Monday, September 14, 2009

Naivety never dies

What we pin our hopes on apparently doesn’t change much between childhood and adulthood – apart, perhaps, from an increase in desperation.

10% of seven year olds expect to have saved a million pounds by the time they reach 18, according to a Post Office survey of seven year olds. And 17% would buy a car if they had £2,000, 27% receive no pocket money at present, 12% want to become a vet, and 57% believe their parents are putting money aside for them when they grow up and leave home. Ah, bless!

And later on in life, despite only a 1 in 14 million chance of hitting the jackpot, more than one in four Brits pin their economic hopes on winning the lottery, according to research by the Institute of Financial Planning for Financial Planning.

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