MSE Poll: How did you fare financially in 2019?

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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
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    Define 'shape'
  • Sealate
    Sealate Posts: 25 Forumite
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    Debts down, savings up?
  • Ectophile
    Ectophile Posts: 7,330 Forumite
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    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
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    Darn it, I've moved to a new "age category" on MSE polls :(
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  • XRAT
    XRAT Posts: 239 Forumite
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    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: 11,357 Forumite
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    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
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    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
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    I'm glad to see most people's finances are in better shape than a decade ago - you'd expect that from MSE devotees :)
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    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
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  • ronda454
    ronda454 Posts: 12 Forumite
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    debts went down
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