Your money or your wife ? Is Cesarina the new Martin ?

piglet6

P.S. Have already sent my e-mail to Channel 4 - for what good it will do!! :cool: Sent it after the first week of Cesarina - still waiting for my reply... :rotfl:

Keep throwing those socks, Martin...!!!

Piglet

P.S. I'm sure that your "hidden" post will probably reach more people than Cesarina's prime time telly programme...

Ebany

I actually shouted at the screen last night when it was saying about phone contracts and how you can get the contract cheaper by not having a new phone. It was all going well until they finished up with '...and buy a new phone at the supermarket' :mad: NO!!! Stick with your perfectly good old handset you idiots! If people are that bothered about their phone they would probably want to get one of the ones that costs about £200 which probably winds up costing them more as the extra on their bill for a year would have been less.

Not that people here are likely to be so silly, I just needed to rant about that one little bit.

Overall, they have only taken the easy people to 'fix' - 'Oh, I spend thousands of pounds on designer gear and cars, how can I possibly ever get out of debt?':rolleyes:

lynzpower

What never fails to surprise me is

Chinchilla Mardy-incredulous goes
"do you know how much debt your in"
"yes 37k"
"No your in 40k"

Cue massive shock from contestant OMG! ,I cant believe I owe that much etc- what like 37 isnt a big deal? Madness

I was a bit peeved last night as there was a bit of depth Begging to be explored when wife said they should sell up & move so that there would be childcare and she could work. No exploration whatsover.:wall:

Again, Id love Chessie to come over to our gaff and reduce our debt by even a grand. GO on love, try it. We dont have cars & second hand clothes from asda dont fetch much do they :rolleyes: theyd probably put a flourescent star on my fridge regardless of what it would cost to replace.

I only watch it to feel superior ( to cesearina, not the contestants!)

frenchconnection200

I reckon they pick the likes of the washing machine as they know no one would sell that but it makes them look like they aren't dealing with their debts or sticking to Cessers plan.
I would love to know how in last weeks a bank manager hadn't noticed his wife was managing to go to new York, buy lots of designer gear etc on 20 grand a year. Wouldn't like him to be my bank manager.
They should have pulled the prog when it was apparant the 1st one was just a publicity stunt for the blond bimbo.

skylight

Yes, but the target audience is different to here - its targeting those massive overspenders, and like last night the berks who still think status is everything.

On Martins programme the people were more "normal" (terrible generalisation, I know!) with "average" salaries, whereas these people on this programme really are people with better than average salaries and assuming lifestyles to match.

Telling people like this to change credit card to 0% will simply give them another card to spend on - it wont curb anything. Washing at 30% will mean nothing to them and listing everything in their house to sell (including the washing machine) is showing them that they have a choice at what goes and stays.

Its not perfect by a long shot, and in Martins League Cesserina certainly ain't, but if it helps to show people that curbing their spending is a big part of the problem then surely starting somewhere is better than starting no-where?

This site is much more in depth than a half hour show could ever provide - its more the next step in the anti-debt cycle.

immoral_angeluk

I don't throw socks at the tele anymore after DH shouted at me... now I throw heavy things

mykidsmum_2

I'd never watched it before until last night, what a load of crock! no advice or tips whatsoever!
won't be watching again, would rather spend 1/2 hour on here, I'd get more advice!

right just off to sell my washing machine, cooker, and the kids beds, oh and see which one of our fleet of cars is going to go!:rolleyes:

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mykidsmum_2

oh, and just going to walk into debenhams and ask that they sell my hand knitted balaclavas (its the only thing i can knit!) I'm sure they will. that girl sold her jewelry to the 1st shop she popped in!

halloweenqueen_2

It was worth reading this thread if only to have a mental picture of Martin silently throwing socks at the tv. From watching and listening to his interviews do any of us believe he'd be silent!!
I think a lot of it is to do with dumbing down of tv.My dear old mum always told me people don't like the truth. Martin tells the truth about banks, cards, loans, debts, budgets, I guess that makes a lot of tv people nervous! Maybe they think we can't handle it!

halloweenqueen_2

BTW what dd she reckon they could get for the washing machine? I was too busy listing stuff on ebay for the £1024 challenge to watch!!