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Male/Female - How much? TakeII
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There appears to be no males over 40k in debt.Jan 1st 07 Car loan £4830.46@12% Personal Loan £11,517@8% variable Overdraft £1500 July 2009Halifax-£0Debt free date 14th July 2009 :j0
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I voted. Male with just under 40k of unsecured debt. If it includes mortgages I owe well over £300,000 :eek:Official DFW Nerd Club - Member no. 297 - Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts
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I am female,but as a couple we have now just UNDER 100k! of debts,would of been nice to have moved a bracket from the over 100k to the under 100k,but never mind,at least it's decreasing
Debt at highest £102k :eek:
Lightbulb moment march 2006
Debt free october2017 :j
Finally sleeping easy in my bed :A0 -
It will be under 10k by the end of this month... oh yes... :rolleyes:Proud to have dealt with with my debts
Debt free from 18th March 2013, long may it continue!0 -
Just dropped under £9,500, thanks to this site and the support of everyone on it.Current debt - £16,300
Debt at worst 17/03/2011 - £18,067.62:eek::eek::ANot going anywhere else, ever again :A0 -
NekoZombie wrote: »Looking at the poll, lots more women that men in debt. Scary though seeing as we earn less and work less due to childcare commitments.
It must be down to all of the Gin and Shopping Channels......;)0 -
Yes, darn QVC. I didn't meant to buy that diamonique ring...
dunno what you mean about gin though...BCSC Member 70:j
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I am the same as rayday2, our debt is joint as a couple and currently stands at just under the £12000 mark, thanks to this site is it reducing and not going up.Credit Card 1 - £2900, credit card 2 - £6020 (0%).
Mortgage £84000 - 17 years left without overpayments.
Got to get organised, first credit card 1 £0/£29000 -
There was a news report this week and it reckoned that the average under 25 year old owed approximately 15k - which is pretty scarey!
That sounds about right... my boyfriend is 24 and owes roughly £15,000
We are classing it as "our" debt as we want to buy a house together see my thread:
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=515149
I hope in December I will be in the Female: Less than 10k :rolleyes:0 -
I just voted and went for "female 10-20k in debt" which is true cos i'm on about 11,000 ish and my DH has about 8,000 ish. Not frigthening at all ;-(Melt 7 lbs in May challenge - aim to lose 7 lbs

Starting weight: 150lbs (10st 10lbs / 68kgs):eek:
Current weight: 147.7 lbs (10st 7.7/67 kgs)
Ideal weight: 125lbs ish (8st 13lbs / 57kgs) :j - would love to be 8 stone something!!!
Realistic aim: 132 lbs (9st 6lbs / 60kgs) :mad:0
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