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Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:10 pm
by fifilebonbon
Hello everyone![:)] Firstly sorry for my absence but I have been away at mother in laws over half term and then my laptop had to go to hospital as it wasnt very well....anyway it wasnt terminal and is now back and running thank goodness!! Thank the lord we took out a coverplan for such illnesses![:D]

I will need to spend some time reading through the forum to catch up on everyones news but in the meantime my good news is that we had our creditors meeting yesterday and the very lovely Hywel was able to confirm that bar Black Horse who I always knew would be a no, we had a resounding yes. We owe circa £160k and will be paying 24pence in the pound for the next 60 months. Our creditors were HMRC, NatWest, Bank of Scotland, Mint, Halifax and MBNA. So having started to look at our situation back in April last year to finally get to this point is quite a relief. I certainly dont feel as though we are out of the woods yet because having a self employed husband does make one very jittery in this current climate but we are going to keep our heads down and do everything we possibly can to get through the next 5 years to debt freedom.

I'd like to thank Melanie and her brilliant team for all their hard work and support - ours was never going to be a straight forward case but they still got us there and Melanie was fantastic when we had our face to face with her in Cardiff (the woman is unbelievably dedicated and I cannot recommend her and her teams services enough!) I just hope and pray now that we can get through this IVA smoothly and keep Mel's record of no self employed failures in tact!

And most importantly an ENORMOUS THANK YOU to all the lovely wonderful people who spend hours on here responding at all times of the day or night to people like me who are in desperate situations....Jayne, Jan (kallis), Lilly, Vicki, Fergie (I know your a relative newbie but you have joined the ranks of stalwart), moretolife, uptomyneck and so many others. Thank you from the bottom of my heart for your wonderful support and encouragement and I hope now that I can do the same for others!

1 payment down....59 to go....onwards and upwards!!! [;)] Love and hugs to you all....Fi xxxxx

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 5:29 pm
by Skippy
Congratulations! I'm so pleased your IVA was accepted xxx

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:13 pm
by tori
[:D]That's fantastic news FiFi..Congratulations!! Wishing you all the best for your debt free future..take care xx..

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:17 pm
by fifilebonbon
Thanks guys!! Could not have got through the last few months without this place - cant believe the amount of times I have sat at my keyboard staring at the screen through many tears!! I really hope that I can start to be of some use to other people now. It takes such a lot of time to keep up with everything on this very busy forum and I so admire you guys for always being here! Thank you...you are life savers! xxxx

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:27 pm
by kallis3
Fantastic news Fi! I'm so pleased for you. So glad we were all able to help as well.

Keep posting and let us know how you are getting on.

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 6:31 pm
by Lisa2009
Fantastic news, well done to you and well done to Melanie and her team too xxxxxx

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 7:25 pm
by plasticdaft
Its really satisfying to hear of others getting properly on track like this. Even though its complete strangers(and some really are strange!!),that you may never meet,we all appear to have interlinked lives because of a terrible thing like debt!!!

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:34 pm
by moretolife
Hey FiFi...what great news.....and hope you will continue to stay on the forum and keep posting...or start a blog.!!!

I am self employed too and as you say it is a tough climate to be SE...but lets hope the next 5 years see you and hubby prosper.....

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 8:45 pm
by Julie
Brilliant news Fifi - so pleased for you. Just shows what a good IP and their team can do [:)]

Glad the laptop is okay too....phew that must have been a worry [:D]

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 9:56 pm
by fifilebonbon
Thanks guys! I will of course keep posting. xxx

Posted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 11:11 pm
by flumpy dog
ah ms le bon bon-wondered where you been [:D]
awwww youre a real hunny and you deserved this-at last you are free of the slimeys-im really happy for you please keep posting-wouldnt be the same without you luv the flumpy doggy x[:o)]

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 8:36 am
by UpToMyNeck
Hey Fi, well done hun I am really made up for you!!! [:D][:D] Plans are to have a couple of beers tonight so I will have one just for you - congratulations!![:X]

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 1:52 pm
by fifilebonbon
Thanks flumpy and UTMN - you guys are great!!! Cant promise to be as fantastic as you Fergie but will do me best whilst overseeing the urban terrorist - otherwise known as my 2 year old son!! lol! And UTMN - I'll be sharing a beer or something wet and alcoholic with you too - as hubby gets home tonight and we havent seen each other yet since getting the approval on Wednesday so no doubt we will be cracking a few open as well!! Should be a good weekend! Cheers guys!!! :-D Fi xxxxx

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 2:06 pm
by kallis3
Have a fantastic weekend Fi! Enjoy your celebrating.

Posted: Fri Feb 27, 2009 4:34 pm
by flumpy dog
im glad youre not promising to be as good as me cos i think youre BETTER !
aw have a lovely slimey free weekend luv the slime busting flumpy X [:p]