many people here have no idea what it's like to have money worries

[suzzieanneba46]

There seems to be a huge divide on here with many clearly having no clue what its like to have money problems. I do ok, I manage a good life but all it takes is a few bad events and my finances are in tatters. Loads of people that suggested I shouldn't fly because I wanted to save some money by avoiding ridiculous airport parking fees. When you have been forced to start putting everything on a credit card and know you won't be able to pay it off for months and will have to pay eye watering interest, then yes 50 pounds is a lot of money!

What a confusing TAAT.

people on here do seem to be comfortable and own houses. I do feel left out im on benefits living in a council house lol but i dunno how you can afford to fly away i haven't been on holiday since i was 15

i have a car that i brought when i was working. Poor people can run a car but not one with a high engine im kinder good at budgeting as well

Well op your food bill could defiantly be cut, with the size of that chip on your shoulder you certainly wouldn't go hungry.

YABU- many, many MNers have or have had money problems- why do you think so many people try to help others on their 'wah- I can't manage money' threads?

Lots of us have been there. Even those that appear extraordinarily wealthy now.

Well whatever happened on the other thread and whatever people think I just wish you a safe trip and hope you manager to get things done ok. All the best

Sell the bloody car and raise the £50 that way.

For the time you've spent arguing about the issue on here you probably could have walked from your own house to the airport...

Plenty of people don't have experience of being poor. I don't have that experience.

You mentioned your previous thread so I took a look at a couple. If everything is being whacked on a credit card, there are definitely things (low carb pasta for the poor and gym membership) that could be cut to resolve that if your income can't support your outgoings longer term.

However you mentioned a bereavement and for all we know you've just had to find money for flights to Australia, so I would suggest avoid posting about it in AIBU, dealing with what you need to deal with and maybe posting in money matters or credit crunch at a later date if there is a longer term issue with income vs outgoings.

iLoveMushrooms - I feel awful that you feel left out. That's not what Mumsnet is about

There are mixture of situations and I have found plenty of threads where people are struggling financially. Although this thread has been a right bun fight, Munsnetters on the whole are very supportive - of course if you come on and say you are skint because you spend all your benefits on designer clothes and now you can't feed the DC for a week then you may not get the support!!!

It's not always easy to look on the bright side but I guess that there will be some people jealous of you and your council house as they are renting privately with the extortionate rents and the insecurity. You might not have as much as some people but you will have more than others.

About 12 years ago, I lived on £150 a month for food, clothes, travel, to work, going out and anything unexpected. It went on for a year until I got a bit of a pay rise and mortgage rates fell.

There was only me and the cat at the time but it was a struggle. The cat became ill and I could not pay the £400 vet bill. My parents paid it for me fortunately- cat insured after that! I would have sold stuff to pay it if they had not helped.

I remember getting up really early and walking 3 miles to work to save £1.25 a day which totted up to about £6 a week and £24 a month- worth having to spend on something else. Once sold stuff at a car boot and made £200+ and it felt like a fortune.

I had no extras at all. I rarely went out socially - months could pass- did not have a drink, heating hardly on, made lots of soup, didn't have a holiday at all.

But I never once went overdrawn. It became a way of life to be careful.

Things got better and I got promoted, eventually met DH and we both have good jobs and are very comfortably off now but I haven't forgotten it, ever.