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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Ba...just the usual really, moved to london with student debt and very quickly realised that the salary which I had been quite chuffed with when it were offered to me (I lived in Sheffield at the time) meant two parts of fuck all in London. Routinely paid my rent one or two months late by cheque which would send me crashing through my overdraft limit and out the other side. Had to borrow another £5k on top of my SLC loans just to live but was still regularly cleaned out by the 18th of the month, resorting to buying sandwiches from the petrol station with my credit card and borrowing my tube fair home off my boss.
But through about two years of really bad switch and cheque behaviour, HSBC never once told me off, they just sat back and reaped the rewards on the fees that I racked up - funny, eh?
(, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 10:40, Reply)
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