This week's MoneySaver who wants advice asks...
My back garden is separated from my neighbours by a fence that blew over in a storm a few months back. It's a shared fence, but my neighbours paid for it before I bought my house five years ago. They've asked me to pay for half of the replacement fence, but I can't afford to - even food is a bit of a luxury for me right now. I told them this, and they offered to pay for it and said I can owe them, but that would be yet another debt to add to my existing debts. Is there a way to say that I simply can't afford to pay for it without causing friction?
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