Financial crisis: what kind of poor are you?

[Heated]

article in the telegraph

does anybody actually know any of these crap journalists

do they even have friends

or is it just a media ghetto under london

But Marian is unfazed by her fellow shoppers. "I started coming to Lidl about a year ago when my friend told me they did marvellously cheap Parmesan and olive oil," she says, "and now I'm a regular. It's the only place I shop where I'm always surprised at how little my final bill is."

I took her to a supermarket,
I don't know why but I had to start it somewhere,
so it started there.
I said pretend you've got no money,
she just laughed and said,
"Oh you're so funny."
I said "yeah?
Well I can't see anyone else smiling in here..."

Anyone who uses the word "divine" in public is s definite candidate for "first against the wall when the revolution comes".

UD,me and you will take 'em out with our Uzis.
I bags Surrey.

'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'

Hello Gobble.
Where have yer been? RL?

Yep.
Just working and work is boring today so just mooching on MN.

Oh its divinely marvellous to see you GDG

Very nice to have you back.
Where's yer mum?

Splendid!

Mum - I have no idea. Well she spends her spare time playing scrabble and other games with WigWamBam and others on Facebook!

Did tha bring tha mutther with thee ??

No, I don't know what she's up to - not spoken to her for about a week. She'll either be playing scrabble or some other word game or she'll be up a mountain OR planning her ridiculously expensive bathrooms she's having put in!!

Oh god by Mbs definition I am poor poor poor then as i cant tell you the various costs of milk in different shops and bread..[local newsagents cheapest as a 2pint of milk is only £1.25 there although 3mths ago it was only £1.15 compared to £1.48 at asda..thats if anyone is interested}

oops meant a 4pint of milk..we are poor enough to need to budget extremely tightly but within that budget we manage to run a family car [although I dont use it much per week]

Moondog

I live in Surrey........

I'm right there Laydeeee........

That article is beyond parody. I wonder where "Marian" and "Julia" et al will go next?

A night at the "divine" Working Men's Club, perhaps, to escape from the wine-bar? Buying fish and chips from the "charming little man" in his fish-bar rather than smoked salmon? A night at the bingo ("marvellously exhilarating, and so quaint") rather than the art gallery opening?

Or how about sending their children to the local comp? (No, don't be daft. You're just getting silly now.)

Compared to my grandparents growing up in a two-up-two down with outside loo and no heating, I'd say I was pretty minted...

The inverted snobbery on this thread is too much.

I happen to know that 6pts of milk is in the region of £2, and a loaf of bread is about 50p.

The easiest way for us to save money is to cut back on booze. We are fairly minimalist anyway. As a large family, material things are very stressful (in good times and bad), so we have always kept to the minimum of clothing and toys. Modest holidays are easier than extravagnet ones.

But I am nice, really I am.

bree how close to the Sussex border are you, I can help you escape

Cammelia

I am beyond help.

I am stockbroker country, 50 minutes into London, doncha know.?

I am doomed, I tell you doomed....