Are You Like Rosie

MSE_Martin

ARE YOU LIKE ROSIE? ITV1's Tonight with Trevor MacDonald are looking for "impoverished middle-class professionals, who are funded by plastic and a valuable house". If you or someone you know is interested, fits the bill, and wants a debt makeover from me. Read this.

More detail about what Tonight want "buy now, pay later - shop-a-holic, live life on plastic, constantly in debt person, who needs help with their finances because they have a bit of a "luxury fever" problem ...... We need a case study who constantly uses their plastic and takes advantage of the 0% credit card deals out there in order to finance their entire life ..... for clothes, holidays, entertainment etc. And we need them to be middle class, impoverished professionals! "

To volunteer yourself

E-mail [email="rosanne.kesner@granadamedia.com"][/email][email="rosanne.kesner@granadamedia.com"]rosanne.kesner@granadamedia.com[/email]

Or phone 020 7316 6484

PLEASE DO NOT REPLY TO THIS IF YOU'RE INTEREST USE THE CONTACT DETAILS JUST ABOVE

bpyoung

These people aren't "impoverished". They're greedy. There are plenty of people who are impoverished in this world - they're generally living on less than $1 a day, suffering from malnutrition, a lack of clean drinking water and easily treatable diseases.

But hey, they don't make very interesting TV, do they?

Joe_Bloggs

I thought you were refering to Rosie Millard. http://property.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14049-1560314,00.html

Many BBC correspondants are paid peanuts take Andrew Marr for example. They have trouble writing for news papers at the same time. I bet Andrew Neil gets round this.

I bet Sir Trevor speaks for less than 30s from an autocue. Surely this program title deserves a rethink.

J_B.

meanmachine_2

Yes poor Rosie Millard.

She tried weally weally hard to sell off one of her many properties last summer, but found the "market was flatter than a mill pond". Maybe because she was greedy and wouldn't drop the asking price? If she had, she would suddenly have been sitting in a bath of cash. Or would that have been too easy?

Stupid woman.

I think a really good idea would be to take Moanie Millard to the Sudan to show her what poverty really is. Aarrrgh!

Eliza252

I agree with the above, people are getting greedy and when it comes down to it, it is self-inflicted - however, its become SO acceptable to live on credit now, and people with disposable credit (I dont even use the word 'income' anymore since its becoming an obsolete term!) are constantly bombarded with the idea that they need an expensive flashy lifestyle to be happy - the right mobile phone/clothing/computor accessory/beauty product, to go out on the town every friday/Sat night, to go on expensive holidays etc etc. I guess you could almost call it peer pressure. There are not enough people thinking outside of the box and its very hard to stand back and think do I really want this or have I just been tricked into thinking I do. I think until living on credit becomes less acceptable people are going to find it very hard to change...

nb. I should know I'm a 'middle class professional' (oo0... what a horrible definition of self) trying not to be taken in by the consumer culture and its v. difficult, and also tiring to have to explain myself to other people all the time - on the shelf behind my computor I have a diary which has A4 sized pictures taken from 'The World from Above' exhibition - there's an aerial shot of a shanty town and then underneath is says 'one billion people lack decent shelter' - it certainly stops me complaining!

curlychic

Hear . . . Hear !! These people have no idea do they. I think it is disgusting !

Catbalu

I was going to volunteer because it sounds exactly like me - but now I'm ashamed

Jacster_2

There's a lot of people out there in this situation.

Being in this situation doesn't make them bad people - it makes them bad money savers.

It's not fair or right to judge.

Rootsie_2

Well I'm tempted to volunteer regardless of what the rest of you think. Yes it also sounds just like me and I'm not necessarily proud of it, but what is the harm in taking up the opportunity to try to sort it all out?

Jacster_2

Rootsie wrote:

Well I'm tempted to volunteer regardless of what the rest of you think. Yes it also sounds just like me and I'm not necessarily proud of it, but what is the harm in taking up the opportunity to try to sort it all out?

Good for you. Go for it!

Smiley_Mum

I just think that it is really sad when some people can't even bring themselves to go out in anything less than designer labels etc. Shows that there is underlying problems that they need to look into but are just burying their head in the sand. I watched Spendaholics a week or so ago on BBC 3 and this woman wouldn't go into such shops as chain store clothing stores, she called them tat shops and wouldn't go out in anything less than Prada or whatever even although she was something like £45k in debt and only earning £19k a year. I just felt sorry for the woman. There is no value in money nowadays. I spoke with a cashier the other day in one of the local shops and after I passed on the info about the MSE website/book etc she told me how the majority of people came into the store using credit cards for tiny amounts, I mean that's fair enough if they spend responsibly on cards etc and keep up with the payments but does anyone use cash anymore?

Top 10 reasons people overspend -

http://www.debtsmart.com/pages/article_over_spend.html