A Positive Thread to beat the Negative Talk!

Squibbler

Lets do our bit to beat the negative media and the scaremongers that don't help during these difficult times and could be making the problem worse...


Please post only positive comments!

• Icesave individual customers will be getting their money back one way or another.
• Kaupthing Edge deposits have been saved.
• No UK individual yet can say they have lost a penny of their savings.
• The world governments have started to talk to each other about the crisis.

zzzLazyDaisy

• B&B and A&L were saved before they fell and no savers got hurt
• Ditto Derbyshire BS and Cheshire BS

meanmachine_2

• Sensible banks survive and thrive (HSBC, Barclays). Reckless lenders have fallen by the wayside (B&B, NR)
• It'll all make us borrow less and save more (albeit more safely)

JohnnyJet

When the dust settles we will all be able to afford a nice big house.

nilrem_2

People are doing and saying some damn stupid things as regards money recently, if your cash is in a proper British bank or Building society with the usual guarantees the government are not going to let savers lose out.

If everyone just calmed down, relaxed and left their money as it is we will ride out this storm.

Lokolo

I got past 2 of 3 stages in my job application for my first choice for placement for my year in industry for my degree.

Now just re-do of a test to make sure I didn't cheat online, and an interview!

lectureral

In 1979 we lived 100 miles from 3 Mile Island. I remember my father bought 2 x 4 gallon petrol tanks because we were going to be fried. We still josh him about that.

I remember also the millennium bug - planes were going to fall out of the sky and everything was going to stop working. Before that mad cows were going to cause us all to die lingering deaths.

When I grew up in the 70s my peers and I were convinced that nuclear war would prevent us from celebrating our 21st birthdays.

Life went on in each case and it will now - in a couple of years we will probably be joshing my Dad for withdrawing all his savings from the banks and hiding them in his sock drawer during the great panic of 08.

McKneff

lectureral wrote: »

In 1979 we lived 100 miles from 3 Mile Island. I remember my father bought 2 x 4 gallon petrol tanks because we were going to be fried. We still josh him about that.

I remember also the millennium bug - planes were going to fall out of the sky and everything was going to stop working. Before that mad cows were going to cause us all to die lingering deaths.

When I grew up in the 70s my peers and I were convinced that nuclear war would prevent us from celebrating our 21st birthdays.

Life went on in each case and it will now - in a couple of years we will probably be joshing my Dad for withdrawing all his savings from the banks and hiding them in his sock drawer during the great panic of 08.

yeah, remember all that :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

zzzLazyDaisy

In 1979, when I bought my first house, we had mortgage rationing, and it was really difficult to get a mortgage.

In 1987, as a single parent student, I had to cope with mortgage interest rates going up by about 1% a month, until they hit 15% - and then I had to try and sell my house during the housing crash in the early '90's, because I'd found work elsewhere.

I put money into tech funds in 2000 (!!!) which never recovered.

But hey, I'm still here, older and wiser and doing okay.

When my son said to me last week... 'but Mum, you don't understand what it's like.....' I told him that the only difference is that HIS generation haven't any experience of a downturn, and that in 20 years time, chances are, he will be saying the same thing to his kids.

I suppose there are *some* advantages to getting older

moneywolf

Here's something positive for me anyway.

I am getting married on tuesday to my girlfriend of 15 years & i am very happy.

Will just have to wait to get our cash back to clear the wedding bills, but there was no way we were not getting married even i had to get a second job if we had lost all our money.

So that for me is a positive.

nilrem_2

moneywolf wrote: »

I am getting married on tuesday to my girlfriend of 15 years & i am very happy.

Best wishes to both of you I hope you will be very happy.:beer:




Can I have an invite to the wedding?