January 2026 NSD challenge
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Joyous January's No-Spend Days Challenge!
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NSD 3/12 for me, please!2
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Managed another today 😊. Not sure I'll get to 15 with all the Christmas reductions still around though 😂12/15 NSDs in January2
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Oh my word @Dizzycap! What a lucky puppy to have been rescued by you. They are such loving little dogs. Ours will sleep in the back of my cardigan when I work from home for pretty much the whole working day, and every now and then will just poke her head out the top to lick me.
Ours nearly starved to death in a kennels. She had been weighed by a vet at 4.5kg and the vets observations were that she was a heathy dog and scored the highest on her coat condition.
We got her 8 days after that, and I've never had a dog before, but could tell she was thin and weak. I sat on the floor when we met her trying not to frighten her, and she crawled into my lap and closed her eyes within seconds and went to sleep. We took her straight to a vet who weighed her at just over 3.3kg and remarked that she was in very poor health, malnourished, worryingly close to starvation.
We think she was intended to breed as she's a Silver Dappled. We know her previous owner bred designer cats, so we've made that assumption. We reported the kennels obviously.I'm always in it. It's just the depth that varies.Immediate Problem: Overdraft: £752.59 * Paypal £671.07 * Creation £592.74 = £2,016.04Phase 1: Vanquis CC £4100.11 * Tesco CC £3996.60 * Capital One CC £3800 = £11,896.71Phase 2: Zopa Loan: £12,7552 -
NSD here today 😊
KKAs at 17.04.26:
- When bought house £315,995 mortgage debt and end date at start = October 2039 - now £216,847
- OPs to mortgage = £17,793 Estd. interest saved = £9,021 to date
c. 16 months reduction in term
Fixed rate 3.85% ends October 2030
Read 28 books of target 52 in 2026 as @ 23rd April.
Produce tracker: £78 of £400 in 2026
Watch your thoughts, they become your words.
Watch your words, they become your actions.Watch your actions, they become your reality.1 -
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January targets32b3in2013 1/18
AuntieL 6/15
beanielou 8/19
cathybird 6/15
Changeyourlife25 2/10
cuddlymarm 5/15
Dizzycap 7/20
doingitanyway 3/12
Doris17 7/15
Honeysucklelou2 2/10
ilovetea 6/20
InDebtEnby 5/13
KajiKita 7/20
laurenh1 4/18
leftatthetrafficlights 15LittleMissDetermined 5/20
loopylupin 5/10
Mamma2004 3/10
MissMoneyMishap 5/12
NeverendingDMP 1/10
Pinkpieuni 3/10
Prodigal50 4/10
RhiBi 3/10
RollinginClover 15ShelivesintheShire 7/20
snugglenush 2/10
SovereigntyQueen 31Tenar15 3/12
Thriftymissus 7/20
ThriftyPrincess40 7/20
VickyA 2 4/15
Wanna Bee Free 4/10
yellowstickerfan 3/15
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Another NSD today. 6/20 now.
Tomorrow will be a spend day as need quite a few bits. Been good and only ordered what I really need.
ilovetea xxMake £2026 in 2026 £212-64
Declutter 160 items in 2026
NSD's in Jan. 24/20. Feb 18/202 -
A very early call for a 7/20 NSD Thursday
This week seems to be zoooooming by 
No sooner do we start the monthly challenge than it's done 
I'll be halfway by the end of the weekend as no spends planned, but have a medical necessity spend on Monday with hopefully, no more planned for the rest of the month
Spring is looming with all my planted and tubbed bulbs shoot their heads at least an inch above the soil
It gives us all something to hold onto during these cold grey months. February always does my head in!
# No.2 Save 1p A Day Challenge 2026 £236.68 / £667.95 (4)# No.4 Save £12k in 2026 £6,234.25 / £12,000 (4)# No.4 £2 Savers Club 2026 - (25/12 - 24/10) £100 / £200 (4)# No.8 Sealed Pot Challenge 19 - 2026 - 24/12 - 24/10 £60+ / £400 (4)# No.5 Fiver Friday Challenge 2026 £85/£230 (4)# Make £2026 in 2026 £1933.69 / £2026 (4)2 -
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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*** in ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger.
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan. 19months left.2 -
Good morning
One today please making it 5/15 NSDs
Pay off by Xmas 2026 £175/£2324.67
February NSDs 6/15
February PADs £55
February grocery challenge £67.42/£2002 -
NSD today 💪🏻🥳#no 3 Debts off by Xmas 2026 £2175/£15,250
NSD March 14/22 NSD April 17/22
#no 13 365 days 1p challenge 2026 90/365
£40.95/£667.95
#no 2 £2 coin savers challenge 2026
#no 11 SPC 19 £44 banked restart
2026 PAD challenge £2175
1% challenge = 14.2%
#cc1 700/4100 29%
#cc2 NatWest 600/3400 29%
#cc3 Halifax 390/2150 26%
#cc4. MBNA 485/5600 0% runs out soon
#loan1 1300/14000 7.2%
#loan2 858/11000 13%
#family loan /4000 0%#solicitors /8000
Crisis fund 320/5002
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