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Your Daily Dose Of Debt

by poemsgalore 

Posted: 14 February 2004
Word Count: 141
Summary: I suppose you could say this is a social comment on how we handle our finances in this day and age.


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Your Daily Dose Of Debt

Tired of all those credit cards
and loans that you can get
to help you cope with all your bills?
Your daily dose of debt.

Do you have a store card?
Or did you say "No - sod it!"
Are you sick of people asking
"What's in your wallet?"

When you take the dog out
for a visit to the vet
and he later sends the bill -
that's your daily dose of debt.

Have you planned a holiday
but don't know which is best?
Just stop awhile and think about
your mortgage interest.

Did you take out more insurance
for your personal protection?
It's just one more brown envelope
to add to your collection.

While wading through the junk mail,
how could we forget
that every day the postman brings
our daily dose of debt.






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roovacrag at 13:41 on 14 February 2004  Report this post
Kathleen this was great. Sums up todays society.
Credit cards too easy to handle
not like the old days when we just managed
another TV
another card
more debt.
You summed this up in one.
Well done xx ALICE

Lee Tee Vee at 14:19 on 14 February 2004  Report this post
I love the matter-of-fact style and laid back humour. Wish I had written this.

Lee

miffle at 14:23 on 14 February 2004  Report this post
I thought this very apt Kathleen - 'daily dose of debt' what an apt phrase, I'm glad you repeated it! Brown envelopes (yes, I know the feeling) - I'm beginning to feel as if no-one writes any letters anymore! Wasn't it lovely to get letters (I think I still prefer them to e-mail). Write on, nikki ;-)

NB I think this also speaks about the beauty of simplifying or downshifting life. And it also seems to be hinting (i.e. 'dose') that debt is an addiction or a medicine that we think we need (!?)

olebut at 15:09 on 14 February 2004  Report this post
Kathleen

sums it up well although I wondered if it was misisng a further verse?

but that is probably just me

could be worth sending it to BBC Money box or similar programme, or your local radio station if they have a consumer money programme

brought a wry smile and made my wallet groan

take care

david

poemsgalore at 12:39 on 15 February 2004  Report this post
Very grateful for your comments, written while looking at a waste paper basket full of junk mail and a pen pot full of 'Capital One' pens sent as an encouragement to sign up for their services no doubt. Stangely, my son recieved one of their missals the other day, but no pen, he got sticky address labels instead. Maybe I have all their pens now ;-)

igbit33 at 14:14 on 16 February 2004  Report this post
Poemsgalore,

I'm glad someone saw fit to write about this and so well, I might add.

Debt can be a harsh business and money lenders these days, not much more than con artists.

igbit. xx


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