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Debt - How much you have?

  • 31-08-2007 1:59pm
    #1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭


    So guys, today i added up how much debt i'm currently in..... and it depressed me! lol But to make me feel slightly better about myself i thought i'd come on here and see how i compare!!! so above is a poll to see how much ya owe out..... kinda just a rough figure but dont including anything massive like your mortgage.

    So Phone, Medical, and Credit Card Bills. Personal loans, cars, money owed to people.

    Hit me :D

    I'm just gone twenty and own about 7,000 :D


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 41,926 ✭✭✭✭_blank_



    I'm just gone twenty and own about 7,000 :D
    I wish I owned seven grand tbh.

    I owe two and ahalf grand on my CC, and another three grand to the bank for a loan.

    No mortgage.

    No car.

    No kids.

    :cool:

    Can anyone offer some financial advise to be though? On how to eradicate my debt?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,083 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    €0. Hope that makes you feel better.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 36,634 ✭✭✭✭Ruu_Old


    Not including mortgage which is feck all. About $100 on the credit card, thats it. Luckily it only has a $500 limit otherwise I'd be in trouble. My Paypal is linked to my bank account and that gets used often enough as well. :(


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,012 ✭✭✭✭Cuddlesworth


    Firsly, there is no poll
    Secondly, there is no spoon
    Thirdly, get a damm job you hippy.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    I probably have a hundred or so on the credit card but once the bill comes in that'll be paid so I don't really count that. Apart from that, my brother owes me €20 and my friend owes me €30 so I'm in the black.


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  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    about 10gs. don't have a house or children. just my trusty banger of a motor and myself.


  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    DesF wrote:
    Can anyone offer some financial advise to be though? On how to eradicate my debt?

    Fake your own death.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Joeface


    Hmmm

    Mortgage 197,000
    Credit Card 650
    ...Will have a new car loan cause i killed may car so around 6000k


    feel better now


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,139 ✭✭✭Orange69


    No mortgage, no kids.. and i own $100k in savings/investments...

    How to eradicate debt? Wow thats a tough one..mmmm.. how about..

    STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DONT HAVE!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,408 ✭✭✭Huggles


    158,200 mortgage


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  • Moderators, Education Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 35,125 Mod ✭✭✭✭AlmightyCushion


    Joeface wrote:
    ...Will have a new car loan cause i killed may car so around 6000k

    That's one expensive car.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,113 ✭✭✭corglass


    i owe??? Including my bank and credit cards and stuff.

    I owe yer ma


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I owe about €8,000, in a loan and some on my Credit Card, but I'm paying a good bit off every month. Should be debt free within a year or so. The thing is, you're always going to be in a little bit of debt. Once you pay off your loans you get a mortgage and then you're in debt for life. I just make sure I pay some off every month, so it's reducing all the time, or else i wake up at night in a cold sweat.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,406 ✭✭✭Pompey Magnus


    I have to pay off €1.98 on my credit card, does that count?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,683 ✭✭✭✭Owen


    Thankfully, no debt at all. I cleared everything in the last year, both credit cards are empty (Although, one always was), and my bikes have been cleared too. I'm about to hop on the merry-go-round with a car again soon though!


  • Hosted Moderators Posts: 16,186 ✭✭✭✭Maple


    Orange69 wrote:
    No mortgage, no kids.. and i own $100k in savings/investments...

    How to eradicate debt? Wow thats a tough one..mmmm.. how about..

    STOP SPENDING MONEY YOU DONT HAVE!

    bite me.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭Undercoverguy


    The poll wouldnt add for some reason lol

    Anyways mine is:

    €4,000 left on a car loan
    €1,000 on the mastercard
    €1,500 Nosejob Bill (Dont ask - but big sporting accident)
    €1000 Quinn Direct Balance for Car Insurance
    €300euro to O2

    Thats it..... I just underguess at €7K lol


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,083 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    DesF wrote:
    Can anyone offer some financial advise to be though? On how to eradicate my debt?

    Eat less and get more exercise. Woops, that was for a different question ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,126 ✭✭✭missmatty


    Got paid today so paid off credit card which included the rest of my car insurance, so that's zero.

    No mortgage.

    No kids.

    1300 in credit union.

    Paying off 4k car loan at the mo, but that's all really.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,905 ✭✭✭Rob_l


    i owe about €450,000 but its cool I never intend paying any of that


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,375 ✭✭✭kmick


    Equity 20k
    Debt 600k

    Total Equity (580)k


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,686 ✭✭✭EdgarAllenPoo


    €218.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 511 ✭✭✭Undercoverguy


    I hate u all and ur savings lol


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 879 ✭✭✭flo8s967qjh0nd


    ZERO

    Ahhhh, you're right, I feel better already :)

    TIP: For those who are in debt (excluding most of those with mortgages), here's a novel idea: stop buying things you can't afford!!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,639 ✭✭✭PeakOutput


    as of now i am in the black.....as of last week i owed 4K but i saved up 8K to cover the debts and my next year in college so i am now 4K in the black.

    also today is my last day in work until next june and im just about to go home.........

    my summer is only about to begin :D


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    Zero zip nada nothing.

    Mike.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,431 ✭✭✭✭Saibh


    in debt just about €20,000

    car loan 5,000
    credit union loan 11,000
    credit card 4,500

    i'm thinking of getting a loan to cover all. never get a credit union loan again forever paying it...

    very hard to get them clear, think i might go for one loan for all any suggestions


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 117 ✭✭jimmychin


    a wise man once said...

    "those who die without any debts haven't lived"


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,012 ✭✭✭✭thebman


    0


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 71,171 ✭✭✭✭L1011


    about 1800 quid to the BOI if you count the interest on the rest of the term.

    Car insurance and tax paid till this time next year = about 1700 quid value I won't be paying monthly till then, so about 100 quid when one cancels the other.

    Equity wise I have 8 grand of car deprecating on me, music and DJing hardware worth just shy of 10k, and a few grand in varying bank accounts.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,584 ✭✭✭✭Creamy Goodness


    i owe...

    €467,000 <- mortage.
    €110 <- credit card.
    €50 <- brother.

    i own atm...

    €700 <- current account

    :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,183 ✭✭✭Fey!


    About €3k on the auld mastercard, and about €144k on the mortgage.

    Don't owe anything on the car, nothing on finance, have an overdraft but not using it, and have enough to clear the credit card.

    So, basically, just the mortgage, which means I also have decent equity. Have a car and some decent camera equipment, all paid for.

    And I'm 31.

    To eradicate debt; if you have several loans, try to consolidate them through whoever is charging you the lowest interest.

    ie; loan 1 = 1000 repaying 100 per month with 12 months left = 1200
    loan 2 = 2500 repaying 150 per month with 20 months left = 3000
    loan 3 = 4000 repaying 250 per month with 18 months left = 4500

    total = 7500 , paying 500 per month, total 8700

    Consolidated, 7500 repaying 450 per month over 18 months = 8100
    Leaving payments at 500 per month over 16 months = 8000

    The above is just to give you a very rough idea of what you could do; shop around with the banks/credit unions for solid figures.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 10,921 ✭✭✭✭Pigman II


    €0.

    Although I do owe a debt of gratitude to my parents for raising such a wonderful son.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,426 ✭✭✭Roar


    Im not in any debt at all, well barring the usual monthly bills for rent, sky, internet, phone, gas, elec, health insurance. Should be buying a car shortly so i'll be in debt then i suppose, but until then im debt free..


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,906 ✭✭✭Joeface


    actually this reminds me of how i was actually Debt free at the start of the year

    No loans
    No Credit Card over draw
    No Mortgage
    10k in the bank

    had come form debts of about 16k to been +10 and then bought a house and then wrote of me car


    yeah not a good third quarter to the year


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,001 ✭✭✭✭Flukey


    No kids. No car. No mortgage. A few quid on the credit card, which I'll pay off next week. Guys, we are lucky people. Get out your credit cards and click on my link in my signature and help me to help others who do have real problems. Thanks.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 23 Rexelac


    Just about 2 grand left on a credit union loan


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,047 ✭✭✭bill_ashmount


    About 1/4 million :(
    (including mortgage)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭Mrs. MacGyver


    Never been in debt ...ever. :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 27,644 ✭✭✭✭nesf


    Not including the mortgage, I owe 23 euro on my credit card...


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 782 ✭✭✭gibo_ie


    just over 1.3m owed on three mortgages (dont ask) but apart from this im pretty much in the black for a few years.. :)


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭Binomate


    I owe nothing, and I plan to keep it that way.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,010 ✭✭✭besty


    Circa €7k


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,277 ✭✭✭✭Rb


    Binomate wrote:
    I owe nothing, and I plan to keep it that way.
    Waiting 'til your parents die to inherit a house is not cool.

    Desf: Get a loan to payoff the credit card and then bin the CC, the repayments will be cheaper.

    I owe €1100 on my credit card, but I have about €3K disposable cash, ~€500 owed to me from a pension refund, about €150 personal debts so I'm not in bad position.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 88,972 ✭✭✭✭mike65


    jimmychin wrote:
    a wise man once said...

    "those who die without any debts haven't lived"

    A wiser man said "Neither a borrower nor a lender be"

    Mike.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,376 ✭✭✭✭rossie1977


    €4000 on CC but it was worth it, saw some great cities :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,854 ✭✭✭zuutroy


    I talked to Mike at Picture. Now instead of paying 1000 a month for 5 years, I'm paying 500 a month until Dublin is on the West coast of Ireland. They're wonderful people.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,083 ✭✭✭✭Stark


    rb_ie wrote:
    Waiting 'til your parents die to inherit a house is not cool.

    You need to be proactive and get poisoning them now, instead of sitting around on your fat ass ;)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,187 ✭✭✭Mrs_Doyle


    I have a graduate overdraft of a Grand,and that's it. That's not so bad really :)


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 26,061 ✭✭✭✭Terry


    I owe my cousin twenty quid.


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