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Marvellous March's NSD Challenge!
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Yes there's a shiny new month just round the corner, any thoughts on targets? ...
March targetsbeanielou 15bekah89 15 cathybird 15 cherry 22 15 craftingmad Crazycatlady2 GeorgianaCavendish jammy dodger 20 KajiKita 15 leftatthetrafficlights 15 LittleMissDetermined Makingabobor2 Money Choices MrsCautious QueenJess 15 Rupacomp 10 Saver-upper Scowles short bird 18
Newcomers welcome
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NSD today.15 for April.KKAs at 15.01.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £222,084
- OPs to mortgage = £12,881 Estd. interest saved = £6,203 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 9 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 27th January
Produce tracker: £36 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.2 -
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One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.2 -
Another one today, up to 11/15 Only 3 days till end of month, so not going to make it.Making the debt go down and savings go up
LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £27,424....its going down
Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 18mths ahead of schedule.Challenges
EF £1290/£3000
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Studies/surveys Feb....£25.17
Decluttering items 1402/2025. 82/2026
Books read 23 in 2025. 2026- 4 (target is 52)
Jigsaws done 20 in 2025. 2 this year.
My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up2 -
MarchOff to a start =5 days =
10 days =
15 days =
20 days =
Target reached = 
Target beaten = 
March targets
beanielou 21/15
bekah89 14/15
cathybird 24/15
cherry 22 16/18
craftingmad 2/15
Crazycatlady2 19/20
GeorgianaCavendish 19/20
jammy dodger 20/20
KajiKita 16/15
leftatthetrafficlights 21/20
LittleMissDetermined 17/17
Makingabobor2 11/15
Money Choices 10/10
MrsCautious 13/20
QueenJess 16/18
Rupacomp 15/18
Saver-upper 11/15
Scowles 10
short bird 19/18
Newcomers welcome
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Well, until about 5 minutes ago, this was a NSD. Then my 19yo son comes home from work and asks if I can buy his next month's bus ticket. Would have felt a bit silly asking him if I could buy it after midnight to keep my NSD
So I'm going to cheat a bit, and call it NSD#11 anyway!
My target for March, as usual, was 15. But this month there has been a lot of days where an NSD has been "wasted" due to a one- off, necessary spend: dental treatment, children's school lunch card top-up, monthly bus tickets x 2 for son, dog food........(5 NSDs lost just in that list there!! ) Over the last few days I've been thinking how I can save a few more of these lost NSDs. I guess it will be things like topping up lunch cards with larger amounts, instead of little and often, maybe buying twice as much dog food at a time as I do at the moment. Things to ponder......
Could you put me down for 15 NSDs in April please cathybird? Thank you xSPC #36 :staradminx 8.SPC7=£751.10 SPC8=£651.04 SPC9=£843.00 SPC10=£872.76
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Well done QueenJess, LittleMissDetermined, cherry 22, GeorgianaCavendish, Crazycatlady2, short bird, QueenJess, jammy dodger, KajiKita, beanie, Makingabobor2 and Saver-upper
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@Saver-upper Public transport is one of the things it's completely fine to exclude anyway so you're not cheating! x 3
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Things that are regular and necessary like dog food, petrol and bus etc I wouldn’t count as I kind of account for them at months start so it’s spoken for even if not spent if that makes sense 😂Saver-upper said:Well, until about 5 minutes ago, this was a NSD. Then my 19yo son comes home from work and asks if I can buy his next month's bus ticket. Would have felt a bit silly asking him if I could buy it after midnight to keep my NSD So I'm going to cheat a bit, and call it NSD#11 anyway!
My target for March, as usual, was 15. But this month there has been a lot of days where an NSD has been "wasted" due to a one- off, necessary spend: dental treatment, children's school lunch card top-up, monthly bus tickets x 2 for son, dog food........(5 NSDs lost just in that list there!! ) Over the last few days I've been thinking how I can save a few more of these lost NSDs. I guess it will be things like topping up lunch cards with larger amounts, instead of little and often, maybe buying twice as much dog food at a time as I do at the moment. Things to ponder......
Could you put me down for 15 NSDs in April please cathybird? Thank you x4 -
Right so today I’m buying a shed and chip shop tea so a spend day 🤷♀️3
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