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Ellis in Wellyland

Tuesday, May 08, 2007

Advice you should never follow ...

Remember how people tell yuo to live your life like it might end tomorrow? Well, here's the story of someone who was (wrongly) diagnosed with a terminal illness and lived recklessly for the next twelve months, only to be re-diagnosed with a non-terminal treatment.

He quit his job, ate out every night, drank expensive wines and went on holidays for a whole year - and is facing having to sell his house to make ends meet.

The lesson is - don't live every day as if it were your last, because if it isn't the debt collectors come calling!

3 Comments:

  • Not sure about your moral to that unusual news story. There are many possibles, but a more likely one would be: don't spend money you don't have.

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:44 PM  

  • ha ha, just read your profile, I see you're in banking. In that case: spend, spend, spend then borrow thousands of dollars you don't have and secure Ellis in Wellyland's career!

    By Anonymous Anonymous, at 4:47 PM  

  • I've never lent a dollar in my entire career to anyone who failed to pay it back in 17 years of working for banks - not even once.

    By Blogger Michael, at 10:45 PM  

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