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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Not me, but IanIan was my housemate at uni.
Ian loved going out on the razzle. So much so, he regularly spent up before grant/loan cheques could come through.
So, it's a Wednesday night, and Ian's finally ran out of money after spending about 3 days eating supernoodles on toast (both Tesco value - meal price about 15p).
He's desperate. The cupboard is empty. So, despite me and my friends being similarly poor, we decided to have a whip round for him on the proviso that "you MUST buy PROPER food".
We managed to scrape together a fiver in loose change, and gave it to him.
Off he trots down to the Tesco on Ecclesall Road (Sheffield Student Haven) and promptly returns with...
1 loaf of bread (good start)
1 bottle of tomato sauce (erm...)
1 tub of Tesco value marg (ok)
1 a bar of chocolate (hang on...)
1 four-pack of CARLSBERG LAGER (git).
That had to last him the week until loan money came through. So to punish him for his idiocy, my mate H nicked his chocolate and me and housemate Kev nicked his beer - so somehow, he survived, for a week, on a loaf of bread.
Legend.
(, Fri 24 Nov 2006, 20:36, Reply)
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