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Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2017
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I'd like to join please.
I have £3500 on a credit card....i think its quite a big ask but this will focus me !
Good Luck
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 -
£7 onto Credit card, so now sitting at £1250.
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This month's update from us:
£523.68 paying one cc OFF IN FULL! Hurrah!
£100 CC payment
another £100 CC payment
£69 extra on above to tie up loose ends
That brings us to a whopping (for us) 792.68 paid this month. We're proud! lol
New total muppets: #103 £2716.68/£45000 -
Evening all!
#006 checking in with £13089.71/£10000 please muppets
Let’s just pretend I have not been alternately drowning in debt or only eating toast to try and pay it off for the last 20 years 😭0 -
So just been paid and made my first significant payments to becoming debt free:
Starting to feel like I am making headway, although still very stressed with how I am going to get rid of this debt hanging over me!
Anyway checking in with various payments to outstanding loans, credit cards and council tax arears - £809.46 paid
#149 £1597.38/£19,3100 -
Payday!!!
I've just paid £254 off the credit card so that's £870 left to pay and should be gone in 2 paydays! I could send more across this month and less the next 2 but money this month will go to savings as well.
£1398/£2218 for #141:j0 -
Morning everyone,
#150 checking in with an updated total of £1211.10/£3729.05.VSPC 2019 #10 - £168.80/£100 VSPC 2020 #4 - £262.03/£200 VSPC 2021 #9 - £242.88/£200 VSPC 2022 #3 - £188.03/£200 VSPC 2023 #7 - £0/£2000 -
Morning all! And happy payday to those that get paid on the last working day of the month!
Well, as promised, I've chucked a whopping £906.41 at the Barclaycard today! :T
It rounds my total down to £2,000 left to pay off at 0% interest (well I hope so, the last statement had interest on it but I'm hoping that's from purchases - which have now been paid off - and not the balance transfer.)
Next step - deal with the odd £300-£500 amounts that I actually owe people, although we may well get them back in the form of baby gifts.
Muppets new totals:
#113 £3833.45/ £14,632.92 26%
Happy Friday everyone and have a cracking Bank Holiday Weekend! :beer:
L. xxDFW: DFWXMAS2018 #113 £2,968.08/ £12,859.08 23%
([STRIKE]Barclaycard £876.08[/STRIKE]/ [STRIKE]Mum £345[/STRIKE] / Sofa £1231 / [STRIKE]TV £572[/STRIKE] / House Account £2480 / OH £3700 / [STRIKE]Folks £1175[/STRIKE])0 -
Morning everyone

£5 over to overdraft- £1245 now.
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PAYDBX 2017 - #85 £12,675/£3100 75% Paid!!
Very very very pleased to announce that we have now paid off all of the loan that on January 1st was £10k!!!!! Managed to smash it in 4 months!!
Taking the scenic route for a few months as we need to pay for our holidays and for a few bits for our house. The rest WILL be gone before Christmas though!
Crunchy xx19/8/19 vs now Current Total debt £14,188 Savings £2757
Overdraft £1600 vs £1050
HSBC1 £1900 vs £3868
HSBC2 £4100 vs £3730
Virgin 1 £3050 vs £2800
House stuff and improvements £4460 Virgin 2 £27400
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