And not surprisingly, she couldn't pay off even the _______ payment on her credit card bill. 2. A few months into her final year, the bank _______ her that it was going to reduce her overdraft from 1500 pounds to 1000 pounds. 3. This was a delightful kid who had great _______ with her spending and was economical about her lifestyle. 4. She didn't use her credit card as if (unlike me) it was a fashion item. She used it to buy food, to _______. 5. For the moment, she's working in the local supermarket, and it's ______ that she'll have another go at university when she has paid off her debts. 6. They set traps which ______ to our vanity and greed and sometimes to our basic need for survival. 7. And here we are today, caught in the credit crunch, with world economies in free fall, all because the ______ bankers set us traps which we fell into, attracting us with endless publicity for loans of money which even they didn't have! 8. I trusted you and you _______ me. You've got the whole world into this ridiculous credit card trap. 29. If I now cut your cards in half, and take away your potential to ______ money away from honest people like me, maybe it will be your turn to learn what it's like to run out of cash. 10. No more status symbols, no more bad feelings about wishing I could show how ______ I am to others.