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Debt Story #52

I have been so bewildeerd in the past but now it all makes sense!

Debt Story #50

Always a good job right here. Keep rolling on thrugoh.

Debt Story #48

God help me, I put aside a whole atfenroon to figure this out.

Debt Story #46

my husband is self employed as a taxi driver and had recently been assessed by the inland revenue and found to owe £16,000 (along with around £20,000 other debts) :-( we also have just lost 2 big contracts. We still have 1 small contract which will last another 4 years and guarantee us a smaller income. I work 23 hours a week on a part-time wage. He is considering BCY as an option as all the debts are in his name..would he still be able to trade as a taxi driver/sole trader?

Debt Story #44

I searechd a bunch of sites and this was the best.

Debt Story #42

Fell out of bed feeling down. This has brihegnted my day!

Debt Story #40

I'm on the other side, and would welcome advice or comments. I trusted a local auctioneer with some items (many of the family which I was selling after my mother's death) so that the money could be divided between three of us. There was a very mysterious robbery a few days after the auction - some of my unsold items were stolen, and the auctioneer in question said he was unable to repay his creditors. He promised publicly to do so eventually. This was in October 2010. Each time he has told me he was going to pay me my money (about £450) he has then reneged. Eventually he told me everyone would get their by the end of March. Since then he has stalled - last excuse was because he he was waiting for a new cheque book! Latest email was that cheques would definitely be sent out this Saturday. I won't hold my breath. Do I have any chance of going down the CCJ route? I'm afraid that if I do so I stand even less of a chance of getting my money as it might be deemed too low an amount to bother about. I know it's not a lot of money to most people, but it is to me, plus it involved the sale of sentimental items and I have had to pay my brother and sister out of my own money (I'm on a low pension). I wouldn't feel so bad if his blog wasn't full of arrogant boasting about how well he is doing, how much he is drinking, how good life is to him. I agree with no 37 - much of what I read on here doesn't reflect responsible behaviour, but I don't see how I was responsible for this, as I checked his very elegant website, he's well-known in Norwich, etc, etc. I would welcome comments/advice.

Debt Story #38

I feel in debt to my parents. Lived off them for a long time now. They raised and fed me. Cant wait until the day I get a job and pay them well. Then leave them for good. So fustrating. When the problem is fine, they just find a way to stir it back up into the air so I'm mad again.

Debt Story #36

since i have been young i have been awfull with money, i used to enjoy the luxuries such as the newest trainers and games consoles, i also became a member of a gaming group via pc and made monthly payments to a gaming website, however i never had the money to afford all of this, so i used to borrow money of friends and family ect... however after a while i couldnt py them back and people started wanting there money and became more and more persistant, when i turned eighteen i thought i could solve all my porblems by getting a credit card and using this to pay off the money i owed to everybody however i then had no money to pay for the credit cards so i getting new credit cards to pay off old credit card debts and the debt spiralled out of control, i didnt no what to do and sutpidly turned to the bottle and after a string of incidents thqat shouldnt of happened but did because of alchol i lost my job, i am now out of work and have huge credit card debts, what can i do?