Die Hard Saver

DIE HARD SAVER

By David Neill

5 March

?10 in: ?10 total.

I was in an electrical shop today, buying batteries for a remote
control, and I took a
wander around the shop. One of the television sets was showing Die
Hard, my
favourite film, and I was amazed by the difference between watching it
on my 14-inch
portable television and watching it on a 32-inch widescreen television
with surround
sound. The cheapest they are selling one of these TV's for is ?500 and
it is now my
goal to buy that television. Unfortunately, my credit rating being what
it is, I can't pay
it up so if I want it, and I do, then I will just have to put by a
tenner a week until I can
afford it.

14 May

?10 in: ?200 total.

Twenty weeks down, thirty to go. I am so sick of waiting but I went
back into the
shop today and had another look at my future television set. It still
looks fantastic.
Getting back home and sitting in front of the portable was really
depressing. Still, it's
a long haul but I know it will be worth it in the end.

21 May

?30 out: ?170 total.

Damn phone bill.

18 June

?100 out: ?110 total.

Some bastard hit my car last night and drove away without leaving his
details. That's
?100 gone on the excess for the insurance. And here was me all happy
because I
managed to put over two hundred pounds away as well.

25 June

?20 out: ?90 total.

My kettle blew up this morning. Nice start to the day. So I had to go
out and buy
myself a new one. It's just one thing after another sometimes.

1 October

?10 in: ?170 total.

Five hundred quid! That's all I want! How can it be so bloody hard to
save up five
hundred quid?

5 November

?10 in: ?220 total.

I met a guy I know today, a van driver, who told me he could get me a
32-inch
widescreen telly for two hundred and fifty quid. I'm meeting him
tonight and with
any luck I'll be able to talk him into taking two hundred and twenty
for it. I know the
guy pretty well, so I don't think it should be a problem.

7 November

Today I watched Die Hard on my brand new 32-inch widescreen surround
sound
television. I enjoyed it so much it was practically a sexual
experience. I think I'll
watch it again tomorrow.

8 November

The police showed up at my door this morning. The plonker who sold me
the telly
was caught stealing, apparently they'd been watching him for weeks, and
he told the
police he'd sold me a telly so they took it away and nicked me.

12 November

?10 in: ?10 total.

I'm back to watching my crappy portable telly, I'm being done for
receiving stolen
goods, and now I've got to save up for a lawyer.
Something tells me I won't be getting one of them cheap.