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  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    £52.64 sent towards the Halifax card brings my total to £3279.76 / £6000
    NEXT TARGET: Halifax credit card DEC 22 £0 / £4499.12
    POAMAYC 2011 £6378.35 POAMAYC 2012 £5000.78
    POAMAYC 2013 £3480.04 POAMAYC 2014 £4085.14
    POAMAYC 2015 £7565.24 POAMAYC 2016 £8000.90 POAMAYC 2017 £7278.80 POAMAYC 2018 £13208.18POAMAYC 2019 £13309.28 POAMAYC 2020 £15026.05
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Bit the bullet and sent £108.80 towards my couch which means it's all paid for and mine mine mine :rotfl: and the account is now closed :T

    Brings my total to £3388.56 / £6000
    NEXT TARGET: Halifax credit card DEC 22 £0 / £4499.12
    POAMAYC 2011 £6378.35 POAMAYC 2012 £5000.78
    POAMAYC 2013 £3480.04 POAMAYC 2014 £4085.14
    POAMAYC 2015 £7565.24 POAMAYC 2016 £8000.90 POAMAYC 2017 £7278.80 POAMAYC 2018 £13208.18POAMAYC 2019 £13309.28 POAMAYC 2020 £15026.05
  • donkids22
    donkids22 Posts: 289 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 100 Posts Name Dropper
    Regular monthly payments made plus an extra payment of £45. #063 £2723.95 that's new total.
    If you dream it can you do it????????
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    edited 7 August 2017 at 7:13PM
    Morning :hello:

    £6.83 sent to the Halifax card brings my total to £3395.39 / £6000
    NEXT TARGET: Halifax credit card DEC 22 £0 / £4499.12
    POAMAYC 2011 £6378.35 POAMAYC 2012 £5000.78
    POAMAYC 2013 £3480.04 POAMAYC 2014 £4085.14
    POAMAYC 2015 £7565.24 POAMAYC 2016 £8000.90 POAMAYC 2017 £7278.80 POAMAYC 2018 £13208.18POAMAYC 2019 £13309.28 POAMAYC 2020 £15026.05
  • Eltee12
    Eltee12 Posts: 768 Forumite
    Mortgage-free Glee! Debt-free and Proud!
    Hello


    #45 £943/£1968 paid = 52.08%


    Fingers crossed, might be able to up the payments soon


    El
    2018 AFD 23/240
    2018 CCC #11 £38.40/£250
    Mortgage-free since 2013

    Debt-free since Nov 2017
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Afternoon all!

    #006 checking in with £15397.38/14,539.71 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 😭
  • Afternoon everyone!

    Just made my regular £50 four weekly payment to my last outstanding debt so that takes me to #66 £2289/2889
    Only £600 to go! Thank you so much for this thread Muppets. I couldn't do this by myself.
  • muppets
    muppets Posts: 1,476 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Debt-free and Proud!
    Congarts Torties on smashing your 1st target. :j:j
    Good luck with your 2nd target. :beer::beer:

    :starmod::staradmin# 103
    Torties2:staradmin:starmod:
    Smashed their target
    Target cleared - £ 4,500.00
    PAYDBX 2020 - #01 Pd £15,029.29 / £13,140.66 - 114% 🎉

    MFiT-T5 #36
    3-6 mth EF #5
    €2,445 / 11,100
    Mortgage - PD 126,846.35/ 271,495.07 46.72%[ MF was Aug 2038 now Sept 2035 😲
  • muppets
    muppets Posts: 1,476 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Debt-free and Proud!
    Afternoon all, the front page has now been updated :j:j

    In July we had 1 membes join us.:beer:
    We had 1 Member who SMASHED their 1st target :T:T:T

    We paid off £26,222.77 :D

    We paid off a total of £293,940.75 which is 22.38% of our target ;)
    PAYDBX 2020 - #01 Pd £15,029.29 / £13,140.66 - 114% 🎉

    MFiT-T5 #36
    3-6 mth EF #5
    €2,445 / 11,100
    Mortgage - PD 126,846.35/ 271,495.07 46.72%[ MF was Aug 2038 now Sept 2035 😲
  • #128

    Paid £1292 so far in July.

    Creditors 10 / 21

    Total creditors paid off: 10

    MONTHLY TOTALS
    Jan paid off: £1550 - 9.69% - 1 creditor cleared.
    Feb paid off: £965 - 6.68% - 1 creditor cleared.
    March paid off: £1428 - 9.44% - 1 creditor cleared.
    April paid off: £1037 - 8.6% - 0 creditors cleared
    May paid off: £1127 - 10.23% - 2 creditors cleared
    June paid off: £927 - 10.33% - 1 creditors cleared
    July paid off: £1292 - 17.45% - 5 creditors cleared

    YEARLY TOTAL
    Total paid off this year: £8596 / £16,000 - 53.73%

    Creditors unable to comply with s77 request 1 / 2.
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