I'm working like mad, not buying anything, not upgrading/changing bike bits despite staff discounts, nowt. It gets me down big time. Anybody suffering similar? Cheer me up somehow, please!
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Anybody here skint too?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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It could be worse - you could have the tories in power and then you would have even less.
oh wait!.....
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Anybody suffering similar? Cheer me up somehow, please!
No I'm fine.
Hope that cheered you up.
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Not quite, but if the shortlisted interview doesn't get me the job, not only will I be skint but I'll also be without a home and everything that used to be in it...
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My mrs took my 2 year old son and ran off with my boss. I lost her, my kid, my job and my home. Feeling better yet?
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dont buy a lottery ticket skoolshoes.
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Hehe. Maybe I should? Luck's got to change sometime!
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maybe you're right. What's the worst that could happen...?
oh, right, already did!
Chin up, take control, win from now on!
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Currently v.peed off because a client owes me a few grand for work that I've done for them. There's no problem with the quality of the work or anything, but I've recently found out they're pi$$ing other sub-contractors about (using 'the recession' as a lame excuse to delay paying everyone)
...the main downside of self-employment
Apologies for rant - you'd never guess I was peed!
p.s. hope yer luck changes!
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Yep, haemorrhaging money just getting TO work with the fuel prices. Sold a load of stuff at a car boot sale just to sort myself out 'til the end of the month. Sod's sake....
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Yup. In a very insecure job so not spending anything just in case. Earning £16k more than I was two years ago but can't seem to hold on to any of it!
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Wedding in 4 months. No rich relatives. Nuff said
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Years of being (heavily) overdrawn every month - £40k+ salary and all the perks, but lazy budgeting and overspending points the blame squarely at us for that one.
Redundancy happened and now I'm mad busy working for myself and the finances are sorting themselves out with a healthy increase in income.
Co-incidentally the wife also has her own business which is starting to do really niceley too.
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I found twenty quid today!
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Well, I'm probably going bankrupt shortly... I'm dead broke...
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I was when I went Bankrupt 14 months ago! (When we had to close our company) - now in a much better place, new job and the first time in years I have a bit of disposable income. I've just bought my first new bike (only a cheapy mind!) in over 2 1/2 years.
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Cleaned the pump on the waching machine yesterday but only found 21p and a paperclip
Never had any real expendable income and i'm 39 it's just a way of life get used to it and enjoy.
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yep, everything is getting more expensive and I have this strange feeling that I'm going to get less money this month due to the NI rise.
It's all a bit shit really.
It's going to get to the point in the near-to-mid future where our (me and mrslister) conscious decision to have 'fun' badly paid jobs and a good lifestyle may have to be reconsidered. Might have to look for better paid jobs that don't involve so much beach time...Posted 2 years ago # -
Skoolshoes - Member
My mrs took my 2 year old son and ran off with my boss. I lost her, my kid, my job and my home. Feeling better yet?
!!! Mutherfukker!!!
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everything is getting more expensive
Was there ever a time when things weren't getting more expensive ?
In the last year inflation has been at it's lowest since 1960. So everything is getting more expensive at the slowest rate for 50 years then.
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Sadly fuel bears no relation to inflation. I've put two grands worth of fuel in my pick-up in just over 3 months.
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I can't believe this
In the last year inflation has been at it's lowest since 1960. So everything is getting more expensive at the slowest rate for 50 years then.
It probably is right but things seem to be going through the roof to me.
Fuels the main factor as it is for a lot of people and the cost of that has been going through the roof.
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The average inflation rate maybe very low but that's very different to individual item and personal inflation rates. Essentials in life such as fuel, food and services and taxes are increasing more than luxury item or non essential consumer goods so it has more of an effect on your disposable income.
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If it helps, I was feeling pretty skint before I read this thread. I realise I'm fairly lucky now.
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Essentials in life such as fuel, food and services and taxes are increasing more than luxury item or non essential consumer goods
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No as bad as others on here but I seem to be spending an unending amount on the house. Every time I think I've come to the end there's another problem that needs fixing and I am running out of money. Job is dire and doesn't pay well, but at least I have one; although depending on who gets in it's either no pay rise for years or possibly no job!! Joy!!
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I had this chat with work when they didn't give us a rise last year, they said, because the RPI had fallen. I checked what the RPI was made up of and found that the things in the "shopping basket" that had fallen in price and contributed to the drop in RPI were (inter alia): hotel accommodation, flights or sailings to holidays, house prices - ie, luxury goods.
Politicans can dress it up any way they like, but the cold hard fact is that I am now working more hours than I ever have yet have less money to spend. As for narrowing the gap between rich and poor, dream on!
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money appears to simply be channeled though me directly to all and sundry!
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i dont like questions about money.
if you say you are loaded people call you nasty names and stuff.Posted 2 years ago # -
rich bastard
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i forgot to add, i too am skint.
paying for a freeloading son, his baby and the babies mother to live with me. and just paid their bond for a flat.Posted 2 years ago # -
I have no problem talking about money - and that doesn't extend to bragging about what I've got, I find it fine discussing how unbelieveably broke I may be too.
I don't know quite why talking about money has to be vulgar, although it quite easily can be - that's got more to do with the person than the subject though. Salaries and the like for some reason seem to be a taboo subject.
Mind you, I don't have a problem talking about many subjects and find people far too uptight about things sometimes. I even know couples who don't discuss sex - and I mean between themselves, behind closed doors.
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http://www.equalitytrust.org.uk/resources/slides
check these out on the consequences of increasing inequality
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I've had to take two days off work this week, because I can't afford the petrol to drive to work and back.
Saying that, I might not have money, but I'm still pretty happy. At least I'm healthy and I've got a roof over my head!
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