how do they expect you to live when everything goes up!!

[mommmmyof2]

I am sooo sick of everything rising apart from mine or my husbands wages!! We struggle at the best of times to get through every week and i just had a promotion and what for....so they can take benefits off us and to be taxed more on it!
I sometimes feel the harder you work the harder it is, i not sure how they expect you to survive these days, and when your children are asking for things and all you ever say is no then you feel like a bad mom

Ok, how do you feel expat about berating some of us at length for lecturing young people and saying the past was better when in fact we were a) addressing the thread title and OP directly and b) not one person has said it was better in the past and indeed we have all said that materially it is much better now that at any time in history?

Sorry, I didn't know we had to phrase our points like this.

I feel just fine about it, Morris, because I did not read her post in an entirely literally way, but as a point of inference.

And no, not all of this collective you you are trying to use to avoid owning up to your own personal opinion said the same thing.

But carry on trying to make it out you represent everyone on this thread who disagrees with me.

It always makes for a strong and credible argument.

I'm sorry, genuinely lost now.

My own opinionm is my own opinion, it's right there in my posts. I haven't pretended to speak for everybody who disagrees with you expat. Just for myself.

Please, could you highlight any posts on this thread where a poster has said that it was better to live in the past?

So why the use of 'us' then?

There are posts after posts on this thread comparing today to the past which is, well, a moot point.

If you want to speak for yourself than do so, don't go getting all collective and then try to turn the tables when someone points it out.

Good times I am 22yo my auntie who is 40 bought a house for 50,000 20 years ago. Her dh wages are the same now as they were then that house is now worth 300,000. Her house is a 4 bed roomed detached house in a very popular area. My dp wages are the same as hers (my dp has a graduate job her DH does not) the best mortgage we can get is 100,000 3 bedroom house in a not so nice area. We pay double the mortgage she does. My generation have to earn at least double the wages the last generation had to have similar life.

By me at 9:21 which is my past.

well i am sorry moriszapp, the title has obvioulsy hit a nerve with you. However when i wrote it i did not expect people to take it that literall, maybe i should have put 'oh nearly everything has gone up, apart from....' and started to list the items! bit silly really, i think people should understand what i was refering to.
No i do not go out, or drink alcohol, we as a family do not go cinema, not saying that we have nothing but our money goes on bills and food!
'They' as i refered to meant government, and in fact people who are narrow minded and do not see the bigger picture!
Some people who have built a life taking into consideration they did receive certain benefits(whether they had them in the past or not) when people have them taken off them, that bill that the credit paid has suddenly gone un paid ect..
This was my point, my husband has not had a raise in money this year neither have i, he works 45 hours maybe more a week, and we struggle. Petrol, food and other things we need are essential and they rise. We do find it hard to keep on top of bills and everything else.But the whole point of this thread was me talking about recent years not 50 odd years ago,sorry for any confusion.
But in the past 7 years i have lived on my own it has just got harder and harder. I do not expect sympathy as alot of people are going through the same thing, maybe worse.But i am entitled to moan, sometimes it's the only thing you can do!!