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Payment a Day - Chapter 2024

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  • Morning all
    £34.99 to various places 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
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Brilliant day yesterday, with a massive total between us of ......£681.45!!
    Keep up the good work everybody
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £27,644....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 
    18mths ahead of schedule.  

    Challenges

    EF #68  £950/£3000
    .

    Studies/surveys  December £75.87

    Decluttering items 1395/
    2025
    Books read    22
    Jigsaws done  18

    My debt free diary...https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6396218/we-will-get-this-debt-d£own-the-savings-up


  • meeemee
    meeemee Posts: 310 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Hi £21 to cc please 
  • £15.60 to various pots today :)
    Total debt remaining £15,664.21
  • Divingmad
    Divingmad Posts: 577 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 500 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Evening all
    Small PAD today of £1.00 to the holiday fund 
    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%)
  • Doily94
    Doily94 Posts: 585 Forumite
    500 Posts Third Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    £11.32 PAD to my loan please. 
    PAYDBC24 #8 ~ £10188.21
  • £12.98 PAD today
    February NSDs: 0 / 10
    February PADs:  2 / 29
    February Groceries Challenge: £59 / £250
    February Make £5 a Day: £255 / £145
    Current Debt: £3159  | CC £1490 | N £571 | C £725 | E £373
    Weight Loss Challenge 2024: 0 lbs

  • I'm losing the plot a little this week since coming back from being away over two weeks and need to catch up with everyone! 

    • PADS today:  Debt pay-off £43 (min payment plus overpayments)
    • Savings £44.81.
    Savings include to bills month ahead, £1 to buffer fund (plan is to gradually increase by £1 a week until I'm at £100 now I've made first target of £50), £25 to emergency fund and debt pay off savings (which is where I'm putting any extra money earned from cashback, extra income/usertesting etc.

    Total:  £87.81 

    @CMD79 that's amazing  finally getting rid of one debt entirely! 


                      


    Monthly Challenges| March Grocery Challenge - £255/£330 Make £10 a Day - £112/£310 
    2024 Challenges Pay-Off Debt for Christmas - £874/£6000

    Savings Goals Emergency Fund - £75/£2000 | 
    Month Ahead Bills  |   Month Ahead Minimum Debt Repayments
    Month Ahead Grocery -  £0/£30  [Month Ahead True Expenses £0/?] 

    My Debt Free Diary

    https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6490048/a-cup-of-coffee-and-two-paracetamol-debt-disability-and-getting-organised-like-the-chickens




  • Good morning, my PAD today includes the next holiday payment so £605
    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
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,987 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    £3 PAD today 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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