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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: scimmy_man on 05 December 2010, 20:03:41
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1335550/Merry-Christmas-Along-millions-middle-class-families-I-afford-one.html
only £500 a week to scrape by on?
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awwwwwwww...ive no sympathy for people who have oodles of money and squander it without putting any aside for times like this.im glad i havent got any but ive a roof over my head and my kids are healthy and warm and thats all that matters
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im glad i havent got any but ive a roof over my head and my kids are healthy and warm and thats all that matters
Well posted Herc. :y
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I wish I were brave enough to do things differently. But the truth is I’m just too squeamish about disappointing my children in the short term — even though in the long term I would probably be doing them an enormous favour.
Says it all.
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poor bitch shes only got three houses.
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I think the ignorant idiot should wise up and live in the real world. It's just a bloody disgrace that we've allowed our country to get like this.
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Her inability to run her day to day life let alone chrimbo without a comfy budget shows a lack of imagination & more so experience but then what do you expect? She's never had to struggle or make the pennies stretch so of course she's lost. Hav'nt got time to bake? My arse. Everyone's got time to bake & most (not all i know) of the gorgeous Nigella's recipies are cheaper, child friendly & more within reach of the rest of us than most TV/Celeb chefs.
I'd like this woman to write again after a year of living on £500 a week intead of £1200. I think we'd see a much more grounded & life experienced individual. Guy.
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Only £500 a week!!!
Heavens above, I earn just over HALF that a week, and still manage to pay my way. We have a mortgage, (on a modest 3 bed semi) and two teenage children...
We give them the best we can, and they have been brought up to appreciate everything, including the real value of things....
This stupid woman ought to spend a couple of nights under a cardboard sheet, sleeping in a shop doorway...
THREE homes FFS.... some people don't have ONE...
Poor rich bitch!!! >:( >:(
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awwwwwwww...ive no sympathy for people who have oodles of money and squander it without putting any aside for times like this.im glad i havent got any but ive a roof over my head and my kids are healthy and warm and thats all that matters
same here :y
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she owns 2 houses and yet lives in a rented apartment.........i think i've spotted a saving Einstein ;D ;D
p.s. her brats sound like hideous, grasping trolls - she's getting what she deserves by spoiling her kids when times were good if you ask me - and they're not exactly that bad now anyway :o
funnily enough its the kind of stomach-churning "poor me" column you'd often see in the Grauniad, one of the many reasons i ceased to buy it :y
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Now come on you lot, where is the fabled OOF Spirit! I reckon we should pass the hat around for this poor unfortunate girl :(
Please give whatever you can, & if you wish to s**t in the hat please make sure it's wrapped in tissue paper first, after all it is nearly crimbo! ;D
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Now come on you lot, where is the fabled OOF Spirit! I reckon we should pass the hat around for this poor unfortunate girl :(
Please give whatever you can, & if you wish to s**t in the hat please make sure it's wrapped in tissue paper first, after all it is nearly crimbo! ;D
;Dcount me in will have to use a tupperware box as had a vindaloo tonight ;D ;D
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Now come on you lot, where is the fabled OOF Spirit! I reckon we should pass the hat around for this poor unfortunate girl :(
Please give whatever you can, & if you wish to s**t in the hat please make sure it's wrapped in tissue paper first, after all it is nearly crimbo! ;D
;Dcount me in will have to use a tupperware box as had a vindaloo tonight ;D ;D
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I bet she'd really appreciate the thought Millwall, after all she has been brought up to expect the best & you can't ask for better than tupperware can you? ;D
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precisely phil couldnt have her slumming it with any old plastic box only the best for her ;D
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Oh dear , How sad , what a pity , never mind ............
Next !
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If I could just play devils advocate for a minute.......... She has lost a large percentage of her income (the fact that the income was more than yours or mine is irrelevant imo) and she is struggling to come to terms with the fact.
The other 2 houses she bought (rainy day money) went into negative equity quickly by the sound of it, so she cant just cash in her chips on those properties and live off the proceeds. She is caught in a trap.
Most people who read or comment on this thread are only a redundancy or a few months missed mortage payments away from having their lives turned upside down in a similar way. The starting figure may be different, but the effect would be very similar.
What is it about the British, that we seem to enjoy seeing someone who was better off than us falling on their arse ?
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the Germans use the word "Schadenfraude" ie revelling in others misery, you make a good point Albs its all relative I guess and at what level of income does it turn from being amusing to tragic?
She could still live in one of the houses instead of renting tho, negative equity or not :y
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So she borrowed to much, then could not pay it back? Big deal! Bought way to many houses and frankly sounds like she does not have a clue, they ran a similar story when someone who thought they knew it all bought 3 flats out of a glossy brochure in Manchester, then saw value fall by 40%!
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Hindsight knows everything Tunnie. ;).........a few short years ago, buying as much property as you could get a mortage for was considered to be a very shrewd thing to do.
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Hindsight knows everything Tunnie. ;).........a few short years ago, buying as much property as you could get a mortage for was considered to be a very shrewd thing to do.
Agreed, but putting all your eggs in one basket has never been a very clever thing to do, as this lady has discovered. ;)
Kevin