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What to do with Kirstie & Phil ?
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To give Sarah Beenie a bit of credit in the early series of her shows she made a point of stating
Do your research
Make a budget and keep to it
She was also very scathing of people who only made a profit because of a rising market, pointing out more often than not they had really lost money as not doing anything would have made them moreHow come property !!!!!! always featured houses that the average FTB had no hope of buying?
Lots of LLL had modest houses, in fact most of the RlRlRl had one modest house or flat and one aspirational home.0 -
She was also very scathing of people who only made a profit because of a rising market, pointing out more often than not they had really lost money as not doing anything would have made them more.
Pity she was unable to follow her own advice on her own place...
Or maybe not, as we are all full of human frailty, and it makes for more interesting viewing if we see others falling victim to their own particular foibles.
As I've said before, 'Property Ladder' subjects were almost certainly chosen by personality profiling to make sure of the human interest arising from people's pig-headedness. In that sense it was deliberate car-crash TV.
Beeny has engineered her own car crash, though whether to make a good programme (or two, or three) is impossible to say. It's all been done on a not-for-profit basis, naturally.;);)0 -
Ooh etching designs onto glass jars.
Who's got the time for this nonsense !?0
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