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Crunch your cards

Having trouble in the credit crunch? It’s those credit cards!! I mean it!

It seems that living on credit is a new way of getting through life, exaserbated by the media who constantly tell you that you need more and more to be happy. Well guess what – you don’t!! You need less, and you need to ‘reconnect ‘ with people. It’s good friends and healthy relatiobnships that really fill the hole you feel.

You need to go volunteer, work at a shelter, or a soup kitchen for 3 days,to really see how lucky you are to simply have a roof over your head, and a meal every day.

The reality is, we need to begin living within our means. Playing Bingo online is a small fun activity for me, and I only play with money I am happy to lose. That’s why I like bingo, cos it’s not huge sums, 1p tickets means I can play for an hour or two, for very little.  My credit card means I can run up far more debt and not ‘feel’  it! 

So, crunch your credit cards. Pay them off and cut them up. Draw cash for what you need to pay, and put money away for a rainy day. Like this year. It’ gonna be a rainy year, and probably next year too, so we need to tighten belts and be careful.  Credit cards are for people who don’t know how to creat fulfilling lives with real people in a meaningful way.

Don’t be one of them!

Ridiculous numbers

When is inflation not inflation, and just a silly number?

When you look at Zimbabwe’s numbers I think.  Reading an article this week it stated that “Zimbabwe’s annual inflation rate soared to 11.2 million percent in June” quoted the state media. HOW is that possible? Here we sit in Britain, and we are complaining about 4.6%, and everyone losing their jobs and the state of the economy, and teh credit crunch.  What do those poor Zimbabweans do?

Not only that, but they state that it gained 9 035 045.5 percentage points from the May rate of 2 233 713.4 percent. How does someone actually measure that.

Here is a map of world inflation rates. Note, Zimbabwe is in the +10 range because I don’t think they knew how to depict +11,000,000!

So, when does one intervene in situations like this, isn’t this the reason for the G8 countries (and I think they named the G8 because they wanted to call themselves GR8 really, but knew how naff that would sound…)?

So, if I equate that to Bingo tickets, then today’s 1p would cost £ 22 337.13 in May….and in June would cost
£ 11 268 758.00 per ticket.  That’s if my maths is right – Ouch! I wonder what the bingo bonus payouts would have to be to make that work. The Jackpots would be worth playing perhaps?

Wow, imagine how much you’d have to win to be able to pay for a bingo ticket in June given these numbers!

I’ll stick to my own UK bingo room ,and the  free games and linked games thanks very much, and when inflation hits 6% I’ll remember not to moan so much as others have it FAR worse than we do!