October 2025 NSD challenge
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Outstanding October's No-Spend Days Challenge!
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Hi, got booted out of my account and didn't have patience to get back in!
Please add another 5 days bringing me to 12 of 18.‘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.1 -
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October targetsAuntieL 12/18
beanielou 19/19
Caeraugirl 10cathybird 13/15
Changeyourlife25 2/10
Crazybee787 10/12
Crazycatlady2 15Dizzycap 19/20
doingitanyway 6/12
Doris17 3/15
Emmel 12InDebtEnby 14/13
KajiKita 15/20
laurenh1 11/18
LittleMissDetermined 14/18
Pinkpieuni 12/10
Prodigal50 10Quantaqa 15QueenJess 7/15
short bird 12/18
Tenar15 10VickyA 2 10/15
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It's one for me today
LMD xLife gets in the way...PADding is addictive...Saving's better than spending...My savings diary - Now for a healthier, wealthier me2025 1p challenge #41 | Cash envelope challenge #01 | SPC #017EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £3677/£60001 -
One for today please x1
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Declaring early. NSD number 6 please @cathybirdIf you have built castles in the air, your work should not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them
Emergency fund 350/1000
Buffer fund 100/100
Debt Free (again) 25/07/20251 -
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"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.1 -
Nsd yesterday.
Challenges
NSD - Nov 9/10
Pay off all your debts by Christmas 2025 #7 £6,500/£6,500 - All gone, paid off.
52 Week Envelope Saving Challenge #7 £1,378/£1,378 -(52/52)
The Save £12k in 2025 challenge #4 £12,317/£30,500
2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes #61 £34,501.82/£38,000
Mortgage - Jan 2025 £75,600-Current bal £38,405.76 Target MF (Jun 26) 240 days.
Loan - Jan 2025 £4,095 - Current balance £1,544.37
"Look after the pennies and the pounds will look after themselves"
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After a few spendy days, back to being an NSD today 😁Debt-free journey started August 2023. DF 02/09/2024 🥳 (except mortgage)
October 2025 NSD Challenge 10/18MFW 2025 #45
Jan 2016 Mortgage = £150, 894 (23years 0months)
Current outstanding = £93,904 (10years 6months)
2024 Overpayment = £675.66
2025 Overpayment = £681/£7001 -
Well done folks with those fabulous NSDs
It's a 19/20 NSD Monday here
~ NSD 2025 - NSD November 22/15 (11 x💯)# Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel - On Rest - 2 x £25 Vouchers Redeemed, 29 FREE Books of RM Stamps & 2 x Presentation Pack.~ Totally FREE Christmas 2025 - 🎁✉️🏷🎀💐🪪🗒🧺⭐️Completed Challenges 2025:# No.36 Make £2025 in 2025 £1756.28 / £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 £21,877.08 / £12,000 💯 (11) - Continuing2 -
One for me today 😊
KKAs at 15.11.25:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £228,473
- OPs to mortgage = £12,345 Estd. interest saved = £5,863 to date
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 68 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 26th November
Produce tracker: £442 of £300 in 2025
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Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1
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