youthmoney

Sorry—no chance. That’s the response to anyone trying to pay for DVDs or CDs in Zavvi with a gift voucher or card.
Though the high street record store went bust on Christmas Eve, it is still trading. But those holding vouchers are creditors, not customers.
That leaves young people who received vouchers as gifts holding worthless pieces [...]

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Are young men really prone to spending small fortunes on expensive trainers? 
No. 
Are young people quick to adopt internet and phone banking? 
Not so you’d notice.
This, and more, is according to a fascinating set of profiles of spending, broken down into age groups and sex. Taken from a major bit of market research known as the Consumer [...]

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Lively piece on attitudes to money from a Financial Times columnist. Stay with this. Lucy Kellaway may have a lifestyle way beyond that of skint and indebted young people. But the principles she explores still hold good.
The theme of her latest column is irrationality. She looks at the odd realities of our attitudes to money [...]

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