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Are you a CAB officer who sent me a letter? If so read this

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  • In_Search_Of_Me
    In_Search_Of_Me Posts: 10,634 Forumite
    helloooooooooooooooooooooooooo...
    Think I caught it just in time
    Thought I'd make a bumping rhyme!
    Has our Martin found the dood
    Who was ever so cunning & shrewd!
    Shop the banks
    We're up in arms!
    Cost they do us lost of harm!
    So come on CAB where are you now?
    We want to show them no way no how!

    Now I aint a poet
    That much is clear
    But I'm gonna be debt free
    Just like my peers!!

    ...sorry couldnt help myself & I know I need to get out more before you say it!
    Nerd no 109 Long haulers supporters DFW #1! Even in the darkest moments, love and hope are always possible.

  • System
    System Posts: 178,377 Community Admin
    10,000 Posts Photogenic Name Dropper
    Bump - all in a good cause of course.
    This is a system account and does not represent a real person. To contact the Forum Team email forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com
  • jessicamb
    jessicamb Posts: 10,446 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    Bumpity bump bump bump
    The early bird gets the worm but the second mouse gets the cheese :cool:
  • PigginSkint
    PigginSkint Posts: 2,706 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    sorry I'm a newbie and I perhaps I am being a bit dim...what's all this 'bump' business about?
    PigginSkint's debt free diary
    DFW Nerd 1049 Amazon Sellers Club member 54
    Total mortgage debt: 30/4/17 £14090.77 (Last payment: September 2021)
    LTSB Loan 30/4/17 £6633.71 (reduction by 48%)
    Total credit cards: 30/4/17 £25971.91 :eek:
    Total non-mortgage debt: 30/4/17 £32876.49 :eek:
  • Actiongirl_2
    Actiongirl_2 Posts: 357 Forumite
    Alleycat wrote:
    How about contacting the CAB Press Office? They could send an email to all the offices in the country to try and find them?


    Yes, but said officer might get in trouble - all advice and appointments are confidential - like the doctors and solicitors.
  • kwisstan
    kwisstan Posts: 44 Forumite
    sorry I'm a newbie and I perhaps I am being a bit dim...what's all this 'bump' business about?

    It moves the message back to the top of the board. as it renews the last post time
    £2 savers club = £52 - spending money for holiday
  • MinnieSpender
    MinnieSpender Posts: 2,975 Forumite
    sorry I'm a newbie and I perhaps I am being a bit dim...what's all this 'bump' business about?

    A bump pushes the thread back to the top of the pile.

    Here's another one... BUMP! :D
    :eek: What if the hokey cokey is what it's all about? :eek:
    Official "Bring back Mark and Lard NOW! or else (please)" Member 16
  • pennylane99
    pennylane99 Posts: 5,783 Forumite
    1,000 Posts Combo Breaker
    there was a Panorama programme a while ago, was this it....

    Marion McDonald's husband Mark's body was found on a railway line in January 2005.

    There was no suicide note but his back pack was stuffed full of bank statements relating a tale of massive loans.

    Mrs Macdonald did not know how much debt Mark owed until he died.

    She has now uncovered the full extent of lending that Mark McDonald's bank, the Royal Bank of Scotland, was prepared to make.

    He had loans, two credit cards and a re-mortgage with the bank. When he died his total indebtedness to the RBS was £120,000.

    Insurance policies meant that the RBS recovered almost £90,000 of the money Mark McDonald owed.

    Initially the bank demanded that the remaining £27,000 of Mark's debt be repaid in full.

    Then, after 15 months, it settled for 17 per cent of the remaining debt.

    When responding to the BBC's request for a statement the RBS said that a letter sent to Marianne McDonald's solicitor which offered a settlement was never received. The letter got lost in the post. Now the RBS has decided to waive all of the debt.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/panorama/5129514.stm?ls
  • bump bump bump

    I remember watching that programme, very sad.
    Official DFW Nerd #148 :D
    Debt level @ highest (May 2004): £15000 :eek: Debt level @ August 2006: £9591.53
    Lightbulb moment May 2006 :idea:
  • PigginSkint
    PigginSkint Posts: 2,706 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture Combo Breaker
    kwisstan wrote:
    It moves the message back to the top of the board. as it renews the last post time

    oh I see! I thought it was something rude... seeing as there were so many declarations of love for Martin!!!:rotfl:
    PigginSkint's debt free diary
    DFW Nerd 1049 Amazon Sellers Club member 54
    Total mortgage debt: 30/4/17 £14090.77 (Last payment: September 2021)
    LTSB Loan 30/4/17 £6633.71 (reduction by 48%)
    Total credit cards: 30/4/17 £25971.91 :eek:
    Total non-mortgage debt: 30/4/17 £32876.49 :eek:
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