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Payday loan problems

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  • ciscokid
    ciscokid Posts: 200 Forumite
    Blobby8 wrote: »
    I got myself into around £10k of unsecured debt in the nineties through overspending after I had to take a salary drop. I liquified as many assets as possible to reduce the debts and then lived as frugally as possible until I cleared all my debts apart from my mortgage.
    After that I decided I did'nt like being in debt and threw every spare £ at my mortgage, I have never borrowed another penny since then and I never will. If I cant pay for it I dont have it.
    You have significant problems and need to sort yourself out, it is entirely up to you.
    My way will not suit everyone - your way will ruin anyone.

    I don't know what it means to "liquify assets"....can you please elaborate?
  • PsiDOC
    PsiDOC Posts: 354 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Combo Breaker
    Liquify assets = sell everything you can or don't need that is of some value.

    @ OP. Payday loans are simply a rip off. Get rid of the debt ASAP. Pay it off bay any means possible, even if it's a credit card. The worst credit card interest charges are massively less than any short term loan sharks like PayDay Loans.

    Psi
    Near a tree by a river, there's a hole in the ground.
    Where an old man of Aran goes around and around....

  • ciscokid
    ciscokid Posts: 200 Forumite
    So what about when you have no assets?
  • Blobby8_2
    Blobby8_2 Posts: 2,009 Forumite
    You just miss that bit out i.e. go to :-
    "lived as frugally as possible until I cleared all my debts apart from my mortgage."
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