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Anyone else have this "issue"?

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  • getmore4less
    getmore4less Posts: 46,882 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper I've helped Parliament
    Echo above, missed the bit about income dropping.

    Another way to look at this is min £per month to go to zero

    You are starting now at say

    18 months £13600 £756pm

    every £ over £756 drops the average for the rest of the months, if you have hit Jan with £1825 you now have

    17months £11,775 £693pm

    How much lower can you get it for 16 months to go?
  • I think everyone who is paying off debt over a number of years suffers this. The halfway point is a real test. You break your back to get to it but once you're there you feel like 'oh god i have to do this all over again!' I had a slip up at around the same stage. I started going out and having fun for a few months and set myself back the same amount of time. I did kick myself but in reality I think I needed it so that I didn't lose the plot completely as i live alone. :rotfl:

    Have a treat - not on credit - tell yourself that it's one treat and then back on the wagon.

    Imagine all the carpet you can buy once it's paid off! :T

    DC x
    LBM-November 2019 - Total Debt £28,000/PAID!
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