Who is the poorest person in your family and why?

[PassingStranger]

Just being nosy?
Whose the poorest and Why?

Cash or asset wealth?

Salary wise it would be my parents as they are retired so their pensions are less but no mortgage etc

THIS!

doesn't matter if you've got 3.5m in the bank if you're time poor and health poor.

"Poor" means different things. Eg I have a LOT more money than my sister - but she gets to spend everyday with her kids while mine went to nursery at 9 months because I havw to work ....

I would say she's richer than me in life though. Time for me is the ultimate richness

We all live in similar properties all over England and abroad. For me the price tag doesn't mean any of us is poorer because lovely massive home back home cost a little bit less. They are to be envied not us living here, near London

In my case, my DP is a writer, but really I meant any job where people go "Oooh" but that (in the overwhelming majority of cases) don't come with regular income because more people want to do them than there is money in it: artists, professional athletes, opinion writers, actors, models, academia, tiktoker, fashion designer.

I'm the only mug in the arts who gets paid in cultural capital instead of "money"

Happiness is not measured on wealth alone!
We live a wonderful life. 2 semi professional jobs but certainly not rolling in it. No debt apart from mortgage. 3 cars (1 each and 1 spare) all 14 years old or more. No sky TV. No new phones or contracts. No flashy holidays. 1 meal out a month and no take aways. No branded clothes. We probably look poor.
But we do have a house in the country that we renovated ourselves. A big garden. Animals. Nature. Each other. And gin lol.
I have family that have the flash holidays and new cars and big houses. But they also have big debt, big money worries. It's not worth it.

Yeah, my 4YO. No disposable income.

My DD because has about £3 as anytime she saves it, it goes on LOL dolls. She is definitely poorer than everyone else

Quite. A few years ago, my own kids and all their cousins under 16 were complete paupers. I mean - really - they didn't have a penny between them. Totally reliant on the family to feed, clothe and house them.

Things have improved, admittedly. But really, young people these days. Don't know they're born.

Hopefully your seven-year-old will snap out of it and get her act together, take some responsibility, develop some kind of fiscal plan. Ours all have, eventually.

Well, except the one who became a nurse.

I don't know as it's probably all around the same. No one struggling but no one really wealthy.

Strangely, all of us kids earn more than my parents ever did, even by retirement but they have the nicest house and the most disposable cash!

These are basically all examples of what I meant, though I can see that my throw-away comment was not half as clear as it was in my mind >< !

My son is currently the poorest, but he has a great investment scheme going that I’m helping him out with. I’m assuming Robux is the new Bitcoin? I’m expecting a return of a mansion if a couple of years when I get my returns 🤞.

My mother is currently unemployed and penniless due to being dead. I’m sure this won’t stop Liz Kendall trying to set up a ‘return to the workplace’ scheme for layabouts like herself though, so hopefully she’ll be back earning soon.

Youngest sister who has three kids to a abusive arsehole to look at them you wouldnt t know two nice cars nice clothes kids decked out but they are up to their eyes in debt

Exactly this 💯. I worked my way up the publishing role ladder after university then became very unwell after I had a head injury and post concussion syndrome before being injured by off label psychotropic drugs that gave me a permanent neurological involuntary movement disorder called tardive dyskinesia that is like Tourette's and Parkinson's disease combined 😢

This was a decade ago, and although I've had my two youngest children in that time, I'm not earning much money now I'm back at work part time WFH. I earn less than minimum wage, significantly less than when I was healthy working full time on a salary of £30k.

I feel like life's dealt me a horrible shitty hand, and i will need to change careets or win the lottery to earn more. 😪💔

I'm so sorry that your sister lost her husband 😔 😞

Me. We have horses.

The cat! The lazy freeloader doesn't even catch mice. 😜

Bloody kids, never pull their weight.
Mine is my eldest son. Through stupid life choices and bad luck he’s unemployable, on benefits long term.

My 1yr old granddaughter. She has no job, just lies around all day expecting everyone to do everything for her.

I blame the parents!

She should have gained employment by now!

I did wonder! 🤣

Oh, I see! I suppose I think of prestigious jobs as those that people admire (even if they’d never do them). Jobs that command either respect (in the moral sense) or a ‘wow, that’s amazing’, iyswim. So, aid worker, as opposed to corporate lawyer/hedge fund manager. I know rather a lot of City bods, and I’m married to one, so that may skew my views a bit.

Also, as someone who went to art college, I can assure you that creatives are not humble!😆

Anyway, I enjoyed the gif. 😊

This is such a sad story. I’m so sorry.

It was super clear to me! I think different people just have different understandings of prestige. Which is very interesting, as it had never occurred to me until this thread.

I've no idea

Me. £24k. Private school, was usually top of the class, master's degree. That's what you get for working in the arts. And not attaching yourself to a man.