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Splendid September's No-Spend Days Challenge!

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  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 1,198 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Debt-free and Proud!
    It's a 19/20 NSD Sunday!  :D
    ~ NSD 2025 - NSD September 21/20 (9 x💯)
    # Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel - Ongoing - 1 x £25 Voucher Redeemed, 26 FREE Books of RM Stamps & Presentation Packs.
    ~ Totally FREE Christmas 2025 - 🎁✉️🏷🎀💐🪪🗒🧺
    ⭐️Completed Challenges 2025:
    # No.36 Make £2025 in 2025 £824.80 / £2025  (4) 💯💯💯
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2025 £730/ £730 💯
    # No.27 Save 1p A Day 2025 £667.95 / £667.95 💯
    # No.19 52 Week Env Challenge £1378 / £1378 💯 
    # No.34 Save £12k in 2025 £18,551.17 / £12,000 💯 (8) - Continuing
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 15,768 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 22 September at 10:26PM
    September 2025 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


    September targets


    Afdaff 10 

    AuntieL 14/18  image  image  image  

    beanielou 20/19  image  image  image   image  image  image  image

    Caeraugirl 10 

    cathybird 16/15  image  image  image   image  image  image

    Changeyourlife25 5/10  image  image 

    Crazybee787 10/19  image  image  image  

    Crazycatlady2 15 

    Dizzycap 20/20  image  image  image   image  image  image 

    Doris17 15 

    Emmel 12 

    InDebtEnby 9/13  image  image 

    KajiKita 17/20  image  image  image   image 

    laurenh1 14/18  image  image  image  

    LittleMissDetermined 13/15  image  image  image  

    Pinkpieuni 12/10  image  image  image   image  image

    Prodigal50 8/10  image  image 

    Quantaqa 15 

    QueenJess 15/15  image  image  image   image  image 

    Scrumpy18 10 

    short bird 14/18   image  image  image  

    Tenar15 8/10   image  image 

    thepurplepixie 15  

    Thriftymissus 24  

    VickyA 2 11/15   image  image  image  


    To see the updated results for September on phone or tablet, click here :)


    🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞
  • QueenJess
    QueenJess Posts: 4,589 Forumite
    Eighth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Name Dropper
    Declaring a NSD today.
    2025 decluttering: 5,121 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟
    2025 use up challenge: 363🥉🥈🥇💎🏆
    Mini freezer challenge -1/-20
    Big kitchen declutter challenge 121/150
    2025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 500
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 96,230 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.
  • laurenh1
    laurenh1 Posts: 1,018 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    One today please :) 
  • Prodigal50
    Prodigal50 Posts: 120 Forumite
    100 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper
    Another 4 days please :-)

    Jan 2022
    Owed approx 70,000 in consumer debt

    Dec 2024/August 2025
    Loan 1 4750/0
    Loan 2 10690/0
    Card 1 10764/7578
    Card 2  5674/4230
    Card 3 5158/0
    Total 37036/11803

    Emergency Fund 0/2000

    2022 Over 70k debt. Time to change!
    2022-25 Paying off debt. 
    2025 Cash lump sum used to pay down debt quicker than hoped. 
    2025+???? Stay happy and in control of my finances

  • LittleMissDetermined
    LittleMissDetermined Posts: 9,785 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Debt-free and Proud! Photogenic
    Finally another one today
    LMD x
    Life gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...
    My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me
    2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017
    Sealed pot 2025 £6991 | EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3530/£6000 | Travel savings £1828 | Sinking pots £2827
  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 1,198 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Debt-free and Proud!
    It's a 20/20 NSD Monday here!  :D<3 This month is absolutely whizzing by!  :o:s:o
    ~ NSD 2025 - NSD September 21/20 (9 x💯)
    # Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel - Ongoing - 1 x £25 Voucher Redeemed, 26 FREE Books of RM Stamps & Presentation Packs.
    ~ Totally FREE Christmas 2025 - 🎁✉️🏷🎀💐🪪🗒🧺
    ⭐️Completed Challenges 2025:
    # No.36 Make £2025 in 2025 £824.80 / £2025  (4) 💯💯💯
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2025 £730/ £730 💯
    # No.27 Save 1p A Day 2025 £667.95 / £667.95 💯
    # No.19 52 Week Env Challenge £1378 / £1378 💯 
    # No.34 Save £12k in 2025 £18,551.17 / £12,000 💯 (8) - Continuing
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 8,144 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    NSD here today 😊

    KK
    As at 15.09.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £230,969
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,270 Interest saved £5,816 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 51 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 17th September
    Produce tracker: £389 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. 
  • CrazyBee787
    CrazyBee787 Posts: 1,119 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 22 September at 5:36PM
    Hi @cathybird does spending £7348 on a car count as a spend 🤣🤣 I didn't spend on anything else
    New Missions to take me into the New Year 2026!:-

    1) Clear CC2 first £624.46
    2) Pay SFD back £1440.47
    3) Pay SFD back £1000.00
    4) Pay MD Back £649.00
    5) Pay back 0% Interest now standing at £2223.78
    Total debt: - £5937.71
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