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Payment a Day - Chapter 2024

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  • Keedie
    Keedie Posts: 2,856 Forumite
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    Welcome aboard @davidm29, and just have fun with it. You can PAD in whatever way suits you, and send it to debts or savings. Just declare your PAD in bold to help the counter upper keep a track of everything.

    My PADs are:

    £27 to the emergency fund
    £14.06 to the 18th birthday pot
    £0.94 cash back to the secret stash

    Total of £42
    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 22/50
  • Divingmad
    Divingmad Posts: 577 Forumite
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    Morning @davidm29 and welcome to the board,
    The saving can be put to pretty much whatever you feel.
    Do you have things like an emergency fund set up? If not, this may be a good thing to start putting it towards? Or do you have CC balance that needs paying down? Alternatively, are your balances on a lower interest rate than that you could get by saving it, i.e have a CC balance on a zero percent rate and you could get 4%+ on? In which case it could be worth putting the saving away to get a better rate of interest and pay things off in block amounts? Or a holiday that you want to save for?
    The possibilities are endless, we are all PADing to different things and there's no wrong thing to put it towards, it's whatever you want to do with it
    DM
    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%)
  • Hi all, late in the day for me but £80 has been sent to various places today
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    Sealed pot 2025 £6573 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3364/£6000 | Travel savings £1508 | Sinking pots £2571
  • Prodigal50
    Prodigal50 Posts: 112 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper
    Hello @davidm29!

    Just whatever you think will be the best use for it. 

    my £5 is going towards CC1
    Jan 2022
    Owed approx 70,000 in consumer debt

    Dec 2024/August 2025
    Loan 1 4750/0
    Loan 2 10690/0
    Card 1 10764/7578
    Card 2  5674/4230
    Card 3 5158/0
    Total 37036/11803

    Emergency Fund 0/2000

    2022 Over 70k debt. Time to change!
    2022-25 Paying off debt. 
    2025 Cash lump sum used to pay down debt quicker than hoped. 
    2025+???? Stay happy and in control of my finances

  • davidm29
    davidm29 Posts: 8 Forumite
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    £5 today, went in to a separate savings pot. BOt quite decided what to do with it yet!
  • Keedie
    Keedie Posts: 2,856 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Back with another PAD of £1.51 into the secret stash savings pot
    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 22/50
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,742 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    £35 to MBNA
    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
  • Divingmad
    Divingmad Posts: 577 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Morning All 
    The PAD total for the 10th June come in at £174.79
    DM x
    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%)
  • Morning, £16.48 today
  • Good morning 
    £5 to the sabbatical today please
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    Sealed pot 2025 £6573 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3364/£6000 | Travel savings £1508 | Sinking pots £2571
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