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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Debt isn't worth it...I did a Sound Engineering course at Uni, like hundreds of others. I dropped out after 2 years (Music Tech @ Leeds Met, what a joke) Came back to Scotland, started an HND in Audio Engineering (I actually got to use a mixing desk on this course) So, I owe the SLC £15,000 and counting. I worked all the time at Uni / College, didn't have exotic holidays, I've never left the UK for a holiday in my life. I now work in a recording studio, earn £6 p/h as an assitant, work on average, 50-60 hours a week, I survive on Lentils, eat 2x a day, only go out once a month. In short: I live within my means, very much so. I spent soo much money on music gear at Uni, in the past 3 weeks I've sold it all on Ebay, sooo I'm going to go to Australia next year. I've had enough of this country and its lack of propects and the Governments insitance on helping work-shy, lazy, fools. Don't know if Australia will be any better, but I'd rather be earning minimum wage and being treated like a slave over there, than staying in this miserble country much longer.
I don't have any other debts apart from to BankofDad for my clapped out Corsa, but I do have access to £21,000 of Credit Card debt, the Hlaifax decided I should be allowed a limit of £7,500!! As did MBNA, EGG etc etc.
It's just as well I have self control.
(, Sat 25 Nov 2006, 17:09, Reply)
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