Spendaholics programme

Magentasue

buses7675 wrote:

That is true about it being an addication, as someone who has never smoked/drunk, I don't suppose I can really relate to it properley

I suppose really we need to attempt to improve the education of children in schools, on both health (so they see the harm smoking does), but also in budgeting (been mentioned many times in this forum), so that by the time they leave school, they hopefully, will see that smoking really does affect your health and your wallet!

Cheers

Steve

There is a programme of PHSE that includes subjects like smoking, alcohol, drugs, contraception etc. but it doesn't get done very well sometimes and there's that major problem that teenagers don't like to be told what to do.

Most of the kids I work with smoke as do their parents. I was really shocked the first time I saw a mother hand her thirteen year old his cigarettes but now I'm used to it.

elona

That is scary! I cannot imagine watching my 19 or 16 year old smoking - never mind encouraging it!

buses7675

Hi All,

They has PHSE lessons when I was in school (think they first ones we had were in year 6, way back in 1992!), but these were taught by the normal teachers, not a professional. Similar lessons, under a different name continued in secondary school (I remember an experiment in science in year 7 (around 1993/1994) when the teacher assembeled some aparatus to work like a human lung in a sense, then lit a cigarette which was attatched to the aparatus (there was an extraction fan on this, so all the fumes went into the aparatus, then away!), and it showed, to some extent the damage just one did.

I suppose a lot of it is peer pressure, and the bizzare idea that they feel it is cool to smoke. In the shop I work at btw, loads of kids attempt to buy cigarettes and get turned down by us all the time, but its shocking how many of these get them by other means anyway, as you see them outside the shop.

At our shop too, and we aren't expensive, the cheapest rubbish cigarettes are £3.83 for 20, most expensive are £5.05 IIRC.

Bit off topic this I suppose, but hopefully a valid spin-off from the original point!

Cheers

Steve

squeaky

Edit by your Board Guide:

OK... this is turning into a smoking thread which is probably better suited to the Health Board than here. The topic is The Spendaholics Program please.

By all means would interested parties agree to "meet there" and carry on

HappySad

I agree with letting others prop up the economy.

I have also been watching Spendaholicas and have also agreed with others that this program is rubbish!!!

The spending advice do have holes in them. I am doing a counselling course and I find the counsellor/lifecoarch person in Spendaholic program completely bad. He does not listen to what the spender is saying and he also comes up with his own version of why the person is spending a lot without checking with the spender to see if he is right. AS a student counsellor I now that this is completely wrong. The counsellor would never hold him/herself up as the person who knows all the answers; but will instead work with the client to help them to find out their own reasons for doing things.

I found the BBC program " Your Money of your life" fantastic with Alvin Hall. His recent book is also good.

Like others I feel that Martin should have his own weekly program on BBC or ITV about saving money and getting out of debt.

HappySad

I completely agree with your comments about spendholics. The pop psychology block is completely crap with his made up ideas about why someone is spending too much. Even when the person says to him that they don't agree with his reasons he does not listern. I have been studing counselling for two years now and I now know how wrong his methods are. AS you say.. the "large" woman is OK.

HappySad

Eliza252 wrote:

i'm not sure that any TV channel is ever going to broadcast a sensible money saving programme for normal people - I mean how annoyed would the companies who pay to advertise in the breaks be, if prior to the ads you've just told them for a whole half an hour not to sign up to the fee paying debt management service or the consolidation loan offer or the zingy new credit card or the expensive cleaning product or the flashy ready meals or the sparkly new mobile phone, I could go oon and onn on and on! Car Crash TV doesnt reflect real people and so it will never help people who dont have two hundred pairs of shoes but will be misled by TV advertisements!
ok, ok so there's the BBC, without the ads, but they have a piece of the ad pie somewhere dont worry!
I think we should all relinquish our TV's and go back to radio! - where lets face it, ads are much less effective (not that I havent got my fingers crossed for the new programme Martin - hee hee!)

YOu have a good point here. :rotfl:

moggins

I haven't seen the Spendaholics programme, when is it on?

BTW Alvins book "What Not To Spend" is on sale in The Works for £3.99.

mrsmab59

moggins wrote:

I haven't seen the Spendaholics programme, when is it on?

BTW Alvins book "What Not To Spend" is on sale in The Works for £3.99.

Spendaholics is on Thursdays at 9pm on BBC3

crana999

buses7675 wrote:

Many of my friends, even those who lived at home like me, had the max student loan each year, yet finished each semester with maxed out overdrafts! Not surpisringly, these were the ones who went out several times a week to the pub!

Um, no they didn't, as you can't get the maximum student loan if you live with your parents. The maximum is for people from low income families living away from home in London.