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  • Mindreset
    Mindreset Posts: 1 Newbie
    Hi - I’ve just joined and would love to take part in this..
    How do I go about joining?
  • Purple19
    Purple19 Posts: 12 Forumite
    First Anniversary
    Paid £207.90 to CC. Have also managed to move £5k to 0% interest card which leaves £3500 on 1st card which I'm still being charged interest on...going all out to clear this!

    #75 £1500 / £10000 (15%)
  • xebruary
    xebruary Posts: 45 Forumite
    Mindreset wrote: »
    Hi - I’ve just joined and would love to take part in this..
    How do I go about joining?

    Just state how much debt you'd like to pay off by Christmas. Muppets will give you a number which you should then include any time you make an update to your progress. More details are in the first post of the thread.
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Finally :hello:

    My direct debit for my loan account has came out so £49.88 is my final pay,sent to this loan

    Bring my total to £6479.39 / £10000
    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
  • muggle200
    muggle200 Posts: 4 Newbie
    edited 23 April 2019 at 8:43AM
    Hello everyone!

    Please can I join this challenge?

    I have £57,460.88 total debt at the moment from some large purchases and house renovations.

    Aiming to have this down to £30,000 by the end of this year so my goal is to clear £27,460.88 by Xmas 19 and the remainder in 2020.

    I have taken on a second job to pay for the house work that was needed, so not overly worried about debt level but keen to get rid of it asap.

    I generally make additional weekly payments on top of the monthly DD's. I also move things round to save on interest where I can so my balance reduction will come from a combination of these, living frugally and trying to stop DH from spending.

    I need to pay around £3,500 off a month to meet my target.
  • Steameh
    Steameh Posts: 369 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper
    edited 1 May 2019 at 1:37PM
    Having a bad month, only managed to pay the minimum payments due to relying on some credit card spending which will be paid off instead.

    So I've paid £171.59 this month.

    #134 - £3,300.29 / £15,985.00
    EMERGENCY FUND CHALLENGE - £2,292.05 / £6000

    DEBT FREE DATE - 16/02/2021
    Pay Debt by Xmas 2021 - No.134 - £2,871.64 / £2,871.64 - 100% Paid
    Pay Debt by Xmas 2020 - No.134 - Target: £7,985 / Achieved: £5,113.36
    Pay Debt by Xmas 2019 - No.134 - Target: £15,985.00 / Achieved: £8,000
  • charlotte1988
    charlotte1988 Posts: 92 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10 Posts
    edited 26 April 2019 at 9:24AM
    Made a few extra payments, so update now as :

    no. 179.
    349.11/1832.32

    Thanks muppets :)
    PAYDBX 2022 #8 £135.62 / £7500
  • Homegrown0
    Homegrown0 Posts: 1,280 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper
    Cashed out £3.14 from Qmee so

    #02 ££3,835.96 / £10,000 (38.36% paid)
    Sealed Pot Challenge 075
    Pay off by Xmas 2019 #02 - target £10,000
  • kindofagilr
    kindofagilr Posts: 6,825 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts
    muppets wrote: »
    Front page is updated :j

    Thank you Muppets xx
    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)
  • madvicker
    madvicker Posts: 157 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary Combo Breaker
    I'd like to join. The debt I want to clear started from January at £11,217.77. As of this moment it is now at £4333.56.
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