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Payment A Day - Chapter 2023

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  • Good morning! £13 to various places, including £3 to the EF for me today
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #7 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Divingmad
    Divingmad Posts: 577 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Afternoon all. It's payday so I've transferred £180 to various places
    I feel like a Pelican - everywhere I look there's a bill staring at me!LBM: March 2014 Current CC debt: £2048.29/£3666.53 (55.86% repaid) Current Challenges:Tilly Tidy: £2087.67/£2500 (83.50%) 3 to 6 month emergency fund #75: £3653.62/£6000 (60.89%)
  • Managed a prolific cash out of £8.70 so sent that to the sealed pot
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #7 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Spinayarn
    Spinayarn Posts: 237 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper
    Overtime payment today of £194.78 that’s gone into different pots.
    My Debt Free journey - started 1 May 2023. Goal date October 2026 ACHIEVED SEPTEMBER 2025
    Total Debt paid off: £28006.30 

    Savings £662
  • IndiJonesi
    IndiJonesi Posts: 505 Forumite
    500 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    £396.48
    was the PAD total for
    Friday, 28th July 2023
  • £3 added to the EF this morning
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #7 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • £200 sent to savings this afternoon
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #7 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Jrcoal5
    Jrcoal5 Posts: 647 Forumite
    Fourth Anniversary 500 Posts Name Dropper
    Pay day check in a bit late as it was yesterday’s but £1050  that’s £50 Xmas pot, £100 to birthday/miscellaneous £100 to car pot, £800 to house renovations xx
    Pay off debt by Xmas 2023 #23
    paid £7112/£7800-**DEBT FREE April 2024**

    My debt free diary https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6436651/clearing-my-debt-after-25-years#latest

    £9400 saved for emergency fund 

  • Spinayarn
    Spinayarn Posts: 237 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper
    Caved in and withdrew money from Prolific plus a bit from Etsy - £30.80 into the Emergency Fund.
    My Debt Free journey - started 1 May 2023. Goal date October 2026 ACHIEVED SEPTEMBER 2025
    Total Debt paid off: £28006.30 

    Savings £662
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,997 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    £3 to debt please
    27/5/17 Mort 64705 BTs 1904031/12/17 Mort 59815 BT 1673007/04/20 Mort 49208 BT 1572128/07/20 Mort 47387 BT 1263414/11/20 Mort 45905 BT 10134 20/05/21 Mort 42335 BT 686811/08/22 Mort 32050 BT 2915Sealed Pot Challenge 16 Number 5
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