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Well done on all your free cash, it’s really adding up! You’ve made me look at surveys in a whole new light!Aiming to be mortgage free in 3 years June 2023.
May 2020 - £63,493
Jan 2021 - £56,145
April 2022 - £44,7503 -
Thanks TnT 😀 It's crazy, I only used to do Prolific but have picked up a couple more in view of approaching broke-ness and they're adding up (although I think I may be drawing my pension by the time I get to the £50 cashout on YouGov 😮😮😮!)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!!!4 -
YouGov is a biennial event I reckon... but at least they don’t screen you out and it’sa decent amount by the end!Mortgage free 16/06/2023! £132,500 cleared in 11 years, 3 months and 7 days
'Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.' Ernest Hemingway4 -
Ooh, before retirement then 🤣! They've sent me another this morning. Looking at it, I need 5000 points to claim £50, making each point worth 1p - so the 450 points I've got so far is actually £4.50, which makes me feel a lot further on than I did! It's just a huge figure to have to get to before you can take anything out of it!
Woke up a bit earlier this morning (not intentionally!), so have done a couple of Qmee for 44p so far 😀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!!!4 -
BF was up early banging about before going off to play golf, so have done some Qmee for £1.01 and also another YouGov. Currently gearing myself up to go for a walk round his village (sounds lame, but it's a big village honest!) Not managed a walk since the one that almost finished me off at the beginning of June (work news put paid to my motivation after that positive start), but I have GOT to do something about this wobbly belly 😮😮😮!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!!!5 -
Morning SC! I gave up on yougov in the end, I just never seemed to get anywhere with it! Sorry if you already do, but a good one I use is Panelbase.net it has lots of regular surveys and cash out is a tenner.
Enjoy your walk! 😀Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!6 -
Thanks Jessy 😀 Will give Panelbase a looksie
Walk done. Long, thin figure of 8 round the village. Plenty of opportunities to bail out and cut it short, but pleased to report that I did my full planned route. 3.3 miles according to Google maps on my phone, but it's cut off a corner so I'm claiming 3.5 🤣! SO much flatter here than round my place, I did wonder as I was going round whether I could drive somewhere a bit flatter and then go for a walk instead of being put off by the hills at home, but that seems a bit counter-productive....😐 Will ponder
Breakfast also done (final day of food diary today). Now off for a long luxurious shower without BF moaning about how long I'm in there 😀😀😀
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!!!5 -
The loyalty points soon add up. XDFW (08/08) £64,346.53 Gone (02/19)
MFW (08/08) £118k Gone (09/23)5 -
I had a luxurious shower the other day with coconut shower gel, I got in and it was so nice I was like 'This is my life now, I'm going to live in this shower!' 😂Mortgage Balance as of July 2025 £14,900.
Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!4 -
You must be related to my kids Jessy 😂MFW 67 - Finally mortgage free! 💙😁5
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