well at least to me!) to post our year to date figures so far.

Balance at 1.1.17 - £137,510.72

Balance as at 16.8.17 - £116,440

Total paid off so far this year - £21,070.72

Not too shabby at all and shows we still have around £15k to find by year end to reach 5 figure target (the other £1440 will be dealt with by regular monthly payments).

I'm pretty happy with that :T x

shangaijimmy

Great little update. I suppose when we're in the thick of it we cant fully see the overall progress, so a little count back is very motivating (scurries off to check our 6 months progress!!).

Moneyfordreams

amazing results... hard work does pay off :T:T:T

atypicalblonde

shangaijimmy wrote: »

Great little update. I suppose when we're in the thick of it we cant fully see the overall progress, so a little count back is very motivating (scurries off to check our 6 months progress!!).

Exactly my thinking SJ, and I needed a little motivation to make me stop beating myself up for how little we have achieved over the past month. Ebay does beckon today, aiming for 5 items on, watch this space though :rotfl:

Jessy103

That's fantastic! Well done!! x

CathT

Great mortgage reduction figures. I was saying to my two today that I think 4 weeks is ample for the summer holidays.

Will keep an eye on you and SJ whilst you both steam towards 5 figures!

themadvix

Amazing progress ATB! Don't feel bad about this month - we all need a bit of slack sometimes, just so we can come back at it with renewed focus... and it can't be easy entertaining two children all the time!

atypicalblonde

Thanks everyone for your encouraging comments. It is just me and DD today (DS at grandma's tonight) so we went to Pizza Express for a treat. It was really reasonable - 3 course kids meal for £6.95. She had tap water (always does, which is good as juice was £2!) and I had a cheeky Peroni.

It's raining here now so we are both cosied up on the sofa. I intend to photograph and list some ebay bits whilst she has some tablet time.

We made over £1k on ebay in January this year - if I can re-channel that focus again I think we could net around £300 from stuff just lying around. Wish me luck!

atypicalblonde

4 things on eBay, all on buy it now