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2025 Mortgage-Free Wannabes
MFW 2025 - The annual challenge for everyone who would like to track their mortgage overpayments, mortgage payments, or even house-related savings. Feel free to join any time throughout the year. A very warm welcome to the Mortgage Free Wannabe 2025 thread! <3 Over the last few years, this challenge has been providing…
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2025 - No Craft Spending - We WILL bust my stash and make pretty things!!!!!
Another year and yet again another vow not to spend anything on craft supplies until I have used up everything I have. In all honesty I could open a shop and craft everyday and I would never be able to use all my supplies in my lifetime!!! I was really good last year and hope to be just as good this year too. Who needs to…
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The Mortgage Free in Three - Take 7 challenge (MFiT-T7)
A three-year challenge for all of those who are want to pay down their mortgage (or save for house-related expenses) over a longer time period than MFW. First of all, a huge thank you to trix-a-belle who ran the 4 and 5 iterations of this challenge, inspiring many of us to stay on track (and becoming mortgage-free…
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£2 savers club 2025
Welcome everyone to the £2 savers club for 2025. As always, the aim is to collect every £2 coin you can lay your hands on! It is entirely up to you whether you want to: A) Save for a particular reason e.g. to pay the car insurance, to pay for a family holiday or to buy birthday presents throughout the year, B)Save until…
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The Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for July & 2025 :)
Welcome to the Cutting Down Alcohol challenge for the month of June and for 2025! This challenge is all about helping people cut down or even give up on their alcohol consumption, mainly for health reasons, but it can also save a lot of money, because the cost of buying alcohol really mounts up over time and sometimes you…
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2025 DECLUTTERING CAMPAIGN MrsSD - The Joy of Decluttering
To use Guineapigsqueaks/Sa1sysoo words “A new thread for declutterbugs in (2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024) 2025 !" My 2024 was another washout on the decluttering & decorating fronts. That is what happens when I don’t plan ahead 😔 Neither DH nor I have managed to summon up any enthusiasm for anything…
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2025 Fashion On The Ration Challenge
(The Fashion On The Ration Challenge is about restraining our shopping impulses and buying the clothing we need as well as what we want. As @Laura_Elsewhere said "If this group is about anything, it's about understanding how we buy and what we buy and when we buy...". We use the original, 1942, clothing rations.) ---------…
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Fiver Friday Challenge 2025
Hello all, I've previously taken part in the 365 1p challenge but due to a change in work circumstances I won't be able to participate in 2025. Instead I'm going to try Fiver Friday where I'll attempt to put away £5 every Friday into a savings account. Should mean I have £260 by the end of 2025. I couldn't see a thread…
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25 for 2025
It's that time again, as we face the end of one year and embark on a new. So if you're up for a challenge, feel free to join in. You'll know how this goes if you've done any of the previous years, but for newbies the idea is you have a list of 25 goals that you do 25 times during the year or just a list of 25 goals to hit…
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2025 Frugal Living Challenge
Welcome to the all new 2025 Frugal Living Challenge Challenge yourself to live a frugal lifestyle so you can afford the freedom to enjoy life. This is about household budgeting, simply living and being creative with your money. Frugality can be a fabulous lifestyle choice for debtbusting, boosting savings or investing in…
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Make £2025 in 2025
This challenge is for noting down all money you have made in 2025 . Ways you can make your £2025 are: Anything made at the end of 2024 needs to go in 2024 pot. SURVEYS WINS EBAY FB SELLING GROUPS OVERTIME SHARE DIVIDEND INTEREST INTEREST FROM BANK ACCOUNTS QUIDCO CASHBACK FREEBIES (VALUE OF) TOPCASHBACK MATCHED BETTING…
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Payment a Day - Chapter 2025
Small Payments. BIG Impact. Making a small (or large) Payment a Day (PAD) - or whenever your budget allows - towards debts or savings all adds up really quickly! And can change your financial future... Hey everyone, Welcome to the Payment A Day - Chapter 2025 challenge! (this will start from 1 January 2025) We've decided…
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Pay off all your debts by Christmas 2025!
Welcome to Pay ALL Your Debt Off By Xmas 2025 Firstly I would like to welcome all new and existing members from last years thread (New numbers will be allocated for 2025). Thank you for last year! Anyone is welcome to join this challenge and it is NEVER too late. There is also no amount of money too small or too large that…
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2025 - 52 Week Envelope Saving Challenge
Save £1378 in 2025! Welcome to the '2025' 52 week envelope savings challenge! This challenge ran the last couple of years and I have been asked to set it up again for 2025. It can really boost your savings pots and help with paying for Christmas, or a family holiday...anything you like really! It can be done wither with…
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Saving for Christmas 2025 - £1 a day
The Aim: To save a £1 a day from 1st December 2024 to 30th November 2025. How you save your £1 doesn't really matter, whether it be a £1 in a tin, an on-line account or anywhere else that suits you. 🎄 Getting ready for Christmas 2025 - save £1 a day challenge 🎄 Also, I just want to say, you don't have to save £1 a day, do…
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Sealed Pot Challenge ~ 18
PLEASE READ THROUGH THE RULES AND THE CHANGES FROM NOW ON! A very warm welcome to another Sealed Pot Challenge, our 18th! Due pto the Cost Of Living, I suggest we all save in the best way possible for each of us: if some still prefer to stick to cash, then please do so. Those wishing to use debit cards, or save via the…
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The Save £12k in 2025 challenge
I give details below of the savings challenge I have been running this year and will continue to run next year with the help of @Suffolk_lass This is the new Challenge thread for savers in 2025. The aim is to get more people saving throughout the year and this thread gives a space for people to record their progress. The…
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The 365 Day 1p Challenge 2025
This challenge has been running for a number of years and is so popular I have agreed to run it again in 2025. If you wish to join please post on this thread and I will allocate you a number which should be quoted when you update on your progress. You can do this either using cash in a jar or virtually by transferring to a…
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Make Do, Mend & Minimise in 2025 (and 2024)
With the cost of living showing little sign of easing soon, I thought I'd start a new thread for this. I'm sure many of us are trying to be as environmentally friendly as we can be as well as stretching our budgets as far as we can. I'm putting together a To Do list towards this end and will publish any achievements as and…
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Not dropping Santa down the chimney!: 2025 Santa, Shoebox & Life Chit,Chat,Chunter! ALL welcome....
Welcome to the shiny new thread which has a slightly different title and I have just updated the date! Now 2025 Santa's Challenge was set up by Mum2one some years ago but sadly she hasn't posted on this forum for a couple of years, so now we are on our own. We remember her, her Mum and daughter with fondness and hope that…