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  • Tezzadp
    Tezzadp Posts: 819 Forumite
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     HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE ❤️🫶🏼



    Debts on Jan 6th 2025

    Tesco Credit card 0% = £2273 
    Virgin Credit Card 0%  = £1230 
    Hastings Loan 12.70% = £2962.60 


    Total = £6465.60

    Natwest CC £0 - 25/12/25
  • Tezzadp said:
     HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE ❤️🫶🏼



    Thank you, I love this

    Happy New Year @Tezzadp, you’ve been inspirational
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  • Spendless
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    From your posts I dont expect you to be into this at all but my daughter was reading out to me earlier how this year has been the Chinese year of the snake. She said that as the snake sheds its skin it represents you getting rid of things that youve been clinging on to that are no longer right for you and clears a path for the following year of the horse to be able to gallop through. 

    I could relate some of what she was saying to my own.circs this year but it also reminded me of your diary where you spend the year 'shedding' the debt in order to clear a path for next year.

    Like I say I suspect youll think of it as mumbo jumbo 🤣 but I still thought it apt.

    Happy New Year to you. 
  • Tezzadp
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    Spendless said:
    From your posts I dont expect you to be into this at all but my daughter was reading out to me earlier how this year has been the Chinese year of the snake. She said that as the snake sheds its skin it represents you getting rid of things that youve been clinging on to that are no longer right for you and clears a path for the following year of the horse to be able to gallop through. 

    I could relate some of what she was saying to my own.circs this year but it also reminded me of your diary where you spend the year 'shedding' the debt in order to clear a path for next year.

    Like I say I suspect youll think of it as mumbo jumbo 🤣 but I still thought it apt.

    Happy New Year to you. 
    Thank you. Yes i have found a few quotes on it now you have mentioned it. I'm glad you can relate to it, it certainly relates to my journey so far. Thank you x Happy New Year x


    Debts on Jan 6th 2025

    Tesco Credit card 0% = £2273 
    Virgin Credit Card 0%  = £1230 
    Hastings Loan 12.70% = £2962.60 


    Total = £6465.60

    Natwest CC £0 - 25/12/25
  • Tezzadp
    Tezzadp Posts: 819 Forumite
    500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
                                 

    Debts on Jan 6th 2025

    Tesco Credit card 0% = £2273 
    Virgin Credit Card 0%  = £1230 
    Hastings Loan 12.70% = £2962.60 


    Total = £6465.60

    Natwest CC £0 - 25/12/25
  • Tezzadp
    Tezzadp Posts: 819 Forumite
    500 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
                               

    Debts on Jan 6th 2025

    Tesco Credit card 0% = £2273 
    Virgin Credit Card 0%  = £1230 
    Hastings Loan 12.70% = £2962.60 


    Total = £6465.60

    Natwest CC £0 - 25/12/25
  • Sun_Addict
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    Sharing this with you: 


    I get knocked down but I get up again (Chumbawamba, Tubthumping)
  • Tezzadp
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    Excellent. Thanks for sharing. TFL and The London Underground always have some very inspiring and well thought out written signs like this. There should definitely be more of this throughout the country imo. 
    Debts on Jan 6th 2025

    Tesco Credit card 0% = £2273 
    Virgin Credit Card 0%  = £1230 
    Hastings Loan 12.70% = £2962.60 


    Total = £6465.60

    Natwest CC £0 - 25/12/25
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