Inflation and recession

[mbev51]

Hi, brace yourselves for what is coming. My wife and I are very lucky we have means and resources. One third of the population arent as lucky, they have no savings, they need to be supported, how that can be achieved, i dont know. Im trying to read 'road to Wigan Pier', only a few pages each night. The book, which is really a commentry on working class lives pre war, paints an awful picture of the lives of particularly miners. How familles kept going in those difficult times, its just so different to todays lifestyles. Our country is getting poorer, hopefully we will never regress back to those times.

[mbev51]

This was meant for the social forum

[Borg Warner]

Watched Secret Spenders last night, working class folks can spend £750/month on takeaways and £1500/month on clothes apparently.

[Arctic]

I wonder how long it will take to get moved to the place it should be, any savings you have will soon be taken up, as the interest on it is very poor, and that is what the very wealthy want you to be down in the gutter.


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[macafee2]

Originally Posted by mbev51

Hi, brace yourselves for what is coming. My wife and I are very lucky we have means and resources. One third of the population arent as lucky, they have no savings, they need to be supported, how that can be achieved, i dont know. Im trying to read 'road to Wigan Pier', only a few pages each night. The book, which is really a commentry on working class lives pre war, paints an awful picture of the lives of particularly miners. How familles kept going in those difficult times, its just so different to todays lifestyles. Our country is getting poorer, hopefully we will never regress back to those times.

Like most if not all things there are two sides to every story.
We have the family that needs support because they fritter their money away.
We have the family that needs support because they are low paid and have nothing left for saving.

The future is looking glum so I suggest spend wisely in case glum it is.

macafee2

[bl52krz]

Originally Posted by macafee2

Like most if not all things there are two sides to every story.
We have the family that needs support because they fritter their money away.
We have the family that needs support because they are low paid and have nothing left for saving.

The future is looking glum so I suggest spend wisely in case glum it is.

macafee2

If you wish to fritter your money away, then I don’t see why I And you should give them any more to pay what they should have paid to start with. As Queen Victoria said ‘Let them eat cake. 🥶🤥🥴

[Martin Butler]

Expectations are a lot different also, When i was a kid we were a family of 6, 4 kids and 2 parents, money was tight, but my parents were of the war generation, clothes got mended, and if an elder son grew out of something, one of the younger children got it, hand me downs, we grew our own veg, and fruit, we foraged hedgerows for black berries, went fruit picking , mum was never a good cook, but she always seemed to be able to put something on the table, us kids, 3 boys and 1 girl all learnt to cook, to wash our clothes, and were quite independent, once we were all working, we paid our own way, we paid rent, and if we wanted something, we got it our selves, we saved up,

[xsport]

most are buying takeaways, eating in burger bars, drinking from supermaket booze and take roll ups and cannabis regularly. most have cars, oh and all have sky sports channel. ...

[Borg Warner]

Those that are in genuine need should get every possible help they can.

Those that can't be bothered really need to be taken to task.

Sadly the former get put into the same pot as the latter, which does no one any good.

Originally Posted by Martin Butler

Expectations are a lot different also, When i was a kid we were a family of 6, 4 kids and 2 parents, money was tight, but my parents were of the war generation, clothes got mended, and if an elder son grew out of something, one of the younger children got it, hand me downs, we grew our own veg, and fruit, we foraged hedgerows for black berries, went fruit picking , mum was never a good cook, but she always seemed to be able to put something on the table, us kids, 3 boys and 1 girl all learnt to cook, to wash our clothes, and were quite independent, once we were all working, we paid our own way, we paid rent, and if we wanted something, we got it our selves, we saved up,

Same here, except 4 boys. I was the youngest so luckily by the time the clothes got to me they were back in fashion!