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Pay ALL your debt off by Xmas 2019

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  • Wee £3 payment made to my CC this morning :)

    #04 - £986.28 / £4,161
  • #92 here

    For March I paid off £1068.27

    Brings my overall total paid off: £3,574.16/ £18,500

    I am really enjoying paying off my debt!
    DDx
    Started again 25th December 2017
    Current tracking - £7,955.84/ £18,282.25 to pay off. (31.12.19)
  • #157 is £3197.5/£9000
    The 365 day penny challenge £0.0/£667.95

    Debt Free Diary - Rolling the Debt Away

    PAYDBX 2019 - Pd £3,917.5 / £9,000 - 0.0%
  • #157 is £3917.5/£9000

    Sorry typed number wrong on last post.
    This one is correct.
    Managed to pay of Phone device debt.
    Old council tax debt.
    Car loan was settled.
    Making March a big kick in the debt butt
    The 365 day penny challenge £0.0/£667.95

    Debt Free Diary - Rolling the Debt Away

    PAYDBX 2019 - Pd £3,917.5 / £9,000 - 0.0%
  • a_silver_lining
    a_silver_lining Posts: 535 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Combo Breaker Debt-free and Proud!
    edited 30 March 2019 at 5:33PM
    Worked really hard at getting a refund. estimated readings had resulted in them wanting to double my direct debit and saying I owed 130. Turned out they owed me 53.84. I havn't received it yet, hut sent to debt anyway as I needed a win after two hours on the phone.

    paid 9563.02/ 10K
    Pay debt by Xmas 2019 #81: 3563.02/4K


    Accidentally sent the payment twice... silly bank... so at :

    9616.86/ 10K
    Pay debt by Xmas 2019 #81: 3616.86/4K


    Waiting for three more payments to me... so 15th is when I think I will be debt free.
    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!
  • ashfan83
    ashfan83 Posts: 73 Forumite
    Well done everyone, great to see how everyone is doing! So with April almost upon us we're a third of the way through the year (!). Hopefully most of us are third of the way with our debt payments too!
  • Haven't posted for a while but paid monthly amount plus an extra ,£100 so far this month so currently at #064 £1006.50 / £3390
    #030 Sealed Pot 2019 Challenge - Declare 31st Oct
    #064 Pay debts by Xmas 2019 Challenge - £3390/ £3390 :money:
    #015 £2 savers club 2019 - target £200
  • This month's payments are all done:
    #162 now at £4073.58/£12000
    Debt-free August 21, Mortgage-neutral April 24
  • Hi can I join in the debt free challenge please? My total debts to date is: £5291.00, so this would be my challenge.
    Thanks very much
  • Sooooo I'm DEBT FREE!

    10k paid!

    I couldn't wait any longer as it's been eating away at me the past few weeks, so I double checked my maths of incoming and outgoing and decided to just do it!
    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!
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