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How bad is our debts?

Hi all,
I been looking on here at peoples debts in general,
A question.....Whats your biggest debt you have ever had? (besides a house mortgage)

Mine was a car loan for £12k
:p
BR on 21st December 2009.. life begins!

Comments

  • Hopeful1
    Hopeful1 Posts: 2,076 Forumite
    My biggest debt / mistake was taking out a loan for what i thought was £7000 only to realise after that it totalled over £13000 by the time the loan interest and PPI + interest had been added on :eek:
    One step at a time ;)
  • vixi66
    vixi66 Posts: 11 Forumite
    Mine at worst was £75k all on unsecured credit cards,i have had about 15 cards all at once all at the limit ,i only earnt £7k a year and that was when i was working part time at sainsburys, everyone wanted to give me store cards, cards of every type over the last 10 years, i then realised major sacrifice was kids off to nan and grandads and payback time at full time, i am now earning £30k a year as i had to do something ! hard work with 2 kids and a husband ! 3 kids really !
    Proud to be dealing with my debts :D
    IVA was the best thing we ever did_party_
    Shopping was my worst addiction:o and hiding the debts was the worst guilt ever
    Hoping to be debt free in 2015 :T
    I have to keep telling myself "I'm not a bad person for having debt":A and nobody is going to come and get me !:eek:
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