Pay off £20,000 (ish) by Xmas 2008

Pollydaydream

Good morning everyone and welcome to new joiners.

We've had snow overnight and now the sun is shining - it looks beautiful outside (although glad I don't have to go out).

Everyone's doing so well. Congratulations to all who have cleared a debt - it feels great, doesn't it.

Taxi - well done on the smoking. I'm hoping to join you soon. It just seems so ridiculous to be working so hard at making money and then watching it, literally, going up in smoke. Talk about faffing.

Have a good day everyone.

Polly

jess444_2

Hi all,

A good week. OH has arranged extra work though his employer and have been helping him with this. Will be paid in 2 weeks and we think we will then have enough to pay off the MBNA. :j
Had a win on the National with Betfair (thank you Martin) and £50 with Quidco - total profit £84.96.

Taxi - well done on giving up smoking. :T :T :T

bobby-boy_2

Hi Everybody, new tax year so I got my bonus and knocked a bit off my total. Now the hard work of actually reducing it with my monthly income begins! Like I said earlier had planned on 18k by x-mass but hope this challenge motivates me that little bit more.
Good luck to every one

poorandindenial

Still snowing here, in East London. I am enjoying looking down the street and seeing who has heating on and who doeesn't from the roofs of the houses.

Anyhow - back on thread, I won £100 on the national yesterday so that will go nicely towards my total for this month - I was worried about going off track for the £20k because I have loads of birthdays and stuff this month but brilliantly I now will be fine - yay.

Well done everyone for all the great progress - and a special congrats for taxi for the brilliant bingo win.

Guesty6

Hi all,

very inspiring thread and it will be great to share advice and stories with others.

I currently have a debt of just over 20k and want to get it paid by the end of the year, already paid around 3-4k to get it to this stage and want to buy a house next year so I will be doing everything I can to get it done.

I have also joined the 10 pound a day challenge and will be putting in some time on that as 3650 a year would really help.

I have some assets to sell from my previous business that should pay most of the debt, but it will take alot of work to get all of it sold, I need to get cracking.

I will update my sig as often as possible.

Thanks all for giving the inspiration and place to share my achievements!

FrankieM

Morning,
I've had some money come through from ebay!! Yay!
I've had to pay fees so not as much as I'd like but stil £97....
Hope you guys are all doing well...

kizzykizzywizzy

Well done with the updates everyone- glad to hear you're still not smoking Taxi - great willpower:T
Well done on your win Jess, I did the £50 quidco thing too, didn't win, but was very happy to get in whilst it was still £50.
Well done FrankieM on your ebaying
Welcome to all the new people joining this challenge:D

andan

Welcome guesty6, youve dione well paying off so much already, best of luck with it all.

FrankieM, well done on the ebay amount, thats a nice profit. I wish i had things to sell on ebay but i have literally got rid of most of my stuff and the few bits that are left wouldn't sell.

Still, once i finish this boring assignment i will update totals and see if i have any money spare to do some matched betting.

taxi73

WOW EVERYONE SO MANY POSITIVE POSTS....it's lovely to see so many positive posts and everyone is doing so well..there are too many to mention individually though...I have nothing to update at the minute but I'm still not smoking (day 8) so it will all help in the long run...

Motoko_2

Hi All,

Saturday was a great day - my overdraft went back in to the black for the first time in a year YAY YAY YAY YAY :T
This will enable me to close the account and no more Abbey :j

That means only 3 debts left ( im grinning from ear to ear) Ok they are the biggest but I now have extra money to snowball my two cards - goal is to have them both paid off this year - then I can tackle the loan. :rolleyes:


Motoko