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Money in shoe boxes??

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  • Jonbvn
    Jonbvn Posts: 5,562 Forumite
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    vtuauk wrote: »
    :)

    If you had purchased £1000 of Northern Rock shares one year ago it would now be worth £4.95, with HBOS, earlier this week your £1000 would have been worth £16.50, £1000 invested in XL Leisure would now be worth less than £5, but if you bought £1000 worth of Tennents Lager one year ago, drank it all, then took the empty cans to an aluminium re-cycling plant, you would get £214.

    So based on the above statistics the best current investment advice is to drink heavily and re-cycle.

    Nice idea but I think your numbers are suspect!:beer::beer::beer:
    In case you hadn't already worked it out - the entire global financial system is predicated on the assumption that you're an idiot:cool:
  • Nomad25
    Nomad25 Posts: 1,995 Forumite
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    :rotfl: that's because he drank too much lager!
  • nilrem_2
    nilrem_2 Posts: 2,188 Forumite
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    Jonbvn wrote: »
    Nice idea but I think your numbers are suspect!

    Lol I don't think they are actually his numbers or words, I have seen this 'joke' on several different (non financial) forums I belong to from several different people, it seems to be circulating ATM. :)
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