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I received a statement today in the post from the Students Loan Company showing how much I still owe for the privilege of attending university. Now I wont get into the argument about whether students should be paying for their education as that has been widely reported in the past, instead I will focus on the issue of whether students have been misled.
A new year brings a new opportunity to budget and that’s just what I have been doing. This year it’s been easier for me to set a budget as I tracked my spending in 2007 against the budget I had set at the beginning of the year so I had a good baseline to start from. However it looks like inflation is going to drive many of my costs up in 2008 adding a lot of uncertainty into my figures.
I was clearing the spare room today trying to find space for all my new Christmas presents, throwing everything I no longer wanted into bags ready for the charity shop. Whenever I do this I always debate in my head whether I should sell some of the stuff on eBay, but the charity shop always wins as I am too lazy to list everything on eBay. So with my renewed motivation for all things money making this time I decided to give eBay a go.
It’s been over 6 months since I last wrote on this blog so I don’t blame you for asking ‘what happened?’. I guess the simple answer is that I lost motivation but it’s far harder to explain why, although I will try by describing the story so far (and where I go from here).
They always say the first step in overcoming your addiction is to admit the fact that you are addicted so here I am admitting to the world that I am addicted to gadgets. However I have no need to overcome this addiction because one day I’ll be a millionaire, well that’s good in principle but as it stands today today I am not a millionaire and therefore do not have plenty of money to satisfy my addiction. Read on to find out what I purchased this time…
Nothing as I didn't really save myself any money, just got more for my money
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