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Time to grow up and stand up

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  • thriftylass
    thriftylass Posts: 4,036 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Hi again,

    I haven't ordered a fridge yet as the conservatory is now cold again for a while. 

    Payday today and I shuffled my money around, paid debts and I will start the envelope system again. I will take cash out for food, fuel and maybe £50 fun money. I also ordered DD birthday gifts, using deals, cashback and promo codes where I could. She had quite a long list but I told her to write down a  selection and I'll pick a few so it's more or a surprise this time but she knows there is a budget,

    DS is going on a school trip tomorrow abroad. Got everything apart from 1 or 2 t-shirts which we'll get tonight from Asda or Tesco while doing a top up shop.
    finally tea total but in still in (more) debt (Oct 25 CC £1800, loan £6453, mortgage £59,924/158,000)
  • Debtfree2026
    Debtfree2026 Posts: 99 Forumite
    10 Posts Name Dropper
    Sounds like everything is going well.  I also did the pay day shuffle yesterday!  Interesting to read about the cash stuffing - the digital stuffing is working well for me but I am mesmerised by watching cash stuffing videos on TikTok!
    Nationwide CC: £1,309.48/£1,209.48/£447.96/£0
    Littlewoods: £808.91/573.66/£472.66/£0

    MBNA: £10,413.25/£10,425.28/£9,749.12/£9,830.00/£8.700/£7,900/£7,400/£7,200/£7,000/£6,800
    HSBC Loan: £15,156.57/£14,697.28/£14,237.99/£13,778.70/£13,319.41/£12,860.12/£12,400.83/£11,941.54/£11,482.25/£10,982.25/£10,482.25

    Total: £27,688.21/£26,893.67/£25,583.89/£24,663.27/£23,527.82/£23,149.41/£21,560.12/£20,300.83/£19,341.54/£18,682.25/£17,982.25/£17,282.25
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