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  • Megano
    Megano Posts: 324 Forumite
    GOOD NEWS!
    Paid £100 towards the BC balance!

    Bad news - I said I would help OH out with a couple of things (since I have the 0% offer) so done a balance transfer of £300
    Meaning can we change my total to £5293.19.

    Getting paid this week so expect a couple of payments from me :)

    Ive updated my signature for you :)
    Virgin Money £0/£1445
    TSB £0/£659.53
    BOM £0/£1480
    Tesco £8.36/£4647.26
    Total £8.36/£8231.79 0.101%
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Morning :hello:

    Direct debit for the couch £54.40 and the carpets £73.50 came out plus sent £9.66 towards the Argos card brings my total to £527.79 / £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
  • Florence_J
    Florence_J Posts: 1,942 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I PAID OFF MY C@PITAL CARD TODAY.

    And all my credit card statements have come through, meaning I can deduct my cleared payments, so I have cleared:

    £252.84/£1500

    Wooooooo!
    Debt Free Stage 1 - Completed 27/08/2020
    Debt Free Stage 2 - Completed 50/181 Payments
  • Megano
    Megano Posts: 324 Forumite
    Rounding down both my bank accounts today have left me paying £20.45 towards the MBNA card.
    Virgin Money £0/£1445
    TSB £0/£659.53
    BOM £0/£1480
    Tesco £8.36/£4647.26
    Total £8.36/£8231.79 0.101%
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Morning all,

    #006 checking in with £730.00/£10000 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 😭
  • Calling14
    Calling14 Posts: 3,498 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Morning everyone:) Paid 62 pounds off today :D

    #16 822/4300

    Thanks muppets :T

    LBM 13039 1.1.13 Now £0 Finally Debt FreeMortgage free Oct 2019:)EFund/savings £25000 10/11/22
  • Afternoon all,

    Another DD payment made of £102.35

    #47 £212.80/£11,334.69

    Such a long way to go... :'(
  • kindofagilr
    kindofagilr Posts: 6,825 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    Well done everyone :)
    Debt £30,823.48/£44,856.56 ~ 06/02/21 - 31.28% Paid Off
    Mortgage (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)
  • Hi
    original number of creditors 8 (may 2017)
    creditors (Jan 2017) = 3
    Debt Balance£2.009/£8.88 VSP #25 total to date £22.91p
  • dktreesea
    dktreesea Posts: 5,736 Forumite
    Hi Everyone,


    it's great to see the progress being made so far this year after just a couple of weeks.


    Another £1,100 for me please, Muppets, making my total:


    #79 £2,800/£8,470 33.06%
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