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  • muppets
    muppets Posts: 1,476 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 10 February 2018 at 7:59PM
    JANUARY UPDATE

    We paid off £28,280.13 :T
    which is 10.42% of our target ;)
    We had 115 Members sign up :T:T:T
    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!
    sunshine81 wrote: »
    I've been transferring money monthly into a separate account for bills. Finally checked the account and found I've been putting in too much, so sent a nice £500 this morning to Barclaycard :money:


    #145 £5562.68 / £19261 (28.88%)
    Wow nice to find such a big amount there.
    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 😲
  • Megano
    Megano Posts: 324 Forumite
    036) payment of £56.20
    Virgin Money £0/£1445
    TSB £0/£659.53
    BOM £0/£1480
    Tesco £8.36/£4647.26
    Total £8.36/£8231.79 0.101%
  • Ammeretto
    Ammeretto Posts: 181 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture
    Hello muppets

    Just checking in with an payment of £825 to my mbna card - this clears the balance on this card now - I rang up this afternoon and closed it :j

    I now stand at

    #142 - £1,475.00 / £11,000.00 = 13.4%
  • net78
    net78 Posts: 58 Forumite
    Hi no 5 here... paid £36.17 today so total stands as-
    136.17/209.74
    One debt v 100 days take 4(1.9.10-10.12.10) Littlewoods £126.05 Paid off 23/11/10 7 days early , then the washing machine gave up boooo
    one debt v 100days take6 (15/08/11-23/11/11)-capital one credit card £1902.91 paid off 4/11/11 19 days early:j
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Morning :hello:

    £100 to barclaycard and £62.40 towards the Halifax

    Brings my total to £1285.06 / £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
  • Calling14
    Calling14 Posts: 3,498 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    £8 for me today.

    #16 £1062/£5552

    Thanks Muppets

    LBM 13039 1.1.13 Now £0 Finally Debt FreeMortgage free Oct 2019:)EFund/savings £25000 10/11/22
  • kirtsypoos
    kirtsypoos Posts: 3,826 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Afternoon All!

    #006 checking in with £1438.98/£4000 after a CC DD came out this morning 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 😭
  • sunshine81
    sunshine81 Posts: 1,485 Forumite
    Seventh Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    #145 £5587.68 / £19261 (29.01%)
  • LoLo
    LoLo Posts: 545 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts
    #21 paid another £435 off my debt.

    Total so far is £1224.82/£10000
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