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Awesome August's No-Spend Days Challenge!

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  • AuntieL
    AuntieL Posts: 373 Forumite
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    NSD today 😁
    Debt-free journey started August 2023. DF 02/09/2024 🥳 (except mortgage)
    August 2025 NSD Challenge 1/18

    MFW 2025 #45
    Jan 2016 Mortgage = £149,895
    Current outstanding = £97,725
    2024 Overpayment = £675.66
    2025 Overpayment = £593/£700
  • short_bird
    short_bird Posts: 4,022 Forumite
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    And Wednesday is NSD 14.
    ‘Keep your eye on the donut and not on the hole.’ David Lynch.
    "It’s a beautiful day with golden sunshine and blue skies all the way.” David Lynch.
  • Makingabobor2
    Makingabobor2 Posts: 4,220 Forumite
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    1 for today. Just planned grocery shopping from budget which I allow
    Making the debt go down and savings go up

    LBM 2015 - debt £57K / Now £28,744....its going down

     Mortgage Free December 9th 2024! 
    18mths ahead of schedule.  Since 2022 we paid over £15K in OPs.

    Challenges

    EF #68  £550/£3000
    .

    Studies/surveys  August £7.48

    Decluttering items 771

    Books read    14
    Jigsaws done  8

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


  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,658 Forumite
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    edited 21 August 2024 at 4:30PM
    Another one for me today. :)

    August results updated here :):)
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,658 Forumite
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    edited 22 August 2024 at 4:32PM
    August NSD challenge


    Off to a start = image

    5 days = image

    10 days = image

    15 days = image

    20 days = image

    Target reached = image

    Target beaten = image


    August targets


    AppleADay2024 10

    AuntieL 9/15  image  image  

    beanielou 21/19  image  image   image   image  image  image  image

    Caeraugirl 4/10  image 

    cathybird 5/10  image  image  

    Crazycatlady2 12/20  image  image   image  

    Doris17 6/12  image  image 

    Geriatricmum 5/10  image  image 

    HotDog2020 8/15  image  image 

    ilovetea 12/20   image  image   image 

    KajiKita 17/18  image  image   image   image

    laura lau 14/18   image  image   image 

    laurenh 9/18  image  image  


    leftatthetrafficlights 24

    LittleMissDetermined 13/18   image  image   image 

    Makingabobor2 8/15  image  image 

    MoneyFreedom24 5/15  image  image 


    Mrs Cautious

    Rupacomp 7/12  image  image 


    Saver-upper

    SecondStar 7/16  image  image 

    short bird 14/22   image  image   image 

    Worlds Worst Superhero 17/20  image  image   image   image





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  • HotDog2020
    HotDog2020 Posts: 593 Forumite
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    cathybird said:
    Another one for me today. :)

    August results updated here :):)
    Wow you have now got off to a good start for the month...well done.
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,725 Forumite
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    NSD Wednesday here 😊

    KK
    As at 15.07.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £233,521
    - OPs to mortgage = £11,816 Interest saved £5,28 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 41 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 9th August
    Produce tracker: £272 of £300 in 2025

    Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
    Watch your words, they become your actions. 
    Watch your actions, they become your reality. 
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,658 Forumite
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    cathybird said:
    Another one for me today. :)

    August results updated here :):)
    Wow you have now got off to a good start for the month...well done.
    @HotDog2020 thank you, I think the jetlag helped! xx 
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,599 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    One today. 
    I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.

    Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
    "A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.

    ***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb.
    ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
    One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.
  • AuntieL
    AuntieL Posts: 373 Forumite
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    Early call for an NSD today. Determined to at least make double figures this month 👊
    Debt-free journey started August 2023. DF 02/09/2024 🥳 (except mortgage)
    August 2025 NSD Challenge 1/18

    MFW 2025 #45
    Jan 2016 Mortgage = £149,895
    Current outstanding = £97,725
    2024 Overpayment = £675.66
    2025 Overpayment = £593/£700
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