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Hustling My Way to Debt Freedom. - Take 2
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Morning. Forgot to post yesterday. No money came in yesterday, so did a pound payment.
Yesterday and Today’s Payments - £4 (£1 yesterday and £3 from Vinted today) New Total - £10.29
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Forgot to post again yesterday. Really feel like I'm losing momentum at the moment and I can't let that happen. Will try and get hustling more this week.
Yesterday and Today's Payments - £6 (£1 yesterday as nothing came through and £5 today from Vinted) New Total - £4.29.
Tomorrow might be the day to clear this card, although I haven't got much in the pipeline in way of payments right now
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why not aim for month end? any earlier is a big boost
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Determined to stop defining myself by my mistakes. Progress not perfection. I’m not perfect but I’m good enough.
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6673398/hopefully-cruising-with-focus-towards-retirement#latest2 -
Today's Payment - £4.29 (from Prolific). New Total - £0.00!!
Spent an hour or so this morning doing surveys on Prolific until I got enough to cash out. Another card paid off, and this has freed up £40 a month.
My OH has debts too, so we are trying to clear both of ours. The Curry's account was his and we're taking it in turns to clear a debt, so it's back to him, and we're going to try and clear his Zable card, which has around £481.92 on it. My aim is to clear that by the end of August. That's just over £14 a day starting from tomorrow, so I need to get some chunky payments coming in.
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Your doing fab, its so hard to make that extra money and keep that motivation, keep going, any extra payment helps no matter how small or how often 😊
Debt 13-1-25 - £39K!!!
Mortgage 13-1-25 - £63K
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Well done on zapping another debt!
Debt Busting Again in 2026!
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Well done - will you re-direct the freed up £40 a month towards these debts too? They will really start tumbling if every one paid off releases more available funds.
Debt Free 🍾 since 6.8.13 £32kSaving for 🎄 🎁 2026 £671/£730 91.9%6 mth 🆘 fund £10kMortgage offset fund £23.2k/£25.1k 92%It turns out the answer to my problems wasn’t at the bottom of this tub of ice-cream, 🍨 but the important thing is that I tried...2 -
Well done and good luck 🤞 x
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Thanks everyone
I'm having a couple of days off making payments. My lungs really aren't liking this continued hot weather and yesterday was particularly awful. I've still had some good Vinted sales, so will have some good payments coming up.
I intend to start again on 1st August and try to get a debt clear by the end of the month. Might be a different debt too. I'll be back on Saturday.
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Sorry to hear that Emz. Take care xx
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