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  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 1,374 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Debt-free and Proud!
    It's a very early call for a 6/20 NSD Monday here! Ho, ho, ho and back on the NSD train we go! Jingle, jingle, toot, toot Santa will arrive with my unspent loot! :D
    ~ NSD 2026 - NSD January 0/20 (1)
    # Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel 2026 - On Rest
    # No.36 Make £2026 in 2026 £0 / £2026 (1)
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2026 £0 / £730 (1)
    # No.2 Save 1p A Day 2026 £0 / £667.95 (1)
    # No.19 52 Week Env Challenge 2026 £0 / £1378 (1)
    # No.4 Save £12k in 2026 £0 / £12,000 (1)
    # No.16 Sealed (Christmas) Pot Challenge 19 - 2026 - 24/12/25 - 24/10 2026 £40+ / £400 (1)
  • InDebtEnby
    InDebtEnby Posts: 227 Forumite
    100 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    2nd one for me
    Current No Spend Challenge: 10/13
    2025 No Spend Days: 157/150
    Bank Loan Original End Date: 08/2030
    Current End Date: 01/2030
  • beanielou
    beanielou Posts: 97,493 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.
  • Early call for one 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
    EF £1000/£1000 | Sabbatical £4055/£6000
  • Pinkpieuni
    Pinkpieuni Posts: 206 Forumite
    100 Posts First Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Nsd today.

    Challenges

    NSD - Dec 9/10

    The Save £12k in 2025 challenge #4 £12,317/£30,500

    2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes #61 £42,801.82/£38,000

    Mortgage @ Jan 2025 £75,600-Current bal £29,851.26 Target  MF - Jun 26, 187 days away.


    2026 Challenges

    NSD - January 

    1. 2026 Mortgage-Free Wannabes #61 £ /£29,000, MF target June 2026, current mortgage balance - £29,851.26

    mortgage @ Jan 2025 - £75,600

    2. Loan  - Jan 2026 £1,029.22 - Current balance £1,029.22

    3.52 Week Envelope Saving Challenge #2 £/£1,378 -( /52)

  • laurenh1
    laurenh1 Posts: 1,059 Forumite
    Tenth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    One for yesterday and one for today please 
  • KajiKita
    KajiKita Posts: 9,017 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Fourth Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Not one today - saw a wonder gadget on a GW special last night, so ordered one before I could forget what it was! 

    KK
    As at 15.12.25:
    - When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £227,385
    - OPs to mortgage = £12,822 Estd. interest saved = £6,166 to date
    Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030

    Read 79 books of target 52 in 2025, as @ 24th December 
    Produce tracker: £453 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. 
  • VickyA_2
    VickyA_2 Posts: 4,634 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    Another NSD here, so I'm now on 3/15  B)
    Sealed Pot Challenge #021 #8 975.71 #9 £881.44 #10 £961.13 #11 £782.13 #12 £741.83 #13 £2135.22 #14 £895.53 #15 £1240.40 #16 £1805.87 #17 £1820.01 #18 £2021.83 declared
  • cathybird
    cathybird Posts: 16,029 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    edited 9 December at 4:05PM
    December 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


    December targets


    AuntieL 5/15  image  image 


    beanielou 7/19  image  image 


    BogStandardBob 12 


    cathybird 6/15  image  image 


    Dizzycap 7/20  image  image 


    doingitanyway 12 


    Doris17 15 


    InDebtEnby 2/13  image 


    KajiKita 5/18  image  image 


    laurenh1 5/18  image  image 


    leftatthetrafficlights 6/15  image  image 


    LittleMissDetermined 6/15  image  image 


    Pinkpieuni 2/10  image 


    Prodigal50 10 


    QueenJess 15 


    short bird 18  


    VickyA 2 3/15   image 



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


    🌞 🌞  Newcomers welcome! 🌞 🌞
  • Dizzycap
    Dizzycap Posts: 1,374 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Photogenic Debt-free and Proud!
    It's a NSD 7/20 rainy Tuesday here!  :/ Hibinating today  :D
    ~ NSD 2026 - NSD January 0/20 (1)
    # Spectos/Royal Mail Monitoring and Posting Panel 2026 - On Rest
    # No.36 Make £2026 in 2026 £0 / £2026 (1)
    # No.12 Save £2 a Day 2026 £0 / £730 (1)
    # No.2 Save 1p A Day 2026 £0 / £667.95 (1)
    # No.19 52 Week Env Challenge 2026 £0 / £1378 (1)
    # No.4 Save £12k in 2026 £0 / £12,000 (1)
    # No.16 Sealed (Christmas) Pot Challenge 19 - 2026 - 24/12/25 - 24/10 2026 £40+ / £400 (1)
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