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Getting FIREd up 😀

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  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    edited 20 October 2023 at 12:43PM
    Well now I feel old 🤣!

    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!!!
  • Oof, that's a cruel one. Add a tick for MySpace and remove the one for Fax and you have my answer 😳
  • edinburgher
    edinburgher Posts: 14,079 Forumite
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    Bebo!!  :D
  • themadvix
    themadvix Posts: 9,021 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 1,000 Posts Mortgage-free Glee! Photogenic
    edited 20 October 2023 at 4:05PM
    I'm feeling very young with my use of Instagram 🤣 Am with you on the rest!

    (ETA by use of Instagram, I mean I look at it... I think I can count on one hand how many times I've posted and I have no idea how to do anything fancy with it!)
    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 Hemingway


  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    I've never even heard of Bebo, not sure if that's good or bad 🤷‍♀️🤣? In old, old job we used to send all our comms out by fax (c2006-c2014/5?) until someone new started and said "Why are you still using faxes?" and we all went "Er....🤔" 🤣! 

    Email nowhere near as good for transmitting scribbled notes though 😀😀😀
    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!!!
  • In ~2007 my work ordering was done on carbon copy handwritten sheets we had to fax to suppliers then separate and retain the copy and send the original to accounts by the internal mail😱. 
  • killerpeaty
    killerpeaty Posts: 2,663 Forumite
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    I remember when I was working in a software company we all gathered around the fax machine with the office manager who taught us the old magic of the fax machine.

    Also used bebo and MySpace. I used to be obsessed with... This music based social media whose name I can't remember. Thankfully I was banned, all that cringe content is gone.
  • South_coast
    South_coast Posts: 6,010 Forumite
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    Carbon copies 🤣 The bonkers thing about sending all those faxes was that we used to keep the original document AND the transmission receipt, staple them together and file them away 🤦‍♀️! Filing piles for individual team members were often over a foot tall - what were we thinking??? 

    KP, you can't just tell us half a story like that. We need to know what you did to get banned!
    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!!!
  • Jessy103
    Jessy103 Posts: 2,388 Forumite
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    Was it limewire? Not that I ever used it of course, just a friend of a friend 😅

    Same on the list as you, SC, but I do have an Instagram account for my dogs 😂
    Mortgage Balance as of September 2025 £11,700
    Starting Mortgage Balance (June 2019) £72,000.
    Aiming to be mortgage free by my 40th birthday, June 2026!
  • killerpeaty
    killerpeaty Posts: 2,663 Forumite
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    I think it was imeem? I was uploading music and music videos that I got off limewire and bearshare and contributed to them being sued for copyright infringement. I was like 17 and thought it was completely unwarranted and unfair, obviously lol

    I don't think there was a social media part of limewire? At least not one that I realised! But boy was my dad angry when he found limewire and bearshare on my computer. It wasn't the piracy, it the fact that I kept getting viruses.
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