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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Reverse Fuck Up?Few years ago, my mum inherited from a couple of deceased relatives a fair sum which by now is well past the £500,000 mark.
Unfortunately, she kind of refuses to accept the fact that she is loaded and still worries about money. My dad was quitely smug in the knowledge that when he retired, they were set up for life. Sadly, he never made it that far after passing on from an asbestos related cancer (50's wonder material was it? Cheers, fuckers).
Without him, she has kind of blanked off the fact that there is a fortune in the bank.
So I have a mother who works as a lollipop lady, earns over £2000 a month from wages/pensions/investments, lives in a mortgage free house that is worth about £200k but still insists on buying all her clothes from charity shops and (to be totally honest) looks poor.
She's always complaining that she doesn't do much (a big hint that she would like to be taken somewhere - never digs into her fortune for tea and cakes either) but when you suggest she spends some of her fortune on a cruise/trip/holiday, it gets blanked.
Oh well, you never know, may inherit some eventually - bet she outlives me :(
(, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 12:46, Reply)
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