moneymabels debt free by 2009 challenge

Aussieonabudget

Hi all,

Thought I would pop in and say hi! Havent been on much cos just havent' had time at night to read through everyones posts - you guys write too much!!!!! LOL, I get too caught up reading posts and then OH gets mad that I don't pay enough attention to him - but he's away this weekend so I get the computer adn MSE all to myself!!! Its pretty exciting to see how much everyones debts have gone down by, you guys have done so well!

We've done pretty well this month as well, spent £250 below budget and payed off £1000 off debts! Unfortunatley £350 of that is becuase we are not paying rent so that we use up the 6 weeks bond before we move out. We will have to put that money towards the next bond so probably shouldn't have put it down as paying off debt but just couldn't resist!

Now I have to work out how to sign up to sell books on Amazon so that we don't have to take them with us when we move - any advice?

Hope everyone is well!
Aussie

moneymabel

well done Jen-you deserve it-enjoy your ds!!!
Glad you had a good day amy
Welcome back aussie we missed ya!

Cant remeber how i signed up for amazon-think it was easy though (must have been coz i did it lol!!

My winning streak is continuing..I won.....wait for it........25 nectar points when they swiped my card at the bp garage!! woo-hoo...well,every little helps i spose :-)
OH nephews just been in,started to download something on my pc and put a bloody virus on it, typical nortons just run out so have had to wipe the comp back to yesterday and am now doing a free mcafee scan to see if thats worked. bloody kids ....grrrrrrrrr

Aussieonabudget

MM, the other free antivirus ones that are good are AVG (I use this one) and Avast (my mother is a computing lecturer and uses this one)

Congrats on the winning streak, hope it continues
Jen - does it say in your sig that you won a TV??????

moneymabel

Thanks aussie-ive just downloaded the windows defender-says on this site its supposed to be good-thanks for the other ones though will keep them in mind if this doesnt work. luckily the scan was clear.
Your debt totals looking great!! are you going to have to go back into it to pay your deposit on the flat or is that it?

Aussieonabudget

yeah, part of it we will have to find again for the bond but hoping it won't go up by much. But we will have to pay something like £1200 in October when OH applies for permanent residency so it'll be going back up pretty soon unfortunately! Never mind, all for a good cause. Still gonna try to be debt free by 2009 again though!

moneymabel

I'm sure you will do it Aussie you've done so well this far- only 5 months to go!

Aussieonabudget

I'd be fine if there wasn't stuff that kept getting 'added' to it! And I won't mention the Uni fees for some post grad study I plan to start in September!!! Will have to negotiate if that comes out of 'my' savings or the 'joint' money (actually, hopefully only be travel and accommodation as have applied for work to pay for it so this one may not be too much of a problem!)

jenjade

evening all just got back from my free night out and i spend £1.03 went to pizza hut with a mate and used my £15 voucher then my mate paid a £5 and ii paid the remaining £1.03. went for a drink in a bar my mate paid. i piad for the cinema with my free diet coke tickets and we were to stuffed for popcorn etc!

yes aussie i won a tv from orange lcd 19" samsung it is ment to come tuesday (i will believe it when i see it though)

everyones debt totals are looking fab.

i just need to win or buy a mobile phone now

moneymabel

sounds like a very mse night Jen- glad u had a good night! Might be going to have a look round the car boot later with sis depending on weather. Have got £6 spending money lol and if I don't buy anything Im going to buy lunch at work tomorrow instead ( seeing as I haven't done that for 2 months!)
hope you all have a good day.

jenjade

yeah treat yourself mm. now i have started spending again i don't wanna stop i want to get a phone then i can go back to not spending. i am off to the car boot this morning!