Absolutely nothing’s showing in your O.P. but whichever gets me rich fast. I’m fed up of being skint after essentials all the time. I’m running out of excuses as-to why I’m not going on holiday this year or doing this thing or the other with money.

I can see it. Anyway this is it :

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Ideally it would be red but my financial situation at the moment has gotten to the point where I’m just cleaning out debts, paying direct debits, saving and paying for the most urgent essentials and ending up with 21 pence to last me until the next payday. Offline no-one knows that I have no money at the moment (not really) so I keep having to flake out of things that I’m otherwise willing/needing to do so it doesn’t make sense to re-start my life at the moment when I could make an improved one for myself with more cash flow.

Exactly. I shake my head at the news every day when I hear all these stories of people who were once well-paid pharmaceutical managers reduced to eating cornflakes twice a day and not being able to pay for maintenance of their cars (if they drive). Going back in time would be amazing but realistically the average person can’t afford to at the moment.

If you went back to when you were 6 years old, you would have no financial obligations at all though :shrug:

Yeah but I’ve come this far in life and at the moment (inasmuch as we all have all sorts of problems going on at any one time) I’d say that I had no problems if my bread-stack was up. My disposable bank-account figure is appalling and it’s driving me flaming crazy. Had I had to choose either pill in 2018 I’d have chosen to go back to being a 6-year-old with all the knowledge I have now but at this particular point I’d just have to go with the 10 million at this particular point, because I’m pretty fed up. I’d just choose the immediate financial fix out of desperation.

I think the blue pill figure is too high to make the red all that tempting for anyone tbh... realistically you can build any life you want (within reason, not Elon Musk's life) with £10 million cold hard cash.

At my age it would be a ruddy miracle:laugh::laugh:

Comfort’s a key word. What’s the point in having good mental health if you’ve got no money to enjoy your life comfortably with?

depends how old you are too though

But then the red option tempts me. People’s current situations can always change in the blink of an eye but I’m sure we all have regret from the past we’d like to correct. I don’t know. I’m torn.

And how old are you, Soldier Boy? 43, yeah?

I'm Niamh and I'm 44

I think Soldier Boy is early 30's?

Most men of a certain age will reach for the blue pill out of habit :hehe:

No, I know but I just wanted to refer to S.B. directly since you mentioned him.

Is he really only that young?

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Why do you think he's older? [emoji28]

It’s just a feeling I get. He might be down with the funk and relatively pre. mid.-life crisis but I honestly thought he’d be in his early 40s more-so than early 30s. I can’t imagine him being born in 1990.

I’m sure soldier boy is 37

Yeah that sounds familiar actually

Sounds more accurate in Soldier Boy’s case than 32 anyway. I knew he couldn’t be that young.

(I’m sure your body’s oozing in antioxidants, by the way, Soldier Boy. :laugh:)

i have been 37 too