I know Im being unreasonable!! but WTF?!...

[PunnyOliveTurtle]

In the queue for the post office and a woman in front of me (take note we very squished up together) opened up her banking app. and my heart sank, she had 4 accounts...800ish, 2kish, 1kish and 10kish. I have one account with 178quid til pay day at the end of the month, and i need to buy food and pay a bill. I know i was unreasonable for looking, I looked away as soon as I could, but my heart died a little. I'll never have that kind of money. Such a different world we live in...

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I thought no.1 account had 800k. That's a bit. 800 dollars isn't much at all cmon don't be silly.

Could it have been showing her outstanding mortgage balance.

Mine shows in my app and look an account balance. Sadly actually money owed..!

@Finteq
Just for the record, the £800 was one of four accounts. OP says the other accounts had about 1K, 2K and 10K, so just less than 15K in total.
Not an extraordinary amount really, but I fully appreciate that it's a fortune to some people.

I still can't believe you snooped on the contents of four bank accounts belonging to a complete stranger? Why would anyone do that?

“If you just pull your socks up…”

Yes, honestly. That's beyond nosy.

It's a lot of money, although not crazy. 10k is a good amount for an emergency fund. No one knows how long it might have taken her to save it.

Don't compare yourself to other people, you have no idea what her circumstances are. She may be in a different stage of life from you . I used to live from week to week, and had to use credit cards that were never paid off in full for birthday gifts etc. Now I'm much better off and I have savings, but it took years.

Nope. Yours might. Mine doesn’t.

Indeed.

Exactly.
Or what challenges this individual is going through life.

It is just not a nice thing to do and then post on mumsnet expecting sympathy for her woes.

There’s literally no point in comparing what you think others have with what you have. We all make different choices, have different opportunities open to us at any given time. Of course you’re not going to have substantial savings on a low wage, and there will be reasons for you earning £18k which may or may not change over time. I’d hate to think someone over looked me in a queue and made assumptions about my life choices.

Mine doesn't - the only time it has a minus sign is if it accidentally has a positive balance (eg a refund to it)

Yep it's soul destroying

I mean thats quite a slow look away 😂

Ditto (though obviously not Lloyd's Mastercard with that particular balance)

I think most people don’t have a ton of money in the bank to be honest, especially at the moment. Don’t compare yourself to anyone, you don’t know what goes on in their lives.

I admire your positive attitude and understand why you don't want to touch your savings but please for the love of god do not jeopardise your health like this. You're making yourself vulnerable to serious illness by not eating enough. What would happen to your children then?

Food banks exist for exactly this reason, please look into getting a referral.

It may be ‘recommended’ but it’s not actually realistic for a vast percentage of the population.

You earn less than a full time minimum wage salary. You have no idea of her circumstances, maybe she works full time, maybe she has 2 jobs, maybe she’s worked very hard at uni then a professional job, maybe she was born into money. Who knows, but it’s no point comparing. Only you can change your circumstances so maybe focus on that. What can you do if you want more money, retrain, go full time, get a second job, change career.

YABVU you shouldn't be looking and surely you realise people have more money that you? I recommend you're never nosey over my shoulder if I've got my banking app open or we'd probably need to pick you up off the floor!

People should not be viewing online banking apps in public spaces where they could be overlooked!
OP would have probably faint if I opened mine in public!
Keep stuff private you don’t know who’s looking!

If only it was that easy, we’d all be loaded !

Ds and his partner managed to save up 20k for a house deposit doing very ordinary retail and council jobs part time. They just scrimped on absolutely everything, clothes from charity shop, compared supermarket food prices and so on.
Now they own a house in their 40's.

Those aren’t large sums of money. £1k and £2k can be swallowed up on a car bill or similar.