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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 31 December 2008
 
Lenders and borrowers

• AS an only child from a lower-middle-class background up North, it was not considered ladylike to even mention money. Coming to London aged 19, I hadn’t a clue. But I always worked and I got by. I never had a mortgage (seeing it as a millstone) – always renting. I never had investments, stocks and shares and the like. I never had a car (another millstone).
Now at 82, I have a state pension and a small occupational pension (plus a little help from housing benefit) and I get by (sans computer/ mobile phone). I wonder if the advice given by Polonius to his son Laertes in Hamlet: “Nether a borrower nor a lender be” had been universally followed, what the present outcome would have been?
Eileen Earnshaw
Oriel Place, NW3


Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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