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Payment a Day - Chapter 2024

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  • LittleMissDetermined
    LittleMissDetermined Posts: 10,106 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud! Photogenic
    edited 1 November 2024 at 7:21AM
    Morning all, a whopper today as it includes mortgage and our holiday balance
    £2428.02 (I'm silently weeping)
    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
  • Amazing @LittleMissDetermined though I can understand the weeping! 

    £2.99 today please
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker

    £359.38

    Total for 31 Oct 24
    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
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,989 Forumite
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    GRAND TOTAL FOR OCT 24

    £7704.79 

    Well done everyone. @Keedie please can you update the yearly totals. Many thanks
    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
  • AntoMac
    AntoMac Posts: 2,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    My PADs for today sum to £99
    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
  • The total for 1st November was £3292.30 :o


    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
  • Cracking start to the month and a fantastic total for October! 
    Back with my PAD of just £5 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
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Morning, £40.76 today
  • Keedie
    Keedie Posts: 2,984 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Combo Breaker
    Fantastic totals for October 2024 everyone, so impressive! 🎉 Thanks again @AntoMac for being a great counter upper and I have updated the yearly total on the first page. 

    Such a great start to November 2024 as well, and thanks @LittleMissDetermined for being the counter upper.

    My PADs are:

    £50 to Help to Save
    £57.45 the Boosted Bufferoo
    £75 to The Gift
    £85 to Cruiin
    £40 to The Big Move
    £40 to The Graduate
    £40 The Life Fund
    £55 to Debt Buster

    £442.45 total PAD
    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: 2,989 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Wow, what an incredible start to November
    £15 to debt today
    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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