Spendaholics - BBC3 now.

MABLE

There was me fretting over my £788 debt that I want to clear this year.
Sorry for the poor girl but made me feel happier to think my debt was small in comparison to hers. Hopes she manages to get herself back on track.
After all she is young enough to learn from the error of her ways and I wish her good luck.

debtdoctor

I can't believe they told her to sell her house, considering how little they were both earning and the not-so-much-anymore-but-still-rocketing housing market, the house was probably making them £200 a month. To sell it then pay only £50 less a month in rent; you do the math. Sell the car get on a payment scheme, it's not hard! :mad:

GettingThingsDone

Very weird - I got the feeling that there were things that they weren't telling us. .. It didn't add up on so many fronts.

balbs

I come away from this programme with a bad taste in my viewing mouth..

1. Heres someone with 13k in debt and their main advice is to consolidate the credit cards 'and you will pay it all off in three years' - Ok but that on a good credit line is about £400-00 a month - and hers is lousy.

2. She rents a flat on her own say £500 a month (nice looking place) - so thats nearly a grand down already - she commutes up to town from Surrey was it (they could have said Sussex perhaps - Ill be corrected) - so thats got to be another £200 at least - she runs a car - thats got to be £200 a month all in - say £50 a week for food - another £200. council tax utilities etc etc etc - it just doesn't add up and we never really see the details of the budget they set her - especially as one budget line they were proud of was to leave her £100-00 still a month for shoes. She has an income figure of £1900.

3. And then the cheeky girl blags the RSPCA into essentially subbing her for £800 so that one (of 2) of her pooches can have an op as she hasn't bothered (thanks to buying god knows how many shoes) to take out insurance and otherwise it was going to cost her £1200 that she hasnt got.... I might drop a line to the RSPCA about that one...

I admit she's obviously had a bit of a tough life but this programme really doesn't get to grips with her money issues, makes it out as just dead easy with not much sacrifice after the cold turkey week and like other posters I smell a big rat about whats really gone on.

yuk!