Pay off £20,000 (ish) by Xmas 2008

andan

Buffy, £1800 is a great total and your not far behind me, so don't think your doing too bad. Well i've had an early cheque through from some mystery shopping work i've done. That should be an extra £68 towards my total, not counting it though until the cheque has cleared and its been stuck in my savings account rather than my current account, as thats where it gets swallowed up.

Waiting on Barclays to finally get round to setting up my new isa, means that my money will be earning a bit more. I am tempted though to pay off my 0% credit cards instead as i got a late payment fee last month due to easter. It meant the interest i had earnt on my savings account went to paying off my late fee, sometimes feel it would be easier just to get rid of them.

taxi73

Hi everyone ..you are all doing really well so far .So glad everyone is doing well ...I don't seem to be making big inroads but I know this is down to me doing the house up at the same time...but will be very shortly

andan

Madmich, well done on passing your motorcycle theory, will all be worth it in the end.

lamarsi

hello all, well despite it being crud on the taxis at mo i've managed to pay a further £100 of my c/c, my aim is to get it below £2000 b4 end of april. I got the blind man round yesterday (yip i've heard all the jokes) to give me a quote ....£370 for a few little blinds!! going to windowlean the windows instead! think they'll have to be put on hold for a while i've lived without them for this long anyhows thought i'd just check in, total paid of debt today is £3340 yeah!!!!

taxi73

Well done you...nearly £3.5k is nothing to be sniffed at.

lamarsi

thanks taxi! i pretty chuffed because since christmas i've also bought a car and had a new bathroom fitted but until i pay my credit card off i'm going to try to not spend anything more (well maybe some food perhaps)

mizmir

OH just got £150 for some overtime so have added that to my total and paid more off my mint card!

kizzykizzywizzy

Hi there everyone
Well done madmich:T :T
Lamarsi, did you get hillarys around for the quote for blinds, I think you can get £20 from quidco if they come & measure up & quote - no ties.
You are all doing so well, was just spying on you all:cool:

andan

Hey Kizzy, have you started on the saving yet then, now that your debt free?

Not much to report from me, did two mystery shops today, one for putting money in my own bank account and the other for buying something in a shop which i get to keep and get reimbursed for it, sometimes i really love mystery shopping! Have done quite a bit of mystery shopping recently and don't know where i would be without it at the mo. I've had a few expensive months so unfortunately there never seems to be enough left over to do the matched betting with. However, hopefully when May comes my finances will sort themselves out a bit better.

hypno06

Everyone is doing so well!!

I am at a standstill until I start my new job next month - once I start getting paid from that, I will be hitting my debt into oblivion (well, making overpayments anyway!!)

Keep up the good work :T