to get irritated when others are pissed off about our wealth.

[drbread]

it's our money and it's upto us what we spend it on.
if we want a nice house etc we will have one.

I'm only going to be impressed with the size of your house drbread, if you now reveal that it's located in a mews in Chelsea.

some of the bedrooms do not get used but all the living space does.
anyway im not getting drawn into justifying it to you.

well it looks like it is in oxfordshire to me

How many bedrooms?

And how many of you are there?

oh hark at D.I zippi.

titty none of your business.

I am failing to see the point of this thread

Goes back to chasing Donald

there is no point is there

except i have imported a child for the afternoon

so that i would have one to neglect whileposting on mn

and there is nothing interesting to post about

exactly because noone can answer my fecking question.

is that it? Wtf have we been led on a wild goosechase for?

Not what I would call 'large'

oh well, whats that saying everymans home is his castle or whatever it is

That is not a house from the Mews in Chelsea I use to live on Eaton mews in Belgravia as we do not like to say Chelsea

My children are playing chess
They are taking turns
There are no ructions to sort out

MN .. come on is this really the best you can do??

It looks like it has come off an estate agents website!

well dgs is balancing on a chair cutting something up with scissors

perhaps i should encourage him to go in one of the numerous other rooms where i cant see him for full neglect qualifications

I have a big posh house
and you have a big posh house.
And people are horrid to you. But they are mostly lovely to me.

I wonder what could be different.
Hmm what could it be?

Drbread, I think your outrage is just a tiny tiny bit disproportional to the comment. Besides anyone with any amount of wealth knows there will always be those with less who will envy them. Sometimes what is simply admiration comes across to you as an insult.

To everyone else, have you ever wondered if Jade Goody types on here?

so was that yes it is in oxfordshire then

Make sure the scissors are sharp Zippi

Was mildly diverted as six year old just wrestled a knight from four year old, who was attempting a very dodgy castle

But she meekly accepted and is now sitting on her hands in punishment

Damn

On a serious note, when I moved from my old house into the house I'm in now, I had one child and was moving into a property with four bedrooms. I'm going to put my hand up and admit to feeling totally puffed up with pride about having a house which was bigger (if shittier, draftier and in a worse area) than almost all the other young families I know (we're in London so not so many people are living in really spacious properties round here). It was pathetic - really it was but I just couldn't help myself.

I got lots of comments about the size of the house and why we needed 4 bedrooms when we only had one child. I wouldn't have occurred to me to get shitty about it.

6 years on and I'm fantasising about selling up and buying a houseboat to cram my now much larger family into. Sick of cleaning, heating and decorating all this space. For the first 5 years of being here there were two rooms in the house that never got used at all. What a waste that was.

the problem with your question is in its phrasing. (the what makes someone think they have the right...business) - the answer is entirely dependent on context of which we have none. I can think of shedloads of potential answers but have no idea whether any of them are accurate

eg

• because you are annoying and they wanted to shut you up/put you on the spot/make you feel guilty

• because they are deeply unhinged and wildly jealous

• because they are genuinely concerned for the people of Africa and thought they had a chance at getting you to put some money to good use

• because they had a stand up row in the supermarket this morning and took it out on you

• because you remind them of their really annoying great aunt matilda

you see? what makes someone think they have the right to pass comment is a stupid question we can;t answer. so don;t get annoyed with us for not doing.

TBB
when i moved from my lovely little semi to my lovely but bigger house the only person rude about it was my sister.
I actually found the only downside was people who now found me charming when in my semi I had apparently been a boring twunt.

I tend to think I haven't actually changed

hope you nosy feckers have had a good look as its going now.

Oh?
Has it sold?

....And i'm really pissed off about your wealth

i used to love playing in this house when i wa a child

here

What has been said to you? Was it in RL or on here. Was it the 'how many rooms do you have and how many people live in your house thread'?

I don't think anyone should have to justify what they spend their money on if its within the law. My IL's are quite well off but they gamble away the majority of their money whereas I would rather have a bigger house or go on holiday. Each to their own.

I think its ok to ask questions in order to better understand other peoples lifestyles etc. but its not ok to be rude about perfectly normal choices. Lots of people would buy a bigger house if they could afford it regardless of the size of their family.