Financial crisis: what kind of poor are you?

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article in the telegraph

Depends on the supermarket and the quality tbh - value is only about 30p isn't it?

I have discovered that meat from local butchers and veg from veg shop is actually cheaper and it tastes better

We're not well off, but we have been a hell of a lot worse, so I am thankful

Teen boys not fussy re clothes!Mine is a nightmare will only wear certain things and is skateboard crazy which is ££££££££

Food costs vary a lot depending on where you live- if you live here and don't have access to a car (like a lot of older people and students) then you are limited to the local spar, where a loaf is over a pound, whereas if you can get to Asda you can buy the Savers version. There is a bus, but bizarrely it doesn't go theough any of the estates, so you'd still be faced with a walk of a mile or two with all your shopping if you used it. Not feasible for a lot of people.

And of course there isn't a Butchers or grovers within walking distance, sadly. The village can do you a nice line in fake victoriana though .

I always wonder about people who judge having an internet connection- DH covers ours on ebay every week, ebay paid for the car replacement (without which he couldnt work, no bus or train available) and it all makes a difference.

Ha he might notice clothes in the way ds1 does

ie if its not nasty, tasteless (brown joggers anyone?) or synthetic then he doesn't want to know PMSl

I'm Poor but happy me

It could be better but it could and has been a hell of a lot worse. I know I will spend my life 'muddling through' It's not really and issue, it's just how life has happened for me

I don't really give a fuck if some newspaper full of tripe wants to put the poor inot pockets. I don't fit any of those stereotypes, am not rich financially but I feel rich in many other ways, I'd much prefer to be happy and aware of what I can and can't spend than miserable and living the life of riley.

As for bread, I like warbrutons but they only seem to sell it in the big supermarkets and it's about £1.10 I think, milk I'm not sure.

UQD, thanks for quoting that song, may have to go and listen to a bit of Jarvis now, Though I prefer his latest offering of 'Cunts are running the world' that man talks sense

I dunno - Young professional poor?

I have a mortgage which is about a third of my salary. I get by. My bills are astronomical though.

Could never afford a new car or one of those car deals through work. I have a second hand car and don't know how I'll be getting it through the mot so am considering cycling to work again to save petrol money.

I didn't read another Telegraph after the article, "Is now the time to buy your THIRD home?" a while ago.

I think we're all noticing rising prices - even dh, the word's biggest spendthrift, has made some serious economies after I presented him with a list of our bills.

BUT - poor? It makes me so cross when people say they are poor, when they are NOT. Even when child poverty is talked about, and then on tv they cut to people living in very decent houses, and they have hairdos, jewellery, cars, sat tv, computers etc - have you not seen that there are children in the world with NO FOOD?

LOL VS- ds3's middle name is Jarvis after Mr Cocker .

There are diffeeerent types of poor, but not those in the article. As far as I can see there's the:

Poor becuase they have no choice- disabled people, single mums who have no childcare etc, these are whom the most help should be targetted towards

Poor becuase they made an active choice to be- this is me, people who could be dual income, fairly well off etc but chose to be at home and raise the kids, or take a year out on a sabbatical, or stufy.

Poor becuase they don't work- people who amde their choices, certainly, but not in any proactive sense of the word; perhaps they grew up somewhere where industry collapsed, or in famillies where claiming was the norm, or for reasons that are beyond me.

Peachy I'm with you on no 2. - poor because made an active choice to be so. I feel too old for most of the categories quoted!

I'm haircut poor. I've just cut my own hair to save money. Was going for Juliet Binoche. Actually look like lovechild of Worzel Gummidge and Ann Widdecombe .

I'm not poor. I have enough, which is plenty.

The rest of the family are haircut poor but I'm not!

We're satellite tv poor (or enriched, depending on viewpoint) & will never suffer from lost luggage at terminal 5 either

Financial Crisis? What financial crisis? For the vast majority of folk in the UK, a fair number of issues in the scenarios presented have always been a fact of life! We're only reading about them now in the Teleguff because "Sophie and Alexander"'s sense of entitlement is being threatened now the city bonus is in jeopardy, the school fees have gone up 20 % (as 'I saw you coming') and the 800K they forked out on that DARLING townhouse in Islington suddenly doesn't seem such good value. And as for the ruddy TENANTS in the buy-to-let! Bloody hell, do they think we're MADE of money?

At the end of the day, the government isn't going to let Sophie and Alexander suffer if Sharon and Darren can be made to pay out yet more in taxes as in the 10% debacle.

I didn't take the article too seriously, actually- you have to remember for whom it's written and the Tele has always been famous for its Born To Rule mentality that has never felt any shame in its blatant promotion of the interests of the well-off at whoever's expense. I saw it as a rueful 'humorous' piece aimed squarely at its core clientele.

Peachy's definitions are far more accurate!

I don't think I fit in to any of those categories. We have a small mortgage that is easily affordable. No real debts and some savings. SO I don't think the credit crunch is likely to have much impact. We were fairly just-about-managing-poor before and we still are

I'm French poor - ie everyone else seems richer than us.