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There's saving money, and there's being tight: saving money at the expense of other people, or simply for the miserly hell of it.

Tell us about measures that go beyond simple belt tightening into the realms of Mr Scrooge.

(, Thu 23 Oct 2008, 13:58)
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Cultivate a drug habit
Alcholol's a nice legal one. Drink drive and crash your car into a fence, wait for police and loose your licence. Loose your job, girlfriend and get kicked out of your flat. Turn to prostitution and contract aids. Die a slow lingering death through liver failure in hospital.

That'll serve the buggers right for fat fingering in your details on whatever cheap and chatty rev and bens system they bought from a mate in the pub.
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 10:26, 1 reply)
I'm
not entirely sure how one would loose their job. I don't know anyone that wears their job, or their licence come to the think of it.

However, if you have any dealings with councils you will know that they waste money like it was nothing to them, yet at the same time chasing you for debts that don't exist.

My ex was chased by the council for unpaid council tax. She duly phoned and informed them that she had paid, and had receipts to prove it.

More threatening letters. More phone calls and letters with copies of receipts.

Eventually she had to go to court, where of course it was all thrown out due to the evidence she provided.

Couple that with the fact that our street hadn't had it's bins collected for over 3 months and the zealous enforcing of double yellow lines outside our house where you can barely even see the yellow paint in the road any more (nice little trick to catch people who don't live there), and you have the recipe for doing exactly as the OP stated.
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 11:28, closed)
Hah!
"I don't know anyone that wears their job, or their licence come to the think of it."

Excellent :)
(, Tue 28 Oct 2008, 14:13, closed)

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