Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
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rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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2 degrees= lots of debt from SLC but not as much as if the NHS hadn't funded me for the second one.
Have just spent a year paying back the money my lovely dad lent me- £7K in total (and that is before the loan he's given me for my car, that I am paying him with interest. He really is the Bank of Dad). Plus I have also paid off my overdraft and credit etc.
In total, in a year I have paid back the best part of 10K. I work long hours in the NHS; I may have had no social life but I have also got 4 grand savings and some shiny new Stuff to boot. I am a story of Hope for you all... because to accrue this debt I:
-went drinking a LOT (depressed)
-went shopping a LOT (depressed)
-did a degree that had 45 week years and got a chronic condition so couldn't work on top of degree so got more depressed and also much, much poorer
-lived in Winchester. That is the worst one I think.
All it taught me is that money comes and goes but your experiences will stay with you forever so you can afford to go to Africa if you want to.
(, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 20:21, Reply)
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