Biggest scam you didn’t know was a scam

[Sillysausage2]

Lighthearted 😂
I saw an Instagram post earlier about the biggest thing you don’t realise is a scam and we all accept as normal.
We all have stories about how our parents raised 7 kids etc in a 3 bed if they were lucky, my grandparents had 9 in a 2 bed 😂
the aim for everyone now is buying or building massive houses, 3 en suites at least, we spend the weekends in Ikea, home bargain etc buying shit we don’t need and cleaning the houses with the 4 bathrooms!
I swear I’ve spent more Time cleaning the legs of chairs than is reasonable and I seem to wash the walls of my bathroom far more than people ever mentioned.
I don’t remember my mother ever cleaning the panelling on the walls.
is it all a scam? Are we busy fools?
sometimes I got to centre Parcs like places and think how simple my life would be if we al only had one suitcase each

Christmas is a huge scam.

Seeing as it's soon enough but bloody easter eggs. I must be getting old as I used to be like meh about them but seeing the prices this year I'm shocked. Like who's paying £16 for a dairy milk egg?

If its a proper fancy one like the hotel chocolate ones I can get but even the nestle brands are getting up there in price

Yes, but they are much easier to heat bc they are better insulated and the rooms are smaller.

What about children’s parties? You used to be able to make some jelly and sandwiches, play ‘pass the parcel’, ‘musical chairs’ or ‘pin the tail on the donkey’, and then send the guests home with a piece of birthday cake in a paper napkin.
I dread to think what children’s parties in ‘venues’ cost nowadays.

Totally. Tumble drier. Hanger. No wrinkles by the next morning.

When my daughter was about 17 she had a costume for a play or something. She wandered into the kitchen and said, "Do we own an ironing board?"

My husband has done pcp a couple of times. Both times he paid up and kept the cars. I suppose if you want to change your car every 3 or 4 years, it’s a practical way of achieving that.

Just don't mention the word wedding.

I noticed planning a funeral had lots of things you need for a wedding but a lot bloody cheaper.

The biggest scam I have signed up for and did not know was a scam was private school for dc. I am a product of a state school and I genuinely thought that by paying I was buying entry to something absolutely special in terms of education (not in terms of sports, drama, music), just education. So I paid for the lot, from primary to secondary. And off I went to work, tyring to earn enough to pay for the dream, having outsourced education. I am so embarrassed now. Then came the realisation that the teaching was sub-standard compared to Europe, that the teachers did not care that much, etc. etc. And then the realisation that other parents hired tutors ages ago to help with the basics and I did not, and the rush to hire tutors to get A*s, and the nerves, etc. So I paid twice for the scam - first for the scam itself, then for tutors to rectify the mess the scam created.

No doubt some will say 'that is your experience, ours was different'. Well, maybe your price bracket was different (ours was a minor school), or maybe you are not ready to face up to the fact that a private school, like every private enterprise (I don't care that they say they are charities), puts profit above all else and all else comes second, if not lower down the line.

I keep seeing my mum's face in the mirror!

We bought this house 30 years ago, 4 bed bathroom, ensuite, downstairs loo. The couple selling were pensioners and she said she was sick of cleaning 3 toilets for 2 people.

My kids are now grown up, we are pensioners, I know how she felt.

Someone in RL told me this almost word for word a couple of months ago. I didn't know what to say.

It's all about Capitalism. Somebody has to be making money out of something all the time. We get poorer and the twats at the top get richer.

Marriage, and the belief in soulmates.

How? That have none, you have plenty.

why? No one makes you do it?

Oh, and religion is another bloody scam. Literally causing so much bloodshed.

We die and that's it folks.

I had a soulmate and married him. he died in 2011.

Oh yes, I'm sick of it and mainly of thinking what to cook, DH turning his nose up but when I ask for suggestions he hasn't got any.

I can't even say do without as he's disabled, I'm his carer and I suspect it wouldn't look good if I let him starve to death.

I also did not know that GP surgeries were a scam. I thought they were part of the NHS with salaried doctors. I found out only recently that they were private partnerships, i.e. capitalist ventures. I could not get my head round the notion that you can have a private company (GP surgery) where you choose to work part-time, but get paid as if you worked full-time and all of that is paid by the taxpayer. I still don't get it. I also did not know that these capitalist ventures work on the capitalist principle - the fewer referrals, the fewer blood tests they make, the more money they get to keep for themselves within the GP practice. When I was told for the first time, I thought they were maligning the NHS and lying.

I also did not know that consultants ran a scam too - by being allowed to work on the NHS and privately at the same time, in the same discipline, thus abusing the system, creating the queue for the NHS and if needed, shifting more serious cases for operations from their private practice to the NHS theatres. It was disgusting to get to know.

I find the greed and the cynicism of the most vulture-like private businesses and corporations more honest and refreshing than the lies of the NHS specialist doctors and GPs. Nothing of the above is aimed at nurses, hv, auxiliaries, etc.

Yep! We are staying in our 2 bed flat with 2 kids ! I have a place for everything and declutter massively every few weeks.

the Kids only really have about a weeks worth of clothes I’d say - I don’t buy loads and I’m doing laundry daily anyway so the clothes are coming out clean quickly

we mostly get books from the library these. Days rather than new books

toys one in one out policy

also ironing - why do people bother I never have done it

Yes religion too as has been mentioned

@godmum56 Personal contract Plan for cars. You put down a lump sum, pay a monthly amount for x number of years then there's a final (often significant) payment at the end if you want to own the car outright, or you start all over again with a new car. Very profitable for the car dealerships and finance companies.

You might say the same about a gold and diamond ring But If I don't own the one I paid money for then who does? We have LITERALLY been making money ever since money has existed....now its printed plastic is the only difference.

Of course they have freedom, they don't have to work: food, shelter, clothing and transport are all provided and they get to choose how they spend their time.

On the other hand I have to work, pay bills, do housework, and I have to always consider my kids before I can go anywhere or do anything.

Childhood is the most free time of all.

@godmum56

Nobody has to do anything. But we do. It's the psychology of all this stuff.

I loved the Christmas of the 70s.
Now it lasts three months and even buying some bacon has some festive meaning. 😂