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What is your total credit limit ?

Just being curious..

What's the total credit limit of all your cards?

Mine's is now £117K, but only using £37k just now and all on 0%..
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  • mary
    mary Posts: 1,585 Forumite
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    Just being curious..

    What's the total credit limit of all your cards?

    Mine's is now £117K, but only using £37k just now and all on 0%..

    Might I enquire why you have £80K unused on credit cards, or are you planning a good Xmas present for someone?    If not, why not cancel some of the cards
  • deemy2004
    deemy2004 Posts: 6,201 Forumite
    Total from experian excluding all settled cards, i.e. cards that I have shut down is £48,700

    THOUGH this includes about £9k on cards that I did not know still existed, so have to chase them up to shut them down.

    Additionally about £9l has to show through from new cards. so roughly the true total is right at about £49k.

    Stoozed total is about £29k, and the only reason its so below the £49k limit is because of the £15k egg waiting for the anniversary when it will likely jump towards 44k against a 49k limit.
  • Might I enquire why you have £80K unused on credit cards, or are you planning a good Xmas present for someone? If not, why not cancel some of the cards

    Perhaps, I just expect some of them repeat their 0%offers, i.e. I have £10k limit on my smile card and they repeated their 0% offer once last year. Also some £15k cahoot, they did some cashback last year..
  • Reaper
    Reaper Posts: 7,332 Forumite
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    (Other than Egg) I have never been very convinced by the view you should hold on to cards in the hope of repeat offers. I'd have thought it better to cancel. After 6 months most consider you a new customer again and you can get new customer offers which are much better than hanging around on the off chance of a repeat. Not only that but when you phone up to cancel you sometimes get offered an incentive to stay.

    Or have people found repeat offers better than the originals?

    EDIT: To answer your original question £76,000 with just over £53,000 stoozed.
  • £71,900 with £49,800 stoozed.
    Mortgage Feb 2001 - £129,000
    Mortgage July 2007 - £0
    Original Mortgage Termination Date - Nov 2018
    Mortgage Interest saved - £63790.60
    ISA Profit since Jan 1st 2015 - 98.2% (updated 1 Dec 2020)
  • paulcdb
    paulcdb Posts: 160 Forumite
    Anyone wanna lend us a tenner? :P
  • Me 32k Mr Smartsaver 85k  8) Have 83K stoozed and 15k waiting for anniverary on EGG, but need to pay back lots very soon... soooo watch this space to see how it goes  ::)
  • £71000 jointly
  • Anyone wanna lend us a tenner? :P
    Erm. Go on then. 19.9% APR sound ok ??

    ;D
    Mortgage Feb 2001 - £129,000
    Mortgage July 2007 - £0
    Original Mortgage Termination Date - Nov 2018
    Mortgage Interest saved - £63790.60
    ISA Profit since Jan 1st 2015 - 98.2% (updated 1 Dec 2020)
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