Useful To Know

[moonraker558]

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Qantas one year ago, you would have £49.00 today!

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in AIG one year ago, you would have £33.00 today.

If you had purchased £1,000 of shares in Lehman Brothers one year ago, you would have £0.00 today.

But, if you had purchased £1,000 worth of beer one year ago, drank all the beer, then turned in the aluminium cans for recycling refund, you would have received £214.00...

Based on the above, the best current investment plan is to drink heavily & recycle.

[Hopkirk]

You should be Chancellor

[askyourgran]

I was just about to say that Hopkirk. Well done mooney, how many cans did you drink to work that out.

[Hopkirk]

Knowing my luck the cans would turn out to be steel when I took them back.

[mazie]

what about wine bottles ?

[askyourgran]

Lol the metal theives will have got to them before you Hopkirk.

[Psybbo]

Is that how you lost your shirt?

[commoner]

If you had put £1000 in a Halifax Liquid Gold account.....it would have made you 50 pence profit..little better than under the mattress?