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🤣🤣🤣 Love it!Chiglepig said:
I argue strenuously if favour of the dynamic nature of language change and refer to myself as a 'descriptivist, not a prescriptivist', but I think think the actual spelling is 'hypocrite'
I am so glad I'm not alone on this - thanks team 😀Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!3 -
And in other news, One Poll have surpassed themselves with these beauties tonight (the small consolation being that they were at least from different surveys):
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️???Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!6 -
Lol. I love that there are so many things on your diary that suddenly engage a lot of people. So much variety tooSouth_coast said:
🤣🤣🤣 Love it!Chiglepig said:
I argue strenuously if favour of the dynamic nature of language change and refer to myself as a 'descriptivist, not a prescriptivist', but I think think the actual spelling is 'hypocrite'
I am so glad I'm not alone on this - thanks team 😀 2025 decluttering: 5,658 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟2025 use up challenge: 540🥉🥈🥇💎🏆 👑Big kitchen declutter challenge 146/1502025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5002 -
One Poll keep screening me out for everything and it's getting annoying. I'll never cash out at this rate...2025 decluttering: 5,658 🌟🥉🌟💐🏅🏅🌟🥈🏅🌟🏅💐💎🌟🏅🏆🌟🏅🌟🌟2025 use up challenge: 540🥉🥈🥇💎🏆 👑Big kitchen declutter challenge 146/1502025 decluttering goals I Use up Challenge: 🥉365 🥈750 🥇1,000 💎2,000 🏆 3,000 👑 8,000 I 🥉12 🥈26 🥇52 💎 100 🏆 250 👑 5002
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Haha great survey questions and all the better for me thinking they were from the same survey2
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That would have been more interesting! Sadly they managed to spin out a whole survey with questions about underarms 😱!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!1 -
Yes - finally been asked it!!!
(The survey was about my experience of claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last year, so felt a bit guilty putting this at the end 😳 but trying not to let that take the shine off the moment!)Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!11 -
South_coast said:Yes - finally been asked it!!!
(The survey was about my experience of claiming Jobseeker's Allowance last year, so felt a bit guilty putting this at the end 😳 but trying not to let that take the shine off the moment!)Whoop, Whoop!And those questions from One Poll are fantastic!2014 starting mortgage £165,0002015 second charge £20,000 - Jan 2021 paid off in fullCurrent outstanding balance - £115,8563 -
Is it okay that I'm disappointed that these are not from the same survey?! lololSouth_coast said:And in other news, One Poll have surpassed themselves with these beauties tonight (the small consolation being that they were at least from different surveys):
🤷♀️🤷♀️🤷♀️???Rule 7: If you're not changing it, you're choosing it.
MFW 2020: 1 Jan £92903.90 ~ OP £536.80/£500
MFW 2021: 1 Jan £89281.21 ~ OP £404.62/£500
MFW 2022: 1 Jan £85579.20 ~ OPs on hold.2 -
Actually, probably the one thing they didn't ask me was what I thought about whales' and dolphins' underarms 🤣!Mortgage start: £65,495 (March 2016)
Cleared 🧚♀️🧚♀️🧚♀️!!! In 5 years, 1 month and 29 days
Total amount repaid: £72,307.03. £1.10 repaid for every £1.00 borrowed
Finally earning interest instead of paying it!!!2
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