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Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2018

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  • Rosie75
    Rosie75 Posts: 609 Forumite
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    £750 paid to Halifax.

    #088 £5940 / £7440
    3-6 Month Emergency Fund #14: £9000 / £10,000
  • Dot.007
    Dot.007 Posts: 11 Forumite
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    £70 sent towards the halifax :j
  • [Deleted User]
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    Can I please try?
    I am at £4873 and I won't get it all gone by Christmas but I will work hard to get as much paid off as possible!
  • Mofette
    Mofette Posts: 30 Forumite
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    Well I never thought I'd have to return and do this :( I was SO SURE I'd got a handle on this.

    Our debt has increased, it was up at £7,926.37

    We also went on holiday and spent more than we'd saved for it, so as of Tuesday we have another card with £668.11

    We have a week in france coming up (no accom to pay for, just food/ent) so hopefully we can manage under £550 and not add to it

    To add to this, my best friend is getting married (she lives in Canada) so we've booked time there next May. There will be costs associated, but I've made them as low as possible and I'm paying my parents for our part monthly (they are invited and have paid it all up front)

    Long story short, I need to restart, but i'm going to include the stuff I've paid since May because otherwise it's too depressing.

    #131 Mofette - Paid: £1566.37 / £8594.48 18.2%

    By Christmas we WILL be at £4560.00 or I'm going to lose my !!!!.

    I feel like a failure. I have never been level my entire adult life. I can't even think about our student debts.
    2 Credit Cards: PAYDBX 2018 - #131 £1566.37 / £8594.48 18.2%
  • mossy
    mossy Posts: 1,263 Forumite
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    Mofette wrote: »
    I feel like a failure. I have never been level my entire adult life. I can't even think about our student debts.

    Don't be too hard on yourself. At least you are aware of it and want to get it cleared...it could be so much worse you could be sat there in denial racking up a huge amount of debt...instead you're jumping back on the debt busting wagon. You'll get there! ;) I always think these things come in ebbs and flows, sometimes you've cleared it all for a year or so and then you end up over spending on a holiday or not getting enough money saved to pay for something outright and you end up on here again trying to clear the debt.

    Each time is one less time until you completely crack it! :)
    Saving for Disney again, oops why book one Disney holiday when you can book two!
    :starmod: Emergency Fund Savings - #148 - £10/£1000 1% :starmod:
    :xmastree:#083 SPC6 £63 - SPC7 £90 - SPC8 £63 - SPC9 £54 - SPC10 £26 - SPC12 £70 :xmastree:
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
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    Morning :hello:

    Sent £4.03 towards the Halifax

    Hoping for a bigger payment later on during the day

    Brings my total to £5038.70 / £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
  • AdventureWanted
    AdventureWanted Posts: 1,474 Forumite
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    £30 sent to CC3 today.

    #29 Pd £9,060.60 / £12,500
    LBM Aug 2017.
    Debt at LBM - £30,055
    Debt at highest - £43,148.59
    Current debt - £18,880.00
    EF - £1,000.00

    Challenges
    PAYDBX 2021 - #29 Pd £2,355 / £8,000 PAYDBX 2020 - Pd £6,459.00 | PAYDBX 2019 - Pd £16,945.60 | PAYDBX 2018 - Pd £15,010.60.
  • a_silver_lining
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    Payday!

    £100 sent directly to the family, so just hit 3.5k directly repaid.
    £53.04 paid from webuybooks this morning and so straight off debt.

    #38 now at 6214.51/10k, 62.1% paid :)
    19/12/14: Spent 10 years of savings!!
    :heart2: ..... to buy my first home. :heart2:
    11K OP 31.03.19

    Current goal: €151,000 deposit Ireland and counting, to buy Spring 2022 we hope!
  • Mummy_bear
    Mummy_bear Posts: 604 Forumite
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    #159 Checking in for my end of month update.


    £ 3,890.66 / £ 7,500,00 51.9%

    MB
    My LBM May 2017, DH LBM July 2017- Total Debt (not Including Mortgage) £46444.23 :eek:
    £40773.61 /£46444.23 87.8% paid
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
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    Another £50 sent towards the Halifax

    Brings my total to £5088.70 / £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
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