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MSE Poll: How did you fare financially in 2019?

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Former_MSE_Karl
Former_MSE_Karl Posts: 175 Forumite
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Poll started 2 Jan 2020
At the start of the New Year, we wanted to find out if you're financially better off now than you were at the start of January 2019.

Whether you saved money, paid off debt, overspent, borrowed or had a pay rise, tell us how your household finances fared over the past year.
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  • 203846930
    203846930 Posts: 4,708 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Second Anniversary Name Dropper Photogenic
    Define 'shape'
  • Sealate
    Sealate Posts: 25 Forumite
    Fifth Anniversary 10 Posts
    Debts down, savings up?
  • Ectophile
    Ectophile Posts: 7,991 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    duncanthedog wrote: »
    Define 'shape'


    Pear shaped? ;)
    If it sticks, force it.
    If it breaks, well it wasn't working right anyway.
  • Tigsteroonie
    Tigsteroonie Posts: 24,954 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Photogenic
    Darn it, I've moved to a new "age category" on MSE polls :(
    :heartpuls Mrs Marleyboy :heartpuls

    MSE: many of the benefits of a helpful family, without disadvantages like having to compete for the tv remote

    :) Proud Parents to an Aut-some son :)
  • XRAT
    XRAT Posts: 241 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 100 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    It looks like it doesn't pay to be non-binary, the only group to be worse off.
    A third of them are worse off, another third are confused.
  • Owain_Moneysaver
    Owain_Moneysaver Posts: 11,392 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    I may have more money but as everything has gone up in price I'm now poorer than I was.
    A kind word lasts a minute, a skelped erse is sair for a day.
  • AubreyMac
    AubreyMac Posts: 1,723 Forumite
    Ninth Anniversary 1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    I'd say I was the same.


    I had a tiny pay rise but my work also moved offices which requires more of a commute which now costs me £200 a month. Plus eats up an additional 90mins of my day.
  • tara747
    tara747 Posts: 10,238 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper Combo Breaker
    I'm glad to see most people's finances are in better shape than a decade ago - you'd expect that from MSE devotees :)
    Get to 119lbs! 1/2/09: 135.6lbs 1/5/11: 145.8lbs 30/3/13 150lbs 22/2/14 137lbs 2/6/14 128lbs 29/8/14 124lbs 2/6/17 126lbs
    Save £180,000 by 31 Dec 2020! 2011: £54,342 * 2012: £62,200 * 2013: £74,127 * 2014: £84,839 * 2015: £95,207 * 2016: £109,122 * 2017: £121,733 * 2018: £136,565 * 2019: £161,957 * 2020: £197,685
    eBay sales - £4,559.89 Cashback - £2,309.73
  • ronda454
    ronda454 Posts: 12 Forumite
    10 Posts
    debts went down
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