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Getting FIREd up 😀
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I'm going to have to turn in my MSE stripes - I'm losing my desire for free money 😱😱😱
Well, specifically, I have been invited to a one-hour online interview for £15 and I've not yet snapped up my slot. Plenty of slots available at convenient times, just don't think I can be *rsed!
However, I did put my details forward for the one One Poll are running: £300 (pretty sure that was a typo 🤣) for "No more than 10 minutes" - now that I would show up for 😀!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 -
I'd turn up for the £300 one too! £15 - I can see your reluctance - but I agree in my earlier MSE days I would have gone for it. I think though it is good to value free time - it's the one resource that is not renewable.Achieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/255 -
I think if it was a focus group I would be more enthused, but it's a Zoom call so I would need to be engaged and interactive with them for the whole hour. That's a lot of talking about "healthy food" 😮!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 -
Agree that that’s not enough for an hour’s one to one, so you can keep your MSE stripes! After all, you’re on that MF roll of honour, so how you spend your time is entirely up to you - no creditors involved!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 -
Back to the Sainsbo/Nectar review of the year, I got a voucher for free root beer to celebrate me being the number one purchaser - guess what DD will be drinking this week! (I can't stand the stuff
) 2014 starting mortgage £165,0002015 second charge £20,000 - Jan 2021 paid off in fullCurrent outstanding balance - £115,8565 -
Yeah, not sure I'd want to talk to people for an hour for £15. I'd happily spend an hour completing a survey for that, just not engaging with other humans, would need danger money
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Ahh man, you are living the life!South_coast said:KP, I've just done a survey about ice cream 🍦!
(Actually, I got screened out - BUT IT WAS ABOUT ICE CREAM 🍨🍦🍨🍦!!!)
Also I fell off the survey wagon about 8-9 years ago.4 -
I too abandoned surveysAchieve FIRE/Mortgage Neutrality in 2030
1) MFW Nov 21 £202K now £171.8K Equity 36.37%
2) £2.6K Net savings after CCs 10/10/25
3) Mortgage neutral by 06/30 (AVC £27.9K + Lump Sums DB £4.6K + (25% of SIPP 1.25K) = 34/£127.5K target 26.6% 10/10/25
(If took bigger lump sum = 60.35K or 47.6%)
4) FI Age 60 income target £17.1/30K 57% (if mortgage and debts repaid - need more otherwise) (If bigger lump sum £15.8/30K 52.67%)
5) SIPP £5K updated 10/10/252 -
I need to use this line on my boss, big up my position as the one who has to deal with the general public 🤣!edinburgher said:I'd happily spend an hour completing a survey for that, just not engaging with other humans, would need danger moneyMortgage 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 -
Good lord, I've actually just made it all the way through a NewVista survey without getting screened out or being told I'm using the wrong type of device! That's the first one since 20 November 😮!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!!!7
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