However, there are certain things that you will be well advised not to spend payday loans on. You will get into trouble with your self, your family, your society and with your government if you do decide to splurge on these activities.



Illegal Drugs

Fast fact: In Canada, the annual economic costs of the trade in illegal drugs exceed $5 billion that includes health care for drug addicts, lost work productivity, criminal offenses and law enforcement.

When you spend your payday loans on illegal drugs, you are contributing to this humungous amount that could be better used for other government projects like education. Closer to your pockets, you will be spending more than $40,000 annually to support your drug habit, which should be enough to finance your education for the same year!

More than the financial costs to society and to your wallet, you are subjecting yourself and your family to emotional and physical costs that cannot be quantified as easily as economic costs to society.

Consider these: broken relationships, domestic abuse, arrests and jail time for crimes committed to feed your habit, lost job opportunities, infectious diseases including sexually transmitted ones, and other physical ailments.

Gambling

Fast fact: Spouses and children of compulsive gamblers suffer abuses at the hands of their husbands/wives and fathers/mothers. Also, research studies always point to children of compulsive gamblers showing higher rates for pathological gambling, tobacco, alcohol and drug use and overeating.

When you decide to gamble your payday loans in casinos, sweepstakes, lotteries, and online betting, you likewise decide to expose your spouse and children to abuse, neglect, addictions of every kind, and even prostitution. What might be a harmless one-time bet today can turn into a harmful full-time occupation tomorrow.

Soliciting for Sex

Fast fact: In Canada, prostitution per se is not prohibited by law as a crime. However, you will run into many criminal laws that make activities related to prostitution, including solicitations for sex, criminal and therefore punishable.

Let us count some of the ways you can be punished for soliciting sex with your payday loans:

- Mere communication about purchasing and actually buying the sexual services of an individual under the age of 18 – six months jail time

- Attempting to and/or conducting the purchase of sex in a public place even if the individual in question is over 18 years of age

- Performing sexual acts in public places even if it is inside your parked car

- Allowing to operate, actually operating and working in a bawdy-house and even offering someone for a visit to a bawdy house are punishable by law

And need you be reminded of the dangers of prostitution to your physical and mental health? Consider these: sexually transmitted diseases like HIV and AIDS, sex addictions and broken marriages.

Indeed, you availed of payday loans to cover emergencies – births and deaths, dates and weddings, health and hearth, medical and bills exigencies, to name a few. You definitely want to solve your financial problems with cash advances, not to aggravate your financial condition!