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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Biggest money fuck up? No contest.My biggest fuck up was getting a credit card. At 18 (2001), I wanted to go to the Carling Reading Festival, but didn't have any money. So I came up with the genius plan to get a credit card, pay for the ticket, then cut it up.
I took it with me (fuck up), and bought more beer than anyone should be allowed to buy in one weekend. Worst of all, a lot of it ended up down random people's chins, coming out their noses and going down their shirts, all via a funnel contraption designed to split the drinking men from the drinking boys.
As it turns out, I'm a drinking boy.
The card was at it's limit inside a month.
It was only £500, which is a lot if you don't have £500, and the interest rate was enough to bankrupt Billy Gates. I only just paid it off at the beginning of last year after finally transferring it to a card with a half decent rate.
Length? 4 years.
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Fork Has lost his bash virginity!, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 14:00,
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