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Payment A Day - Chapter 2023
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Good morning all
£61.50 to various places for me today
LMD xLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£60000 -
Morning all,
The total PAD for 14 August 2023 was £100.95
We often have to take the rough with the smooth in life, as both good and bad times helps to shape us. So we must...
Debt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/502 -
Good morning
£38.44 for me today to savings
LMD xLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£60001 -
Morning all,
The total PAD for 15 August 2023 was £61.50
My friend sent me this and it made me chuckle so I thought I'd share it (apologies if we have completely different sense of humour 🤦🏾♀️😂). But it also made me realise how much we have to make the most of it...
Debt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/500 -
Back with my own PAD of £2.18 to Mobile Madness.
You're keeping us going at the moment with your consistent PADs @LittleMissDetermined 🤗.
Debt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/500 -
I keep putting too much in my EF, so will be less moving forwards. Think you have added your PAD amount for today as yesterday's total?Keedie said:Back with my own PAD of £2.18 to Mobile Madness.
You're keeping us going at the moment with your consistent PADs @LittleMissDetermined 🤗.Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£60001 -
Thanks for pointing that out! Oh sleep deprivation is really not the greatest is it? 🤦🏾♀️😂. I actually managed some sleep last night so I'll be posting the correct PAD for yesterday and I have corrected the one for the 15 August to read as £61.50. 🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️🤦🏾♀️LittleMissDetermined said:
I keep putting too much in my EF, so will be less moving forwards. Think you have added your PAD amount for today as yesterday's total?Keedie said:Back with my own PAD of £2.18 to Mobile Madness.
You're keeping us going at the moment with your consistent PADs @LittleMissDetermined 🤗.Debt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/501 -
Good morning all,
£14.12 to savings for me today
LMD xLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£60001 -
Morning all,
The total PAD for 16 August 2023 was £40.62
We all get things wrong (exhibit A is my deprived mistakes that I keep making as shown above), but I think I'm slowly learning to not be so hard on myself, and that has been a liberating feeling. And it's down to this quote that I discovered last year and printed and stuck on my bedroom wall in recent months. It reminds me it's okay to stumble, as long as I continue on my journey...
Debt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/500 -
Back with my PAD of £6 for the £2 challengeDebt Free Diary:- The Mental Debt Struggle
(Original Debt on 15/07/2016 was £33,056.76) 🙈 but Debt Free on 09/02/2025 🎉
2025 SAVINGS: Emergency Fund (£604.30/£5,000) 12.09% saved
2025 CHALLENGES: #16 Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18 || #9 50 Envelope Challenge 22/500
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