Crikey, people whom you owe more money than you can actually currently afford could well be such a curse… You really must read this epic of Evan Bakemeier, 64, who experienced perfect turmoil after her boyfriend ended the relationship and disappeared over night all her savings.

A short while later, she had depleted all the wampum she could still scrape up, including auctioning off her digital camera, a number of neighborhood group members networked to her relief with whatever they could pull down. Yet, everything got worse and worse when her credit card bank began shelling her with menacing notes hinting at imminent dispossession.

“I felt so destroyed and insecure, if my cousin hadn’t plagued me trying to make me get in touch with an online payday loan agent to furnish me with immediate cash, I’d quite possibly have done something I wouldn’t ever have had any chance to regret after,” she pointed out. “I realize that very many people are pretty distrustful of these associations, because they feel it’s like admitting to defeat, but my experience was quite different!”