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#143 £605.00/£7,126.98
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Feelingpeachy..do you mean premium bonds? They have dropped badly the odds and are due to again, we have £700 and used to get about £150 a year , then nothing for 5 years now, We plan on getting the money back off them. Mse has a section about it somewhere xx
Update please muppets another £50 , if I keep on at this rate I should be paid off by christmas or very near..It's addictive once you start . Goal for April is to pay off tesco x Pay off all your debt Xmas 2017 Member 42 968/ 4225 (22.9%)Compers challenge 27/70
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mummy2threeboys wrote: »Feelingpeachy..do you mean premium bonds? They have dropped badly the odds and are due to again, we have £700 and used to get about £150 a year , then nothing for 5 years now, We plan on getting the money back off them. Mse has a section about it somewhere xx
Update please muppets another £50 , if I keep on at this rate I should be paid off by christmas or very near..It's addictive once you start . Goal for April is to pay off tesco x Pay off all your debt Xmas 2017 Member 42 968/ 4225 (22.9%)
Hi Mummy2! Yes Premium Bonds. I didn't realise they had dropped? My parents have had some in there a while and never won, and one of the girls at work has won £25 from £1500, don't think she has had them in there too long. Perhaps I need to have a think about this then. Thank you for your reply!Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2017: Number 115 - Total now £2448.88/£8302.47 29.49%0 -
Hi Muppets
#46 reporting with a payment of £15
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Good morning, £500 off for #051 Bumblebear
Balance will be £499 now, next month's payday I can clear it. I have a feeling I'm going to wish the next 4 weeks away...Debt free as of 28/03/2017 (just don't ask about the mortgage :rotfl:)
Lover of sewing and biscuits, hater of traffic jams and credit cards
3-6 Month Emergency Fund Challenge #78 £0/£5,6700 -
Good morning all

Checking in with a payment of £500 today!
Thanks muppets!!
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Payday for me today and the last one of this financial year. I have cleared £1985 off the student loan for this year which represents a good chunk. Will have this wrapped up in a few months now as earnings have gone up a fair bit thanks to promotion back end of last year. Will pretty soon be onto my last debt - the Virgin Credit card.
Going to take stock of things for a few days and see where I go with this months salary. As per last month, keen to put some of it away in my ISA, so won't be throwing it all at the debt.
TOTAL FOR MUPPETS - £1985 OFF THIS MONTH FOR NUMBER 129
EDIT: Just put another £500 into the ISA and brought another fund. Will let the credit card sit for a couple of weeks and see where I am early to mid April. If I've had the uneventful month that I should have had (car insurance paid last month) then I'll be able to take off a fair slice of the credit card. This is such a positive thread - keep going everyone!0 -
Well done everyone, it's great to see all our debts going down!
#11 checking in with: £3711.90 / £16,987.39[FONT="][FONT="] Fighting the biggest battle of my life.
Started 30th January 2018.
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Well done everyone

#87 Paid £864.59 this month which brings my totals to:
£3248.38/£10,000
Thanks
Debt £30,823.48/£44,856.56 ~ 06/02/21 - 31.28% Paid OffMortgage (01/04/09 - 01/07/39)
£79,515.99/£104,409.00 (as of 05/02/21) ~ 23.84% Paid Off
Lloyds (M) - £1196.93/£1296.93 ~ Next - £2653.79/£2700.46 ~ Mobile - £296.70/£323.78
HSBC (H) -£5079.08/£5281.12 ~ HSBC (M) - £4512.19/£4714.23
Barclays (H) - £4427.32/£4629.36 ~ Barclays (M) - £4013.78/£4215.82
Halifax (H) - £4930.04/£5132.12 ~ Halifax (M) - £3708.65/£3911.20
Asda Savings - £0
POAMAYC 2021 #87 £1290.07 ~ 2020/£3669.48 ~ 2019/£10,615.18 ~ 2018/£13,912.57 ~ 2017/£10,380.18 ~ 2016/£7454.80
~ Emergency Savings: £0
My Debt Free Diary (Link)0 -
Hello all,
Two more payments, one on 21st for £551 and another for £100 on 25th.
If my maths are correct that brings us to:
#103 1924.00/4,500.00
This really keeps the motivation up, we're hoping to go past our target but are being sensible. One more month and we will be rid of one of our 3 credit cards!0
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