Writers, educaters and readers... I nead your help !

elantan

wow mike well done ..are you staying off the hard stuff this weekend lol...i don't think the problem is that you don't know what to write ..i think you may be a tad nervous...if it were me i'd sh*****g myself ..remember you have given some of the most valuable help and support along with martin lynz ss (to name but a few) so please go on and spread your fantastic support and help..and can i get a copy ..p.s don't forget to mention all us wonderful peeps ...good luck

Snaggles

Hurray, well done Mike, I hope it goes ahead, you have given masses of brilliant free advice on here already, so you really deserve something like this. Remember us when you're a rich and famous financial journalist! Love Snaggles xx

ps Hope you didnt have a bad head at work on Saturday!

Mike_St_Helens

Snaggles wrote:

Hurray, well done Mike, I hope it goes ahead, you have given masses of brilliant free advice on here already, so you really deserve something like this. Remember us when you're a rich and famous financial journalist! Love Snaggles xx

ps Hope you didnt have a bad head at work on Saturday!

Oh boy I did... Ive always got a head like a bear in work !

Im starstruk ant Martin bobbin in !!

How are you snaggs?

Biddyrolo

Good for you Mike, you'll be able to make a real difference. x

david_hellier

Mike, you're right about the Echo and indeed many locals/freesheets. Their financial guidence is poor. I would like to see a column in which readers are invited to send in their SOAs and help them tackle overspending. It is, after all, the reason for so much debt.

Mike_St_Helens

david_hellier wrote:

Mike, you're right about the Echo and indeed many locals/freesheets. Their financial guidence is poor. I would like to see a column in which readers are invited to send in their SOAs and help them tackle overspending. It is, after all, the reason for so much debt.

What a great idea... But the problem there is discretion and weather people would like all and sundry printed 250k+ times....

Young people, Q&A and general education on savviness and awareness seems to be the way...

agree ?

Locana

Good one Mike!! how about the risks involved in debt consolidation. There are adverts on all day telling you this is a good idea, without people really thinking about the pitfalls. I hate debt cons, so easy to do, so hard to get out of.

Toto

Wow, Mike that's great... I knew you would be someone to make a difference the very first time we chatted on your very first post.

And well done you, I am so proud of you, most people would be far to busy worrying about their own bankruptcy to even consider other people's issues, but you are using your experience of both sides of the money lending coin to help and educate.

Good luck, just do as Martin and the others have said, I couldn't add anything to that, you will go down a storm I have no doubt

xx

Mike_St_Helens

Locana wrote:

Good one Mike!! how about the risks involved in debt consolidation. There are adverts on all day telling you this is a good idea, without people really thinking about the pitfalls. I hate debt cons, so easy to do, so hard to get out of.

Good.. But would a paper that has many blue chip clients selling these and advertising in the paper agree with my advice that tells them not to ?

Toto

Mike_St_Helens wrote:

Good.. But would a paper that has many blue chip clients selling these and advertising in the paper agree with my advice that tells them not to ?

But surely they will be potentially protected from bad debt, which can only be a good thing for them