Financial crisis: what kind of poor are you?

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article in the telegraph

what kind of poor?

well, teh money kind.

but you know, i'd rather be that kind of poor than most of the other kinds.

That is a ridiculous atricle anyway and nowt but a flimsy excuse for Tories to blame Labour for everything under the sun.

Interesting. We're not poor by any of those definitions (although maybe pension poor) and are lucky in that we have no mortgage (we rent), 2 cars (which are paid for) and although we have some debt we realise interest free deals are drying up so have accelerated repaying it rather than paying interest. We don't pay school fees and by Sept our childcare costs will be down by 50% so we could, if we wanted to, live on dh's salary without me workng. We won't be doing so though, I will carry on working for as long as I can find someone to employ me as our strategy for next year is saving and stockpiling cash. We could cut back considerably but haven't had to yet.

Mind you, atm we have no assets (other than cars, furniture), no pensions, no savings, no life insurance. We are hoping to sort that out next year.

Did yuo make a decision re housebuying WWW?
My sister lives in France (or rather French Caribbean. Hardly any of them worried about buying a house. They al seem to rent.)

If Sarah's two kids are at the local secondary school and she can't afford petrol, why on earth is she doing a school rujn in the first place?

Are there no buses? Can they not walk?

And although we have noticed petrol going up and food prices increasing luckily we have been able to afford it.

Moondog, we offered a low price for ahouse last year when I was in a perm job and would have got a decent mortgage (before all c cruch stuff) and he turned it down but it's still on.

We are waiting until we've a) paid off all debt - we're more than half way there and b) have built up a decent deposit (20%+) and c) prices have dropped.

Janice won't get anything for childcare as she's unemployed. What am I missing? Why does she need childcare?

On the subject of the OP though, I do recognise the FEELING of being poor although on paper we should have loads of money. In practice it pretty much all goes straight out again but all that will change once we're debt free. Then we should have a decent amount to save every month.

there is no mention of the working parents who pay squillions in childcare either.

i am going right off sat telegraph, had been driven to it by the horrors of sat guardian. is there anything else bearable to read at weekends?

burst into tears of joy at a takeaway and box of chocolates?

That's flummoxed me

what kind of poor

i am mardy poor
so fork orf

im none of those

i have a nother thread on here saying what i am

but this is appalling

"Sarah takes some consolation from the fact that her mother has Alzheimer's, and probably wouldn't remember if she visited more anyway"

the whole article is dreadfful what shite crap wit tosh

buty that is dreadful
is this an intelligent paper

obvioulsy not

its fucking wank zippi
ignore it (move on)

i was as old as boomerang kid ffs!

Does every home-ed child need their own desk? Does it all go belly up if there is no individual desk? Isn't that a very school-orientated mode of teaching and learning?

they can sit on the floor pointydog
you just need a whip

I'll give this to dd1 to take in to school as her example of biased reporting

Shoddy

omg people whop write that kind of article must be actual people

is that possible

do they get paid

do they write it weith their mates in the pub

No Fishie.
Aren't you a regular contributor to our 'Isn't the Knobserver shite?' threads?

i shall take a waroped misguided pleasure in being a type complketely passing under the telegraph radar

in fact hahaha im not a type

shit poor

ideally i'd have the sat guardian mag, telegraph gardening and weekend, then on sunday stella and the obs food mag. the telegraph paper isn't too bad.

i gave up the guardian 10 yrs ago after they printed a recipe saying "usually it would be bacon fat but you won't have any of that, use goose instead" gosh i am grumpy old git.

Hey, who says fuel strikes are all bad? Maybe if people stopped trying to drive away from everything, and stopped driving towards where they think they intend to go, they might end up right where they should be.

think I am somewhere between Mortgage poor and education poor........either way it loos like I am poor