to think you are NOT skint if...

[macdoodle]

You have a nanny and a child in private school. Come on, you obviously have plenty of money, you just choose to spend it all on your choices. You are not skint are you?? AIBU to think this.
Have had to listen to someone moan and moan and moan about how they never have any money left and are always "skint". But they have an almost full time nanny for their younger child (and at times I know mum is having a coffee/going to gym etc while nanny is there, not working), and older child is at a private school. Thats not skint in my book.

I have known people who have ploughed every penny into school fees to the extent where they cannot even afford to buy a 20p newspaper however.

If they are in the the private school circle, they probably do feel skint compared to their friends.

I think different people have different ideas as to what is skint, with me it's when I only drive the school runs in the hope of the petrol making it to payday and tell DH and kids no cups of hot choc or tea as need the milk to stretch to payday too.......but a friends idea of skint is not to go to starbucks after her manicure and only go on holidays in the summer instead of Easter and the summer.

I have an ex-friend who was (and probably still is) always moaning about being skint. She even forced her poor sap of a husband to do extra evening work. Their income was well over 150K pa. I stopped being invited over when I flipped at her moaning about poverty once, after she'd just invited a bunch of us over for a "playdate" which was really an excuse to show off her brand new kitchen and 8 grands worth of patio furniture. I believe I actually laughed at her. She's not my friend anymore.

At that point my husband had just been made redundant and i'd returned to full time teaching to do my bit. I may not have been in the best of moods.