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  • Eltee12
    Eltee12 Posts: 768 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee! Debt-free and Proud!
    #45 reporting in £768/£1,968 = 39.02%
    2018 AFD 23/240
    2018 CCC #11 £38.40/£250
    Mortgage-free since 2013

    Debt-free since Nov 2017
  • elleJay42
    elleJay42 Posts: 165 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper
    Hi, my CC minimum payment has come out for the month and I've got another £70 to put towards it so I've managed to hit 50% yay!

    #118 £2431.65 / £4861 (50%)


    We're off on a wee holiday next week so saving a little bit of money for that, hopefully I'll have a little more to pay off this month but really pleased with how I'm getting on so far
    Total debt at LBM = £4861.03

    DFBXmas2018 #91 - £3342 / £3500 (95.4%)

    HTB ISA - £0 withdrawn for house purchase! :D
    Wedding Fund £2550 / £5000
  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    A weeny payment of £5.07 to the Mr L credit card means my debt is now at:

    #53 £1832.97/£3000
    Debt Free Stage 1 - Completed 27/08/2020
    Debt Free Stage 2 - Completed 50/181 Payments
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Morning all!

    #006 checking in with £14461.61/14,539.71 please muppets :D
    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 😭
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    I'm going to increase my aim again muppets - sorry to be a pain!! I've been making lots of mortgage ops that I hadn't accounted for in the original total :o

    I'll do some sums and come back with my new total soon :)
    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 😭
  • Another £150 paid
    073 1096.88/2500
    PAYDBX 2017 #073 2571/£2500
    EF #220 460/£1000
    MFW dec 12 [STRIKE]£97000[/STRIKE] jan 18 £86973
  • # 9 checking in with a £800 payment, new total paid £7100 out of £14000. A little past the halfway line.
  • Number 104 checking in

    New total 1300/4500

    Thanks
  • leanne0121
    leanne0121 Posts: 40 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary
    Hello

    No 78 with a £15 payment

    Owed £10,000 Paid £9,325 back Outstanding £675

    Thanks Muppets
    mortgage free wannabe outstanding Now £26,000 2019 £40,000 2018 £46,900 2012 £109,000 Survey 2017 £355 2018 £438 2019 £412.91 2020 £260.43 2021 £308.89. 2022 £383.70
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Afternoon all,

    #006 checking in with £14481.61/14,539.71

    Thanks muppets :D
    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 😭
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