Financial crisis: what kind of poor are you?

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article in the telegraph

oh, yes, it's another cracking week here in private rental land.

my landlord hasn't dropped a letter through the mailslot telling us we've got 2 months to find somewhere else to live.

I urge anyone to try not to shop at Tesco. I hate this company. Fortunatley the nearest one to me is 30 miles away but the fuckers managed to get their express shop in a new complex in our little town. No other business could afford the rent. Except Costa and the like. Really peed me off we didnt need this.

I shopped online with them and never again. We have a good quality independant supermarket to hand they are expensive but Tesco are more so even with their bulk.

I'm going to travel 10 miles once a month to go to Morrisons and Aldi in future to get most things then just go local for fresh.

id have had a cracking week if i had hot paid for writing that artickle

actually no i woulndt i woul;d be ashamed

my typing is more suited to observer group

Dreadful article, reminds of those teenage magazines when you answer 'mainly A's', you're a such and such type. Mind you, just looked at the Times and was confronted by the headline 'Join me in the new austerity - Rosie Millard endures the credit crunch' - Holy God, please no.

Aye, Iorek, we didn't get a mention.

Working Poor
Jock wakes up at 5AM to do kitchen prep shift for lunch at the hotel.

He did back shift last night, so he's not had much in the way of sleep.

Diesel's up to £1.28/litre, and for once the news is good: it's no' pishing the rain and the wind is light.

So he gets on his bike and cycles 13 miles rather than drive over in the old banger.

Thankfully, his Polish workmates supply him with cheap baccy, as he's got little else in the way of creature comforts, bless his Jock soul.

He never thinks aboot pensions, savings or insurance, and it's no bad thing, because he'd never be able to afford those on his wage.

He kens Gordo Broon doesnae gie' a toss about folks like him, but luckily, he's got a cheeky sense of humour and just laughs aboot it all because after all, he's nowt but a Jock.

Badly written, self-indulgent stream of piss.

A ridiculous article but....

Is anyone sniggering at the names and personas?

"Hannah is a full-time mother, and recently decided to home-educate the children, until Graham pointed out the flat was too small for three desks"

How do oyu think they picked those names? Random? Possibly but I think Graham may be a twat who secretly habours desires to dress in a clean suit and arrange the pencils alphabetically.

Don't pretend you haven't done that.

Not Rosie Millard, please noooooooooooooooo

That desk thing is utterly ridiculous. What is wrong with a fold away table, really?

We're n0t poor, we have a (rented) roof over our heads, and a car (second hand but hey), and can afford to eat . So we're OK.

next year will be really tight (I'm taking a yer off with the baby but as was a student no maternity pay), but we will cope.

The big thing for us is no debts- we dont use credit. Not because we're saintly, because we fell for that before and learned our lesson.

Only big worry is lack of pension.

None of those characters are real, the situations are all obviously made up.

Rosie Millard is the worst of all.

Amusing riposte in the Guardian today....

www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/apr/27/houseprices

Where does that quote 'in Sicily, where several families share a swimming pool [if there is one] and all eat pasta together' come from? I'm sure I've read it before, about a year ago.

7 yrs ago when I was with xp, he was working full time low wage job, we had a house with a mortgage and 2 children, and we were dirt poor. There was no tax credits then, and we were about 2p over the threshold for family credit.
I shopped in charity shops if at all and my mum quite often brought groceries for us.
I even remember my next door neighbour lending me money for nappies.

7 yrs on, I am a single mum of 3, on benefits, in HA accomodation but I am no where near as poor now as I was then.

I would be considered to be very poor I suppose, but I have felt alot poorer than I do now.

rosie millard makes me puke

I posted this as I can't decide whether we're poor or encountering enless articles like this makes me think I am .

There's another one today extolling the virtues of shopping at Lidlhere but only if you feel you can stomach it.

God is this all these 'newspapers' can print at the moment?

It's when you can't afford to buy a Saturday Broadsheet that you genuinely are poor.

Are there different kinds then?This is so patronising I agree none of us are poor if we have a roof over our head and an internet connection