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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
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