To think she is so bloody ungrateful!!

[hickorychicken]

And lives in a different world....
Someone I know got offered a gorgeous 3 bedroom house with a massive garden etc and all sje has done is whinge! She was given a £200 decorating grant but all she keeps saying is "Oh well its not like im getting any help, i mean i need help with carpets, i cant live like this im not having it!"


I pointed out that i lived witg one room done for 2 YEARS. Its gotten me irrationally angry! I think im going to get a flaming but meh, some people want everything handed to them on a plate.

Dwerf

Actual concrete for me. Which wouldn't have been so bad, but the previous occupants had got paint all over it. Also, it was filthy. I tried cleaning it, but realised it was an impossible task!

Actual concrete for us too. With a 13 month old toddler. My father was so appalled he went out and found us some off cuts and cheap rugs!

But I was jut glad to have a home at the time. I have never heard of a ha place being let without windows tho! That's bonkers!

Well I once declared m ysef homeless to get a HS flat do I win?

I kind of had to declare myself homeless.

I was living with my mother when I got pregnant - late 20s (me that is!) and a graduate. I was perfectly happy to stay there - we were more like housemates than parent and child plus I'd moved away a loooong time before and moved back as a stop gap. But because we rented and because I knew I wasn't going to be able to pay my share of the rent for some time once I was on maternity leave, and because I wouldn't have been able to claim housing benefit because I was living with a parent she had to state that I couldn't stay. There is no way I could have got the deposit together for a private rental, either. Bonkers.

fwiw since having my son almost 14 years ago I have worked hard on my career and I earn far more than I might have expected to way back when - with potential to progress. Becoming a parent kick started me into getting a "proper" job with prospects rather than the kind of thing I did because I enjoyed it; not that I don't enjoy work now - but it was my head rather than my heart that ruled - thank goodness.

I do remember my elderly MIL, who lived in a council house, used to complain all the time about the council's decorators. I was a bit hmmm at the time as my mum lived in a private property and used be be up ladders doing her own decorating when she was in her 70s.

I bet my taxes paid for that salt dough!!!!! How very dare you!

Nope but I expect the salt was shop lifted

(Disclaimer that's a joke I know it was not)

Kitten

How come you were hmm about a landlord maintaining their property and that maintenance being funded via rent?

Because my mum did it herself with no complaints and mil moaned about everything that was done for her. Her rent was dirt cheap. I doubt very much that it wasn't subsidised.

Johnny - i claimed for 3 months whilst waiting for my uni to start. That flat was mega, proper party flat!

I stayed in a womens refuge. It was a very grounding experience. I still think about the women I met in there. They were all older with kids had been through a lot. The women who ran it were superb... really superb.

Btw I was escaping a difficult relationship myself. The Housing officer suggested it as a short cut. She was pleased to be able to help me. I never forget that.

Kitten until recently social housing rents being paid resulted in huge payments to the gov even after building loans had been repayed. SH using the true meaning is not subsidised

I fully support social housing. It's the complaining that pissed me off.

Exactly my point.

We were offered our social housing home in November (I was actually in labour when they rang me to say we had won the bid)

We both work (I'm on ML) on minimum wage.

We get child benefit and a small amount of child tax credits, nothing more.

Our house was an utter state when we got the keys, even after our HA had sent cleaners in to do a "deep clean".

We did get a paint voucher, which provided enough paint to paint our lounge, bedroom, kitchen and downstairs hallway. We still need to paint our stairs, upstairs hallway, dd bedroom and bathroom.

My grandad kindly gave us £100 as a house warming/birth congratulations gift which we managed to get some cheap laminate with, and a kind friend fitted that in our lounge and downstairs hallway.
My stepdad very kindly paid for our stairs and upstairs to be carpeted.

We bought cheap curtain poles from Wilkos and found some lovely curtains in a charity shop for our lounge (2 windows)
Our bedroom still doesn't have curtains or a pole!

We were lucky we have kind parents and friends who have helped us out.

Still, it beats being homeless doesn't it