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Once upon a time credit was something that people turned their nose up at. People bought what they could afford and saved for what they coudn’t.
Today we seem to have gone the other way, we are constantly seeing news articles about people living beyond their means and getting into trouble over debt and several TV careers have been created on the back of other peoples troubles.
So why is it then that over the last couple of days the papers have been filled with people complaining about having their credit taken away from them?
Whether you are rich or poor, a good borrower or bad, it is the lenders money and up to them to decide who to lend to. It isn’t as some seem to think a birth right, but a luxury.
If people stopped living beyond their means and started living within them maybe the world would be a better place.
Having a brother in the army who fortunately made it back from his last tour in Afghanistan to be with us at Christmas you can’t help but think of those that didn’t and so when I found this on YouTube I felt I had to post it up.
I know it features Americans, who are probably one of my brothers biggest threats when he goes on tour but if you can look past that and think of those British, American and foreign troops who didn’t or won’t make it for this or any Christmas and remember them.
It is one thing to be ‘thrifty’ but I think it is an entirely different thing when pictures on Sky news make you out to be nothing more than a pack of savage dogs tearing at post-Christmas sales and last seasons left overs.
Then you see on BBC news of three women collapse during sales and you start to wonder what is coming to the world.
I liked the West Midlands Ambulance Service spokesperson comment:
If you are planning to attend and queue in the future, please ensure that you wear suitable clothing
Some people just don’t seem to think these days.
They have a strange affect on people; I recently attended the reception for a good friend of mine Stephen Price. I’m at that age now where I’m getting invited to quite a few weddings, my best mates being next year and it is an expensive experience.
I am not sure if anyone else did this when they were younger but I set out a plan, basically what I thought I would be doing when, I’m behind schedule 
But attending these wedding does make you reflect, I’m 26 at the moment plenty of time and not old by any means but still to have all your friends growing up and starting families definitely has a grounding effect to say the least.
