to think that going on Rich House Poor House is horrible

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I can't understand why people would do it if they are the poorer half of the programme, it must be so hard for the children from the poorer families - I wonder why they do it?

I woulda say we were in between but to me, disposable income is what’s left after mortgage, bills, council tax, food, car costs. Basic clothes and toiletries.
Then you can look at extra stuff for kids activities, socialising, holidays, hobbies.
In the prog they deem food as the ‘disposable’ part. I’d count rating out and takeaways but not the weekly shop.,

I really enjoy watching it, but I do wonder about the effect it has on people who take part mentally.

The richer ones must feel some guilt in lnowing that other people are working full time and genuinely struggling. I worry that the poor families feel worse about their lives after.
I do think it’s probably helpful for children to have a snapshot of something else to aspire to, but then, if they don’t reach any sort of semblance to that life, what will that do long term to their self esteem?

It has helped DH to understand that actually he’s never been poor. He hasn’t struggled as much as he thinks he has.

What I don’t understand is the meaning of disposable is very different in the households.

The rich family usually has a £200+food shop delivered then there’s the disposable income.

Poor house, no food shop, just the disposable income.

Yes there is a big difference between what people deem essential for bills and food.

hungryhippo that's the poverty porn element though. The poor house always has about 5p gas and electric on the meter too and a car that breaks down at least once.

That's the reality though. In two weeks my car and dh's work van have broken down. (Yes we do need to run two cars, wish we didn't but we do)

Followed by the washing machine. Coincidently the day before dc came down with first tummy bug for ages...

It's always a certain type of rich house too, large, in the country often with animals. My fairly pokey London terrace was worth the same as one of the houses recently, but I dont think there'd be any 'oohs and ahs' at it and we don't have any expensive hobbies and my children are at state school.

It’s is a horrible programme.Really feel for some of the poorer families. It is not a topic that should be used for so called entertainment.

Yes, well, we don't live abroad. I'm from a poor country myself, it's not a race to the bottom or a comparative scale and actually, we have a rapidly deteriorating 'safety net' in this country and for some people (particularly for some with certain disabilities) none at all.

Of course the participants in this type of crap programming are going to be housed, it's called 'Rich House, Poor House', FFS, they'd not be able to do the show with a tent. hmm

but the rich arent rich to some. There are much richer people in the world than those on the show. How about billionaires they have more. If the rich went to live in the billionaires house they wouldnt be rich at all. Its all pointless.

To very wealthy billionaires the rich arent rich at all in that programme.

I wonder if the kids from the "poor house" have the mickey taken out of them at school. Its really not a good thing to be on TV about it and when the cameras have stopped rolling the film crew wont care they will be long gone.