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Thank you for all the kind offers of help. I& #39;ve worried myself wakeful all night with this; I must pay off this overdraft, the interest is crippling me, and the thought of scraping by on a disabled person& #39;s money minus ÂŁ140 has been hanging over me with pure dread. https://twitter.com/KateVasey/status/1297163467934306310">https://twitter.com/KateVasey...
Tbh the worst part has been that if I lent a friend money from this overdraft, which I& #39;ve sometimes had to for a taxi to the hospital or suchlike, either it would cost me money or I& #39;d have to ask them to pay it. I felt like a despicable loan shark, as bad as a bank.
It& #39;s like having your leg stuck in a gin trap. I hate it and I always have; I& #39;ve never had a mortgage or a credit card, never taken out a loan or bought on credit, and only reluctantly asked for an overdraft while I was waiting for my PIP tribunal and basically starving.
As I said, I lay awake thinking of this last night, wrote threads in my head raging about the greed of "ethical" building societies and taxes on the poor; this is such a small amount of money, really, yet it& #39;s the difference between scraping by and sinking for us at the bottom.
It would be such a relief to pay this off, and I& #39;m very grateful for the offers of help and solidarity. Unfortunately, I can& #39;t work out how to post a link to my PayPal. I& #39;m not joking about being tired, and it& #39;s been so long since I logged in to it I can& #39;t make any sense of it.
I& #39;ve only used it to send money before, but Google says that an email address is enough, so here is mine: kate.vasey@gmail.com. Thanks to everyone who DM& #39;d me; I could read but not answer last night on my phone, I can& #39;t see to type on that tiny screen,
And this thread has taken me so long I& #39;m going to have to rest my eyes for an hour before replying. Thanks again for your kindness and solidarity, it means so much.
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