The Observer is looking for case studies for an article

DonnaLFerguson

Hello,
I'm a freelance journalist for the Guardian and the Observer and have been given permission by MSE to post on this forum.

I'm writing an article for the Observer this week on people who have wasted money on New Year resolutions.

I'm looking for case studies - you can find out more here: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/5103596

Please post on that thread to avoid duplication.


Thanks for your time.
Donna

eskbanker

How about "I decided to invest in digital publishing and it lost me £44.2m"?!

fc123

You may get some cases more suited to your article from the debt board as this board is full of sensible savers ( ).






Whilst I could give you a few tales, sadly I couldn't bear the public humiliation of seeing may past financial errors in print accompanied by my picture. Lost about 160k (small business) but worked harder/smarter and dug out of it and ended up in a far better place.


Look forward to reading the article once done.

somethingcorporate

More car crash TV from MSE!

My worst decision was not investing in the works sharesave when the shareprice was very low. It went up about 600% over the 5 years and "cost" me £80k. Still, you can say that about not picking the winning numbers each week!

DonnaLFerguson

Thanks guys - really looking for resolutions rather than just decisions as such.

So something you try to stick to, time and time again, rather than just a single one-off decision.

Hope that's useful.

badger09

beancurd wrote: »

I keep making a resolution to not buy bags of carrots because I always end up throwing out a few at end of life. No matter how hard I try there are always some left. Loose carrots don't help as I tend to buy a bagful, or run out. And don't get me started on parsnips....

Soup?

Archi_Bald

Parsnip soup always gives me wind.

badger09

Archi_Bald wrote: »

Parsnip soup always gives me wind.

Thanks for sharing

veryintrigued

Surely highlighting previous terrible personal financial decisions in the national press is a recipe for disaster for some future personal opportunities?

fc123

veryintrigued wrote: »

Surely highlighting previous terrible personal financial decisions in the national press is a recipe for disaster for some future personal opportunities?

Reading back her list (properly rather than a skim read at lunchtime) it seems to be more of a light hearted ha ha article connected to NY resolutions?
Is that the brief Donna?


I think this could be the wrong place to find the sort of person to fit the article theme.


There must be a ton of people who sign up to a monthly gym membership thinking that they will go regularly and only go once but leave the DD going 'just in case' for months on end.




A 2nd one (but it wasn't a NY resolution) was not investing in asos shares in 2008