AIBU to see the irony in threads about no having a penny but using the internet to rant??!!

[scuzy]

not on this forum but other ones i frequent i see many thread about having only a fiver in purse to last til next week to feed the kids. i mean seriously if things are that bad would you not get rid of the internet (unless its free) or sky or other luxuries??

or are they poor me attention seeking threads?

Look, if they are ( maybe?) on benefits, then it's week to week living. When it's gone it's gone

There is little leeway for unexpected bills or expense

true ILoveTiffany

YABVVVU

The internet is very cheap considering the value it's possible to get from it. It isn't worth ditching.

When I am poor I use ebay to sell stuff and get almost instant cash. It's been a Godsend.

i wasnt checkin how much money that have!!! i remember a previous post they had done about holidays and if things were as bad as they said surely a holiday was last thing on their mind!!!

anwyays like i said i was wrong.... i avoided their thread and ranted here instead.

oh never thought of ebay.

i guess i dont use it like ye guys do ... business/job doesnt depend on it but i do agree you can get savings online.

Your thinking is bollocks, the internet is no longer a luxury it is a necessity specifically if you have school aged children, who need the internet to do their homework.

I'd be suprised if there's really a net cost to having an internet connection for most people.

By the time you factor in cheaper utilities, insurance deals, ebay and other places for bargains, I can imagine it often pays for itself.

Ignorant AND a stalker. What a charmer.

Bread and Circuses, innit?

Cancel internet before cancelling heating?

Hmmm my internet is £10 pm.
My heating (Bulk gas; at least 4 times more expensive than mains) if I were to use it would be around the £300 per month mark (all year round DD)
I don't use the heating as I can't afford to. I go to the woods and collect lots n lots of lovely logs which i carry for miles to chop for my log burner so it's free (Logs cost about £140 per load, last 3 wks in winter)

Would cancelling internet really make any difference?
No it wouldn't.

Also the internet is absolutely vital as a lifeline for many housebound, disabled, living in poverty, can't afford (or can't drive) a car, isolated and alone.
Would you begrudge them being as they're so poor?

jaysus if i could delete this thread i would. i see i was wrong. ease up on the insults please!!!!

scuzy you've really cheered me up

I was just having one of those "Mumsnet's gone all fighty again, I'll have to give it up before it depresses me even more" moments ...

And then you came along and said YWBU after all! Props to you. And thanks!

i wasnt thinking when i posted this!!

didnt even consider disabled or house bound etc. good point!

thanks garlicnutty. talk about not letting the brain engage finger before pressing "post message" on my behalf.

ok scuzy

we forgive you

thanks guys. seriously ... i'll admit my internet is just for arsing about on. bar online banking, paying bills i forgot about all the cheap deals dp's has gotten online in regards furnishing our home and saved us a fortune when things were very tight. so it has paid for itself.

Yeah, it takes guts to back down OP. Respect to you.

Although without the internet, scuzy would just have had a passing thought, shrugged and moved on... maybe the internet is evil after all?

Although I'm not sure what she would have had a passing thought about, as there would be no internet, so, err... hang on...

tethersend my head hurts after that.... the internet IS evil afterall!

Lol Scuzy...you're not the 1st to have the knee jerk reaction about t'internet, don't worry. My explanation was a little long as this is something close to my heart (Not t'internet, I mean poverty/disability etc!) and it was also something we studied at university, re: poverty and what is considered a luxury etc.
You'd be surprised what people do consider a luxury until you get down to the bear bones of it.

Fair play for admitting there could be acceptable explanations.

I always think it strange how things have changed. I think I must be old. The teenagers I teach cannot even comprehend how anyone managed to survive in the days before mobile phones. "But how did you meet up with people?"

"um, we set a time and a place and then turned up!"

My parents refuse to have a computer in the house. They manage. Although, now I think about it, my mum is always popping over saying "will you look this up for me....."

I remember being so skint that I didn't have money to go to the phone box to make an important call, had to copper up to but a loaf of bread, couldn't afford to buy food and drink for my kids when we went anywhere, not even a hot chocolate in a cafe on a cold day. Struggled to pay bills and buy clothes and nappies.

I still decline some activities, nights out etc by saying "can't, I'm skint"

But I'm not. Not the way I used to be. Thank GOD.

For me, "skint" has a new meaning. Hopefully, it has for others now too.