To ask you honestly what are your first thoughts on seeing this?

[gemful]

NC’d for this

A couple. 2 dc (no childcare)
A brand new, new build house. Mortgaged.
Two brand new cars.
They don’t dress designer but the present well.
She has a few designer handbags.
gadgets are always good brands, latest I phones, shark hairdryers, robot hoover.
very organised and tidy home, both work full time in good jobs.
They do family outings every few weekends but not every weekend.
Honesty, what are your first thoughts?!

Unless you're either telling them what you've bought/showing them your purchases/leaving the packaging out for people to see on recycling day how would they know what was in your house?

New cars I would assume are either leased or company vehicles.

How you choose to spend your money is up to you.

Booo I was looking forward to more observations of next doors lifestyle and their lavish spending and how it was paid for.
Bitterly disappointed.😭😭👍😁

Ive skimmed, but whats the point of the point of the post?

I would have thought a combined income of around 100k upwards is middle class….

We do get child benefit, but nothing else. Actually, DH recently received a pay rise, so it’ll be more like £45k now. I work part time in the NHS and earn approximately £15k. We don’t have any savings worth talking about and scrape by from month to month, but so does most everyone we know. If you put our salaries through entitledto or similar, along with our mortgage (small compared to many, but I think we might get benefits if we rented rather than owned), you’ll soon find yourself looking at a big fat zero on the screen.

Absolutely nothing. Why would it be any of my business?

I wouldn't think anything. Doubt I'd pay them any attention as it all sounds a bit meh.

I do find it odd when people think a "brand new house" is a bragging point, mind. Unless it's bespoke, designed by your own architect and built by your own builders, new builds are royally shite.

@Iamnicehonest I did much and such the same,we've missed the sum of bugger all.
All rather pointless.🤷

Thoughts about what? You need to ask a more specific question.

I'd tell the nosy neighbour that you've actually won the Good Morning Britain mega prize - 200 grand in tax free cash plus a brand new family car plus gadgets and designer gear for all the family.
Didn't she notice Andi Peters and the camera crew on the street?

That I've clearly arrived at a life stage where I genuinely couldn't care less what other people have, how much they earn or what they do to earn it.
Where I understand that what other people have or don't have has nothing to do with my life, and that my life is more interesting to me than theirs. That I regret the times spent when I was younger being curious about others finances/apparant success, and feeling either pleased with myself or disappointed based on their lives rather than my own, even though my finances/success was the same, irrespective of theirs.
If I were you OP, I'd flat out refuse to give these things headspace and ignore those intent on pulling you into a comparison game.

You think all old houses are damp and mouldy?
Oh......so that's why you bought an overpriced newbuild.

She is not bragging, just stating facts. What would be the point in her bragging on here anyway, we don't know her?

I think it is a great pity that people resent others with good incomes and a few good possessions. Everyone will encounter problems and heartache in life regardless of what they earn or own. Live and let live.

The OP does not need to take notice of these negative people and just needs to get on with her life

Don't listen to them. Putting £2000 into savings each month is far more than the average family in the UK manages. You must be saving about one third of your household take home pay (plus pension contributions?) which is a really healthy amount. My only advice would be to make sure you've got a decent split between long term savings (that you aim not to touch until retirement) and short term savings (that you draw down for things like holidays and cars). There's no need to sacrifice your precious family time to take on more work.

"Hardly" ample? I only earn just over 2k in a month. 😬 and mine is the only income to the house!

But seriously, well done OP. Take no notice of what anyone says. Not their business.

If you have 2 kids in childcare and are bringing home approximately £3280 per month after deductions (based on you saying it is a combined income of £45k with you earning £15k of that) then you probably are entitled to some UC.

To be honest, my thoughts were bland, aspirational working/middle class seeking validation of some kind for material 'achievements', otherwise why focus so much on brands, robot hoover etc .....

No thoughts whatsoever but if pushed I’d have to say dull as fuck with basic and pedestrian tastes.

I'd not really think anything. If I knew enough about designer brands, etc to know the monetary value of all this, I might think they were a bit shallow and 'keeping up with the Jones's'.

I'd tell her to shove it.
She must have no life to be so interested in the accoutrements of yours.

I assume she's working too hard to watch daytime tv

I would hate to be living that cliché

I can't imagine a world in which I would notice or care what brand of hairdryer someone else had.

I also don't believe the neighbour said that about the car.

Really? If the 2k a month is invested and assuming an average 5% return, that'll be worth 1.6 million in 30 years time.

Considering that they're also paying down the mortgage and so building equity there, along with the fact that they'll be able to save more as their incomes go up or when their children are independent, I'd say they're doing very well.