NO more relationships with 'girls next door'!; - after TWO in the 'Priory Street Posse'!

Long term purchases with something to show for them
• Cash advance for loan (£2000 + 2.9% i.e. £59.60)
• Julie – cutlery and condiment set (£20)
• Mail order – a pair of boots £20 (mine had worn out); a
body warmer £15 (extremely well made - and warm); 24
handkerchiefs for £13; 2 £5 belts (I only had two – both
brown – before that) – total £58
• Jewelry (Half price in a jewellers’ sale at Hertford) as
birthday presents for my daughter and my sister for today
– Sunday 22 nd February. £109
• Books of my own / Helen’s to make up three sets as I had
given away loads at Christmas. £101.
• Four multipack black and colour ink; four black ink
cartridges at the ‘old’ pre-pound tumbling price mail order.
Got 200 sheets A4 photo paper for £11.20 and as a
massive give away bargain – TEN boxes of A4 office paper
for well under £1.00 in total! REAL bargains – total
£126.
• TOTAL – approximately £2,474. GRAND TOTAL: £2,801.
CREDIT LIMIT OF £3,000 NEARLY REACHED!
Obviously even in the first week of having this dangerous credit
card, I got very concerned about soon approaching my credit
limit. Unfortunately Damian Allison, my solicitor, turned out to
have recently had bereavement in the family, so I could not
contact him by phone or email. Eventually that first week he
answered my email suggesting he ask Barclaycard and Citi
Cards to actually write off my repayment debt arrangement, by
pointing out that was my job, not his. Eventually last Tuesday
17 th I did in fact write a two page letter to both of these card
companies, quite rightly pointing out that when I exceeded my
credit limit and so incurred all the charges (twice this happened
in a year with Barclaycard) (a) I was very ill with a serious
mental illness (b) my income being in hospital was greatly
reduced. After I c.c.’d these letters to Damian, he thought I no
longer needed his services, and offered to cancel these without
any charge! On Thursday, in fact, I downloaded some standard
letters for getting information about charges from credit card
companies (and the follow ups if a telephone call after I got the
answer did not secure a refund). I changed these surprisingly
short letters to point out that Damian had already posted my
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