Living alone is tough financially

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If you have a mortgage or rent a home alone..maybe different if you're mortgage-free or perhaps only renting a room or something.
You have to make sure you can afford everything each month. If anything breaks/needs repairing, you foot 100% of the bill. All renovations are paid for solely by you.
You have to make sure you have money aside for various things.
Living alone has many advantages, but financially it's tough and I'm not sure I can do it for much longer. It's stressful unless you have a lot of savings I think.

@EG94
yet rather than being humble and grateful you bitch

Reported.

Why should there be help? This is just maths. Ota not a tax or a penalty, it's just maths. I'm not taking away from the fact that two people living on a one bed flat will find out cheaper than a single person but it's not anyone's fault and it doesn't require a social or political intervention surely?

ok 😂 thanks letting me know. I’ll be sure to laugh react your comment

You've reported that after how you have been speaking to everyone on this thread.

And they whinge every year about wanting more benefits from taxpayers. Never see a budget where a single person no children is given a benefit or financial tax break or indeed some help.

It's the single child free taxpayers paying for benefits for everyone else and yet they want more and then whinge if you dare to aya how life is tough and tell you to house share!

Of course living as a single person is comparatively more expensive. However as soon as anyone dares to say so you get race to the bottom hostility like this.

I’ve been a lot more polite than that. That is sinking to a new level of nastiness to call me the b word.

Sounds like obtuse to me... Most normal people accumulate stuff, unless living in a furnished rental.

But the laughing emojis and violins is ok. If you can't take it don't give it but i suppose it fits into your victim complex

She literally didn’t, she used it as a verb.

You sound really unhappy in your life. And I don’t feel one bit sorry for you.

Yep. It’s why so many women stay in abusive relationships. Because financially it is easier and going it alone is effing scary, especially if you don’t have family who can help in a crisis.

@SugarandSpiceandAllThingsNaice I didn’t call you a bitch. 🤣🤣 you honestly don’t read. I said you bitch as in instead of being grateful for the safety the UK offered you’re bitching 🤣

You could sell it

I am saying that

1. it is a privilege to have more stuff than you need and afford to keep pets, and
2. it is a privileged attitude to think one person must absolutely have a 2 bed house all to themselves because they can’t let go of material possessions.

why does 1 person need 2 double beds (beds for 4)?

Why is your house full of stuff you don’t need?

single people don’t need sofas, sofas are for two people. Sit on a chair.

And as you’re single then you’ve no one to dress up for so the washing machine can go. If you don’t have children then you’ve got plenty of time on your hands so you can wash things in the sink.

not sure why you’ve got two double beds, one single bed (the clue is in the name) or a mat on the floor is sufficient?

But better off than a single parent paying for 1, 2, 3, 4 or more children - who would automatically get child benefit, could claim tax credits, 15-30 hours a week free childcare, free school meals and if renting, get a chunk of that paid

And better off than a couple where only one person is able to work - if the other person is unable to work...PIP, DLA, potentially tax credits and rent

And better off than a couple where only one adult works and one adult provides childcare for 1, 2, 3, 4 or more children - again, child benefit, tax credits, subsidised childcare, potentially FSM, rent

And better off than a couple where both adults work and they are supporting 1 or more children - still may be able to qualify for tax credits etc...

Probably also better off, if working, than retired people relying on state pension (pension credits, rent paid or probably no mortgage, attendance allowance)
disabled people on benefits, those without jobs....presumably a choice if they don't fall into another category, and if not Jobseeker's Allowance which could be supplemented by tax credits, help with rent etc

If you are living on your own (which may or may not be by choice), with no kids or adult kids who have flown the nest, there is no welfare state safety net or top ups and no choice but to work more or cut back to the extent one's health and quality of life can be impaired.

At car insurance renewal I advised them I'd been widowed and they put my premium up! I was told that I'm now classed as a single person and considered higher risk.
With regards running a home, in my experience it didn't cost that much more when there were two of us.

I think it is sad that we consider a working adult livign by themselves to be a luxury.

yet rather than being humble and grateful you bitch because you had to financially support your own fucking family.

This isn’t calling you a bitch. It’s saying that you are bitching (i.e. complaining) about something.

Just pointing this out for the purposes of accuracy.

Anyway OP I don't know what you're whining about. I've got a massive house and eleventy million children while, alas, I have no head. All you have to do is worry about potential destitution and freezing your fruit. You should try living without a cranium once in a while, see how you like that, you massive moaning headful minnie.

She didn’t call you a bitch, she said that you’re bitching. It’s a verb in the context she used it.

Geez 🙄

Well you weren't that polite to me with your snarky comment and worlds smallest violin saying I've got too much stuff? 😂

So, once again... Do you not own anything in your home for you and your family? And if you end up living alone in the future will you be tossing it all in a skip to go and share a flat with a stranger? 🤔

I know what you meant. I owe you no gratitude or humility.
You didn’t personally have anything to do with anything, you were probably a child then.

Yes, agreed. As a lone parent (not by choice) I have felt discriminated against. Paying a lot more tax than couples but getting no help in return.

Yeah if I had to. It’s just stuff. Easy come and easy go. You learn to not require 2 double beds per person when you’ve actualky had a hard life.