"Britain's Biggest Spenders"

Downsizing__for_sanity

Did anyone see "Britain's Biggest Spenders" last night on ITV (I think)?

I was shouting at the tv - couldn't believe the girl who paid to take her mum to New York (what, £3 grand at least?) to tell her she was £80K in debt and paid a fortune to get the lips, botox etc done. And she'd already been in £25k of debt before and went bankrupt to escape it!!
a) HOW on earth do people like that still get credit?
b) It's not like she fell behind due to illness, unplanned baby, etc - she was buying t-shirts for her DOG for goodness sake!
c) Although it does make me feel better about my tiny (by comparison) debts and that I can at least afford to pay them.

Rant over! What would moneysaving would you recommend to this girl?

DFS

Donedoingdebt

And hasn't she ruined her looks with all that bodywork? She looked like 31 going on 50.

lynzpower

I never saw it. I cant watch those programmes so near to bedtime as they give me nightmares lol

I owuld recommend she go and work somewhere like Banglalore or Port Au Prince, and she will soon understand the difference between want and need.

I hope the OR was watching that :rolleyes:

Quasar

I think the only thing that can save her is a brain transplant but that's some hope...

You would think that with all this customer data etc.banks have access to they would have the sense to stop lending to these unfortunate people, but hey, if they lose the money we pay them back in increased charges...

Trip to New York, first class, anyone?

LookingAhead

Donedoingdebt wrote:

And hasn't she ruined her looks with all that bodywork? She looked like 31 going on 50.

My word, is that how old she was..? 31? I agree she looked nearly 50.

I saw the bit where she was saying "I like the punch in the face look" (re: lip work).

Well, I know someone who'll provide that sort of service for free, saving her lots of money....

(Only kidding guys, I'm a pacifist really....!)

themaccas

What about the guy on there who was an ex-personal trainer. I mean did anyone else find he looked really freaky with that fake tan and facial surgery?

LookingAhead

themaccas wrote:

What about the guy on there who was an ex-personal trainer. I mean did anyone else find he looked really freaky with that fake tan and facial surgery?

Was that the guy in the penthouse suite in Manchester? The orange man? With a £5000 Louis Vuitton (or however you spell it...do I look bovvered?) football? I can't say much more than that as I had to switch off after 10 minutes before I threw up.

Molanole

Donedoingdebt wrote:

And hasn't she ruined her looks with all that bodywork? She looked like 31 going on 50.

We weren't sure if it was a man in drag actually

I was wondering just how it would play out when she had to visit court in all her finest, declaring bankruptcy. It made me so angry because we all see the posts of people on here who are genuinely struggling but genuinely don't want to pursue bankruptcy as a route and there she was botoxed to oblivion, buying coats for her rat, sorry, small dog, then telling us she was broke.

Grrrrrrr :mad:

Bagpuss741

I found it quite funny, that these people with all their money had NO taste whatsoever:rotfl:

melancholly

themaccas wrote:

What about the guy on there who was an ex-personal trainer. I mean did anyone else find he looked really freaky with that fake tan and facial surgery?

:rotfl: well exactly!
very medallion man............. but somehow with less class!

it didn't make be angry as such - it just made me pleased with the choices I've made.... i'd sooner be scraping to keep things together than be one of them!!

if i ever see that guy in manchester (which lets face it, is unlikely - i would never be allowed in the places he goes!) i would struggle not to heckle him!

LJD1_2

If that's rich i'll stick with being me!