To think there's nothing 'only' about £100 odd quid

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I'm fed up with kids coming home with notes from activities, that say:

come and do such and such it's only £100 odd and due in next two weeks.

I'm fed up with companies i.e. garage, saying it's only £100 odd to get it fixed, we'll go ahead and do it then - er no, but why it's only £100 to be done, yes but you are not the first nor last that wants £100 from me.

I'm fed up with friends saying come and do x i.e. hen do's, parties etc, it's only £100 odd - sorry can't make it, oh you are such a party pooper.

AIBU to think it's not only £100?!?!

They get this from the advertising of PC World and Currys and their ilk. You know their persuasive: "Only five-nine-nine" - wha-at?!

Yes. I think people who have a lot of money really do feel that it is 'only' a hundred pounds.

I had a time in my life when it was 'only' a hundred pounds. No big deal. Didn't seem like a lot of money.

And then I had a time in my life when I couldn't find a spare pound for a loaf of bread, and anyone saying 'only' a hundred pounds would have probably got my boot up their arse

So I know that it really is 'only' a hundred pounds to some people and not everyone who feels that way truly understands what it's like when that hundred pounds is beyond you.

YANBU... Once you're getting into bank-notes as opposed to loose change I think 'only' isn't appropriate. A lot of people have to watch every penny and by downplaying the £100 requested with an 'only' the implication is that 'it's small change to me'...

The same people tend to say things like 'it's only money'...

YANBU there is nothing "only" about £100. Even on full-time hours when I earned a good salary £100 was a big sum.

YANBU.

I still price things in terms of hours on the minimum wage, it was a good habit to get into when I had my first job. I'm not earning min wage now, but work far fewer hours, so that would still be a lot of money for me. And even if I was a billionaire I think I'd still think of money in those terms, it's pretty ingrained now.

Also thanks to GCSE Economics I also think of 'opportunity cost' e.g. what else could I have for that £100. That was one of the few useful things I learnt at school I think!

oh well will have an extra 100+ this month as no council tax

woohoo

my new glasses will cost £170 - so no new glasses for me

U are completely NBU. Thinking £100 is "only" anything leads to all the unsustainable personal debt we have round our necks these days.