15-01-2009, 09:17 PM
After watching the US housing bubble burst in 2005 I realised that the same thing was imminent in the UK so I took our small wedding fund out of our high interst savings account and bought gold bullion. My fiance was a little distressed at this but I managed to talk her round (for the first time ever :rock
. Our savings were meagre to say the least.
Last month with a gas bill that was.. well BLATENT THEFT, Christmas only days away, and news that we were about to become parents. I sold the bullion, paid some bills, paid for Christmas and was left with just a little less cash than I'd originally invested.
I'm the only person I know who is actually better off because of the economic crisis. So what next? Well I bought some shares of a failing and hideously expensive camera retail outlet called Jessops for less than a penny, and sold them again on Monday for over 3p.
This is great. Or it would be if I wasn't expecting my next gas bill to be much higher than the last, my electric bill to be a form of contactless rape, and higher taxes for the next 20 years or so. Add to that the fear over a leaked plan from my employer to get rid of around 50,000 of us this year, The cost and practicality of childcare, and of course the impending sense of general doom that seems to dominate every aspect of life on this little world into which I bring a new victim.
It's not all bad... YET!!!
. Our savings were meagre to say the least.Last month with a gas bill that was.. well BLATENT THEFT, Christmas only days away, and news that we were about to become parents. I sold the bullion, paid some bills, paid for Christmas and was left with just a little less cash than I'd originally invested.
I'm the only person I know who is actually better off because of the economic crisis. So what next? Well I bought some shares of a failing and hideously expensive camera retail outlet called Jessops for less than a penny, and sold them again on Monday for over 3p.
This is great. Or it would be if I wasn't expecting my next gas bill to be much higher than the last, my electric bill to be a form of contactless rape, and higher taxes for the next 20 years or so. Add to that the fear over a leaked plan from my employer to get rid of around 50,000 of us this year, The cost and practicality of childcare, and of course the impending sense of general doom that seems to dominate every aspect of life on this little world into which I bring a new victim.
It's not all bad... YET!!!