Debt pron
Watching 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?
( , Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
Watching 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?
( , Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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Last year the Student Loans Company buggered up my loan
and I didn't get it til quite late.. but also my accommodation people made royal arsery of their direct debit collection system.
This resulted in me suddenly having £1900 with apparently no outgoings. WOO YAY!
So what do you do in this situation??? Save it, knowing you'll have to pay the fees and live? Stick it in a nice high interest account? Budget it wisely over the coming months?
Or buy a sportscar?
One month later I crunched my shiny very fast top spec Honda CRX into a fence, causing too much damage for me to repair. Two weeks later I was suddenly invoiced £2200 accommodation fees to pay in about 14 days or I would murderulated.
Cock. No longer with sportscar, and definitely no longer with over £2000.
Luckily my granny did a dead a few years before and took the initiative of hiding a quarter of a million in overseas investments. This resulted in my mother being able to lend me £2500 to get me out it.
My current debt stands at:
£12500ish to Student Loan
£6000 to my mother
and £2600 to the bank
Making a fairly impressive total of over £21000 debt for a final year student. I haven't been fully in the black for over 4 years :D
( , Fri 24 Nov 2006, 4:49, Reply)
and I didn't get it til quite late.. but also my accommodation people made royal arsery of their direct debit collection system.
This resulted in me suddenly having £1900 with apparently no outgoings. WOO YAY!
So what do you do in this situation??? Save it, knowing you'll have to pay the fees and live? Stick it in a nice high interest account? Budget it wisely over the coming months?
Or buy a sportscar?
One month later I crunched my shiny very fast top spec Honda CRX into a fence, causing too much damage for me to repair. Two weeks later I was suddenly invoiced £2200 accommodation fees to pay in about 14 days or I would murderulated.
Cock. No longer with sportscar, and definitely no longer with over £2000.
Luckily my granny did a dead a few years before and took the initiative of hiding a quarter of a million in overseas investments. This resulted in my mother being able to lend me £2500 to get me out it.
My current debt stands at:
£12500ish to Student Loan
£6000 to my mother
and £2600 to the bank
Making a fairly impressive total of over £21000 debt for a final year student. I haven't been fully in the black for over 4 years :D
( , Fri 24 Nov 2006, 4:49, Reply)
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