Poll started 23 Oct 07. If you had £5,000 debt on a high street credit card (e.g. Lloyds TSB Classic) at 19.9% APR and only made the minimum monthly repayments (2% of the outstanding balance or £5 - whichever is higher) how long would it take to clear the debt? Please just try and estimate the answer don't start getting a spreadsheet out. Then check the answer after voting on the Minimum Repayments Calculator.

Poll Started 16 Oct 07. Are you a mutual lover?Building Societies are mutual organisations run for the benefit of their members not shareholders. Yet invariably, look at the best buy tables for many financial products and it’s the banks who top them. Does mutuality matter to you? Which is the closest to your view?

If someone lent you £10 and said: "give it me back tomorrow and a pound on top", roughly what Annual Percentage Interest Rate would this be? (don’t use a calculator, go on instinct.)

How low do you go? Imagine you're on holiday in foreign lands known for haggling. You see the most perfect, hand-crafted shawl/chess set/doo-dah. The seller asks for the equivalent of £120; what would your opening haggle be (which should be only a little less than you're willing to pay)?

Poll Started 25 Sep 07 Are you in the closet? When you save money, get a bargain, or cut the cost, do you proudly boast about it to all and sundry, or do you keep quiet, sorting your cash on the side so you can pretend to be carefree about cash? Which of these is closest to your attitude?

Poll Started 18 Sept 07: Who’d you trust: Politicians, the papers or banks? So this week we’ve had the Northern Rock crisis, first the Chief said it was safe, the message was repeated in the newspapers, then the Chancellor joined in. Yet none had an impact until the Govt put money on the table… (more info in the do you trust your bank and what should’ve happened on Friday) blogs. So who do you trust the most out of the following (quite deliberately there no, “none of ‘em” option)?

The civil list, which pays for the Royals to do their official work, costs UK taxpayers £7.9 million a year. On the other hand, the Royal family pay tax on their income, which doesn't just come from the list. Whatever your view, as taxpayers' money contributes, it is a consumer decision, so which of these is closest to your view of what should happen with the Royal family?

Poll Started 4 September 2007. Do you want less tax or more spend? With all the political shenanigans at the moment over tax v spend; for fun I want to test people’s attitudes. Assume the system actually works and changing spending really changes service. You can choose to increase taxes, specifically to go towards four popular areas: health, education, policing and transport (a 1% tax increase roughly increases spending by 2.5%). Alternatively you can cut taxes impacting spending across the board impact (as tax you’d be unlikely to focus spending reductions on the popular areas). Which option would you prefer… for the poll’s sake assume increased or decreased spending actually increases/decreases service!

You’ve just paid for your shopping in a busy supermarket, and by mistake you’re handed an extra £20 note in the change. You only notice as you’re walking out of the store pushing a heavy trolley. Now, be honest about what you’d do – not what you hope you’d do… Which of these is nearest your reaction?

Poll Started: 20 August 2007. Would a £35m lottery win make you happy? Last week, a woman in Scotland won £35 million on the Euro lottery; when asked if this would make her happy, she said “no it’d make me more secure.” Which of the following is the nearest to your view?