Christmas spending

• howard mcsweeney1

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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  28 November 2017     11:22336301
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  Quite an eye opener with so many people spending what they can't afford.
  
  
  https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/884684/christmas-shopping-2017-childrens-presents-credit-card-debt
• Captain Haddock

  • Location: Marlinspike Hall
  • Registered: 8 Oct 2012
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  28 November 2017     12:25336302
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  Easy solution. Don't do it.
  
  Nowhere in the Bible does it say 'buy loads of stuff you don't need with money you don't have, to celebrate my birthday'.
  
  

  
  "We are living in very strange times, and they are likely to get a lot stranger before we bottom out"
  Dr. Hunter S Thompson
• Reginald Barrington

  • Location: Dover
  • Registered: 17 Dec 2014
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  28 November 2017     16:51336321
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  Revelation 3:18 maybe
  Arte et Marte
• Guest 2400

  • Registered: 29 Nov 2017
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  30 November 2017     07:04336397
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  Yes, it's too high. Only by changing our consumption ideas, can we consume sensibly to meet the needs of recycle economy.
• Guest 2454

  • Registered: 10 Jan 2018
  • Posts: 7
  6 February 2018     06:30339262
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  Don't do it.
  
  In the Bible does it say 'buy loads of stuff you don't need with money you don't have, to celebrate my birthday.
  Ruth Smith