There are as many uses of personal loans as there are people who borrow them and most lenders will be happy to allow you to borrow for whatever purposes you desire. However, there are a couple of general principles that you should apply when deciding how much to borrow, what type of loan to take out, and how long you want to take to repay the loan.
One of the first and most important guidelines in this regard concerns secured loans. Secured loans will be secured over your home and will give the lender a right, in the event that you fail to repay your loan, to sell your home to recover the amount owed. This is a serious event that you will wish to avoid at all costs and by following a few simple principles you should be able to drastically reduce the chance of this occurring.
You should not, as a general rule, secure loans over your home that are going to be used on short term expenditures. While this will mean different things to different people, it is fairly clear that you shouldnt be securing a loan on your home to pay for a holiday. If you were to do this every year, it probably wouldnt take long before all the equity in your home will have been used up on...