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Real stories about mortgages, gathered to help you recognise the trade-offs, avoid familiar mistakes, and make a wiser next choice.
There was this couple next door, dinner parties, always had people over. I think we just wanted to feel like we were at that level. The kitchen we had was fine. Gas hob, a bit dated, nothing wrong with it.
I look at that island sometimes. I don't know. It's a nice island.
This was the eighties, early nineties maybe. I had a building society passbook somewhere, never used it. Just kept topping up the current account because that's where the money already was. Easier. The balance looked fine on paper.
Money sitting still isn't safe. I understand that now in a way I didn't then, or maybe didn't want to.