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  • motivated
    motivated Posts: 3,044 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic PPI Party Pooper
    Evening all payday for me and another round of payments :D

    Update is

    #31 £1415/£7,000

    Well done everybody :T
    Emptying my lake with a teaspoon
  • abba1772
    abba1772 Posts: 7,746 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Car Insurance Carver!
    Morning :hello:

    Sent £100.60 towards the barclaycard

    Brings my total to £1352.50 / £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
  • £4 bank round down sent to CC3. Now at #29 £1,290.00 / £15,000.
    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 whole 78p paid off the debt. Received from Shopmium and paypalled over.

    Pay debt by Xmas 2019 #81: 1019.14/4K
    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!
  • LLM2018
    LLM2018 Posts: 194 Forumite
    Sixth Anniversary 100 Posts Combo Breaker Uniform Washer
    #78

    Checking in with £165 paid so my total is £680/£3880 so far :)
    When life throws you a curveball, learn to catch it and throw it back! Feb Grocery Challenge/£100
  • Payment went out today, so I’m at:

    #04 - £647.81 / £4,161
  • I would like to join the challenge please.
    I’m just going to start from right now or am I best to count my payments already made from January and February?
    £0/£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%
  • Sorry reposted as messed up the colour of and size changing of numbers and couldn’t edit original one. ( I will get more used to the forum soon promise)

    I would like to join the challenge please.
    I’m just going to start from right now or am I best to count my payments already made from January and February?
    £0/£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%
  • #148 - £7 paid - now £979/£4,782

    Got my Elec bill this morning that was £3 more than anticipated, so paid £10 over to them to cover that increase plus a bit extra. That means this week I have paid £102 towards the debts. :j
    Changing my Family's Future!! - Starting again!!!!
    Current Progress -
    Debt - Start date 14/4/25 = £14,880.45
    Savings Goal = £1000 EF - £0/£1000 = 0%
  • Grrr who'd have a car? Although it could be worse as my contingency fund paid for most of the repairs but I have had to add £381 to my credit card

    #89 £3738.83/3855.16
    Debt free and saving like crazy
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