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Nearly DF - How do I go about this?

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  • katsu
    katsu Posts: 5,050 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Mortgage-free Glee!
    I would keep the credit card at home in a safe place so that you had one for say purchases of over £100 where the benefits of a credit card were useful.
    Debt at highest: £8k. Debt Free 31/12/2009. Original MFD May 2036, MF Dec 2018.
  • Martah
    Martah Posts: 7 Forumite
    Third Anniversary
    Pay off the overdraft and ask to have them to be reduced so you want use them again.

    Sort out your budgeting and aim to track 100% of your spending. I have just done it in the last month and the result was shocking, denial definitely has its benefits.

    Can you trust yourself with a credit card? My one is not even in my purse anymore seems to be working ok for now.
  • phillw
    phillw Posts: 5,692 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Martah wrote: »
    Pay off the overdraft and ask to have them to be reduced so you want use them again.

    Unless the account prevents you going into an unauthorized overdraft then I wouldn't reduce it, just do whatever you can to not use it.
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