on Fighting Over Finance at 03:27 10/11/2008

Sorry to leave such a depressing comment, I'm not really sure why I'm even doing this, to be honest I'd tell a lamp post if it would listen, I confessed all to a really freaked out check out girl at Ralphs earlier, it seems to be the most cathartic thing to do. Well it's onwards and upwards, please all of you be careful out there, you never think that something like this is gonna happen to you. Everyone in the UK is taking their money out of all of the banks, it's a frenzy, the British government guarantees $100,000 of savings if a bank goes under but if that starts to happen there's no way they'd be able to pay everyone back. In the past week the number of people buying household safes has risen by 5000% and people are committing suicide. It's terrible. One of the account holders at the bank in the Isle Of Man where I held my account has set up a website. THIS MESSAGE IS CONTINUED CAUSE I RAN OUT OF SPACE

on Fighting Over Finance at 03:26 10/11/2008

I'm not quite the Meryl Streep that I aspire to be but I'm working bloody hard and I've done some unpaid independant films and I've lost about 10IBs in weight so I'm well on my way. BUT.......Monday of this week I found out about the problems with Iceland, I called my bank and did a transfer out of my account. On Wednesday night when I checked the news in London I found out the bank had gone under and my transfer was never done. I have lost everything. I kept all my savings with that one bank (stupid I know but when I opened the account a year there were no signs of any problems in the market). I cannot legally work here. I have to come up with $7,000 a month to cover my mortgage, health insurance, bills, property tax and household insurance. When these things happen you feel like you want to kill yourself (of course in true Hollywood style I was planning to drive myself off Mulholland Drive), then I got an email from my Aunt in Ireland saying that my cousin had just been diagnosed with cancer and only has weeks to live (she has 3 young kids) and that puts everything into prospective. So for now my dreams are over, I'll probably end up swinging around a pole at Crazy Girls. THIS MESSAGE IS CONTINUED CAUSE I RAN OUT OF SPACE

on Fighting Over Finance at 03:25 10/11/2008

Hi everyone, this is my first post, so here goes..... I'm a Brit, I moved to LA a year ago to study and I just lost everything through the collapse of the Icelandic banks. A bit of background info - my family were very poor, I had to leave school at 17 and start working, I worked as a secretary all day, then I'd walk down to a pizza restaurant and waitress all night, 5 days a week then I'd copy type at the weekends. I worked my guts off and eventually saved enough to put a tiny deposit down and buy a small flat which I renovated and sold a year later for a bit of profit, with that money I invested in another property and so on for about 8 years, taking chances left, right and centre, I worked myself to be the bone to make ends meet and eventually I had a very successful business. So after 10 years I decided to cash my properties in and move to LA to study at drama school. I put all the money I'd made into a savings account (offshore for tax reasons) with one of the Icelandic banks Kaupthing, Singer Friedlander. The interest I earnt from my savings was transferred into $ and over to the US every month. I took out a huge mortgage with a very high interest rate (cause I didn't have good credit) and started taking classes full time and my life has been amazing, I love being in America, I love LA and everyone has been so nice to me. THIS COMMENT IS CONTINUED CAUSE I RAN OUT OF SPACE