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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As a student with a weed habitMy worst financial offences were comitted in 1999 when my dealer lived around the corner from a 24-hour Spar shop. I'd go in and buy some chewing gum and get £40 cashback (despite being heavily into my overdraft), and nip round his to buy skunk.
After about 6 months of this, the bank called me in. I didn't go to the branch where I opened the account, but they sat me down and handed me a telephone with my account manager on the other end. She said: "Take out your wallet. Take out your Switch card. Give it to the man sitting opposite you. You have lost your Switch privileges."
Took me about a year to get them back as well.
[edit] last week I got a letter from Honours Student Loans confirming that I have paid them off and no longer owe them anything. I may have it framed.
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emvee cruor deo cruoris, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 10:11,
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