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.

We still have no decent flooring 18 months in to our tenancy.

HA and council homes are normally let as bare boxes.

I'm moaning a bit about no flooring.

I'm not entitled.

I did 2 years with a HA with one carpet so i know its not ideal but i didnt expect help with that considering i was getting my full rent paid for etc. I was happy to have a home tbh and carpets etc came in time, the person i know wants it all and wants it now iyswim.

Oh I don't know, Famzilla, I rather liked the use of 'tangy' in that context! I may just start using it that way myself!

Doesn't matter who give who what, ingratitude is rampant in this world. I'd avoid her tbh. I'd much rather be around people who are happy for what they have/earn/are given.

You know, it's weird how easily people's not-friends get huge council houses on mumsnet. All the women I know of getting "preggers" in my town and becoming young single parents got rooms in our town's hostel for young single mothers. Apparently it's ghastly, and has been for thirty years. After a few years, if they proved themselves, there was the hope of a flat of their own. The hostel I lived in had quite a few young single mums in it too. It was a nice hostel, definitely, but not worth having a baby for, unless you were already living somewhere pretty awful.

My mother was a single parent, and she never got one of these mysterious council houses for single mothers. She did get to live in the ghastly, unhygienic hostel. She upgraded through a succession of bed-sits and periods of sofa-surfing over (15 years) to a mid-terrace private let from a BTL landlord.

Where are these semi-detached council houses? Do you have to be able to tick "friend of a future/present Mumsnetter" on your application form?

I bet if i had said mummy and daddy moved X into a gorgeous home, massive garden and gave her money towards making it nicer yet she is still wanting more this thread wouldve gone very differently.
If people mention social housing etc they are most definately benefit bashers, so will get a very different response.

Where did i say friend? I said someone i know...

Some people are just ungrateful.

My friend has a beautiful house, decorated, clean, decent size rooms, in a nice quiet area and yet she still moans about it. She moans about silly things like the washing getting twirled up on the washing line. WTF?!

I get you OP. The source of the £200 is neither here nor there. To draw a comparison, this would be like someone winning £200 on the lottery and having a whinge because it's not quite enough to get them the £500 gadget they want, rather than feeling grateful that it's got them £200 closer to that target.

Ah the great MN know-it-all.

Read my posts please.... i said moved into not given for free....

Although while we're on the subject of decorating grants, given the proportion of elderly/people with disabilities living in HA properties, £200 won't go very far at all if they have to find and pay for someone to come in and do the decorating tasks.

Also, in the past the properties had to got to a fit standard before being let to new tenants, just as in the private sector (although it doesn't always happen, I know). This would often cost significantly more than the grants awarded now. The grants save HAs huge amounts of money rather than those in receipt of them being incredibly lucky.

And because i said mummy and daddy you assume mansion.... hilarious!!

Just curious as I've noticed it on here a few times, but what does  mean?

If single mums are being forced to rough it in scabby hostels why the hell are they getting pregnant and choosing to have a baby.

Don't have a baby if you have no way of providing for it.

But there must be someone to blame, emmmmm, err, oh, it's the govs fault. Whew.

Yes, oddly I've always had carpet from my private landlords. Even during the times I got Housing Benefit.

Some people seem to be confusing
a) renting a social housing property
with
b) receiving Housing Benefit.

Hint.
Lots of people living in (a) don't receive (b).
Lots of people receiving (b) don't live in (a).

It depends on the condition of the house, really.

When I was heavily pregnant (and single) I moved into a 2 bed HA maisonette for which I was extraordinarily grateful. But it was a total shit tip. The decoration grant (well, free HA supplied paint, which was rubbish) barely touched the sides.

Considering I was broke and massively pregnant, the state of the place (it was filthy, with terrible floorboards and various hideous shades of dark gloss on the walls) I'd have had reason to grumble.

There's a contraception held by a lot of people that the HA or council redecorate and carpet homes for new tenants. They don't.

ffs MISCONCEPTION not CONTRACEPTION!