The long haul supporters thread...

Keeping_Positive

Im on a mission at the mo to take back some control. Been tough with myself at lunchtimes and at dinner. Restarted some survey sites, clicks etc so hopefully it will all add up.

Wishing you well for your wedding TEK and hope HTGDF had a great time and is sunning herself somewhere nice.

Happytogetdebtfree

Hello, nope I had a few days in the lakes and then goingvto Australia in January yay I'm pretty excited my wedding day was great and we have got enough cash to pay for Australia and have 600 in savings for spend so we did well I'm very pleased. Also myum is letting us use her capital one 12% to pay some of the other high intrest credit cards off. The only bad thing about wedding is changing names it's such a pest! Haha tek all the best on your day it's over before you have chance to remember x x I'm looking forward to clearing some debts haha x

TEK_2

Thanks folks good luck KP with trying to take control again. Glad it all went well HTGDF & hope you enjoy Oz in January. Will try & get on tomorrow but if not be back in a couple of weeks!! All the best

geranium72

aw great to see you had a great day HTGDF - hope yours is great too TEK - nIce to see your plan - I have been doing a lot of that at the moment as well - and it does make you feel better to see it

Hard not to wish the time away though til we get there!

Happytogetdebtfree

Er having s party when we all get there I am excited x

ramblingtree

HTGDF - Congratulations! Glad you had a great day.
TEK - Good luck! Hope everything goes well and enjoy the honeymoon.

Things chugging along here, I'm two weeks into having a 2nd job, paid in cash each week so had a couple of trips to the bank to put money *in* - such a rarity!! But feels good, and have already paid above minimum amount on all cards this month. So fingers crossed the extra hours don't kill me and I can continue to pay off extra each month.

KP - good luck with the taking back control, being organised can be tough sometimes, the food thing makes a huge difference I think.

Keep up the good work.
xx

Happytogetdebtfree

Hey all im mucho annoyed about things i dont know why grrrrrrr .............. ahhh im much better because now we are 100 in credit with gas so im having that back cheeky bleeders !!

In_Search_Of_Me

well I'm back from hol which was fairly frugal...back to w*** tomorrow. Good to have reflection time and enjoy time with mum but now back for debtbusting and need to do so with avengence as cc eating up interest and feel I am standing still...cunning plan is simple. spend less. pay more. tada!! off to bed in a mo..hugs all that need them!

Happytogetdebtfree

Hello ISOM glad to have u back hope the break was good. Ah pesky credit cards is there anyone you can trust to look after your credit card so you can just pay it back. I'm on the post wedding health regime lol fun times I've been out walking twice today with daisey dog it helps with reflection. I'm back to work Wednesday on 3 nights yay x good luck tomorrow x x

poorbabe

Hi everyone, I've not been here for a long while as things were going well, albeit very slowly. I've now slipped a bit on the 'not using allowed overdraft' and didn't make as much headway on the 0% cards as I'd hoped, so I will have to calculate what the monthly payments will be once the 0% runs out

On the other hand I've not touched my £2 and 50p jar - touch and go for a while though and am looking forward to breaking the sealed bottle at the end of December.

Since I started on this 'clear debts before my 50th' road in January, I've switched leccy/gas companies, now cycle to/from work every day, revised my food shopping downwards and reduced weekly takeaways to fortnightly or even (whisper) monthly :eek: I do have times when I slip, but I'm ok with that now. I think it helps that I live on my own so the only person who suffers (or not) is me and I've warned my family and friends that visiting in the winter means travelling with winter woolies and/or snuggling under one of my blankets as I'm on a mission to reduce my heating bill. Fortunately having had the boiler serviced and radiators bled means that is achieveable, as it turns out not a few of them were filled with air rather than water (hadn't been bled in 2 years).

Had to alter my DFD as I finally calculated my 50th is in 2013 and not 2012 - clearly the 21st century and I do not get on :rolleyes:

Hugs to all and keep on moving onwards and downwards (DFD). We are further along than we think :T