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Dazzling December's No-Spend Days Challenge!

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  • 15/24 for me please
    DNF: £708.92/£1000
    JSF: £708.58/£1000

    Winter season grocery budget: £600.85/£900

    Weight loss challenge 2024: 11/24lbs
    1st quarter start:9st 13.1lb
    2nd quarter start:9st 9.2 lb
    3rd quarter start: 9st 6.8 lb
    4th quarter start: 9st 10.2 lb
    End weight: 8st 13lb

    'It's the small compromises you keep making over time that start to add up and get you to a place you don't want to be'

  • lilian1977
    lilian1977 Posts: 5,157 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Recording 4/7 today as am not going out. Bought Xmas gifts online but from the assigned budget.
    My debt free diary | Post Office loan: £2131 1429.38 | Barclaycard: £4429 1988.12 | Paypal Credit £322.71 574.91 | Monzo Flex £169.03 |

    Total £4151.44 | £2900.30 of £7051.74 paid off since diary started October 2024.
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 7,570 Forumite
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    NSD Sunday 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 = £11,338 Interest saved £5225 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends January 2030

    Read 39 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 27th July
    Produce tracker: £227 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. 
  • Another one today. Did buy some food items, but it was from shopping budget, so I don't count that. 
    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  £450/£3000
    .
    Fiver Friday '25 #10 £15

    Studies/surveys  July £72.46

    Decluttering items 753

    Books read    12
    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: 15,607 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 16 December 2024 at 9:22PM
    December 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 


    December targets


    AuntieL 15 


    beanielou 13/19  image  image  image


    BestnamesRgone 11/15  image  image  image


    Caeraugirl 5/15  image  image


    cathybird 12/15  image  image  image


    Doris17 8/12  image  image


    HotDog2020 6/10  image  image


    Janeryan 3/10  image 


    KajiKita 13/15  image  image  image


    laura lau 7/15  image  image


    laurenh1 8/15  image  image


    leftatthetrafficlights 15/24  image  image  image  image


    lilian1977 4/7  image 


    LittleMissDetermined 10/16  image  image  image 


    Makingabobor2 6/15  image  image


    Nintud 1/15  image 


    QueenJess 8/15  image  image 


    Rupacomp  


    SecondStar 11/15  image  image  image


    short bird 7/18   image  image 





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  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,607 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    December results updated here :):)
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 95,474 Ambassador
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Academoney Grad Mortgage-free Glee!
    one 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.
  • LittleMissDetermined
    LittleMissDetermined Posts: 9,612 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud! Photogenic
    edited 16 December 2024 at 9:35AM
    2 more for me please! Yesterday was one for me and no plans to spend 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 £5678 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3188/£6000 | Travel savings £1924 | Sinking pots £2126
  • Yesterday was a NSD, planning for one today too 😀
  • Up to 11 NSDs :)
    ‘When you only have two pennies left in the world, spend one on bread and the other on flowers. The bread will sustain life, the flowers will give you a reason to live.’

    Frugal living in 2024.
    Frugal living in 2025.

    261 No Spend Days in 2024!

    3-month Emergency Fund: £3,500 / £3,500 - DONE!
    1k Pet Emergency Fund - £1,000 / £1,000 - DONE!

    Nationwide 1 year 6.5% Savings - £400 / £2,400
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