This will probably get me into trouble... but how can you have money worries...

[emkana]

... when the wife is a full-time GP and the husband a solicitor? I'm just reading "What about me?" by Kate Figes and the narrator in the book is the GP and she moans about not having enough money to buy a decent car or to fix the roof. Now, I estimate that the combined salary of that couple would be about £150.000 a year, wouldn't it? How can that not be enough????????
I know, I know, the woman is the narrator of the book and so it's subjective and you spend what you have so it never feels enough and all that...
but still it puts my back up, am I supposed to empathize with the narrator now over her troubled lot or what???

don't judge me because of the size of instrument please

Who are we to judge anyway?

highly recommend dyson, except the colours. mine's purple & lime. i think the newer ones are more discreet?

Mmmm, Dean & Deluca from a Krups coffee maker with half-and-half. What a way to start the morning!!

I have a Dyson animal as well - 3 cats one small person warrants it, it is the business!

& a shot of Amaretto...

On the cheap? Oh thank the lord - I've been kids shoe shopping - ouch!!

Both please - active fit/cruisers and easy up pants - both size 4. Ta muchly.

in the coffee.

We use ours so much, we had to have the motor replaced. BUT well worth the £70 to replace the motor. Just have to make sure to change the filter every few months. That 'Fursian' as we call the Persian one, is one sheddy fella.

ooooooooooh ES - snap well worth it recon as well! the dyson animal with two dogs! fab!

does anyone else have a wee nip during the day?

I think I am actually on my 3rd Dyson as I have had every part replaced at least once, I would say they are great but not that reliable but in saying that if you pay the extra £55 for the 5 year guarantee it is well worth it, they send you the parts no questions asked. I use mine every day sometimes twice depends on what the monster has thrown on the carpet.

No Dyson's have always been poor ime - my miele is gorgeous.

oo also have dyson animal as when we got it we had 2 dogs and toddler...now down to one dog and toddler but well worth it...DH got it on discount from work

of course, it is possible to own a dyson & have money worries. how worried is worried?

"not enough money": not being able to satisfy consumer urge or not being able to shop for food to feed family?

maybe it is dysons

I dont have one and I dont have any enormous money worries either

If I staretd worrying about aour situation, I would end up with severe depression very soon. So, I don't. (Most of the time)

O bugger, I've got a Dyson

We have a Sebo.

I love MN, only on MN could a potentially explosive thread end up in a discussion about vaccum cleaners.

er well money worries - erm, not as such bills are paid, foods always on the table, not much left over at the end of the day but enough, normally skint from the 2nd week of the month - but only as we go on a mini spending spree once the bills are paid

money worries sherlock?
I bet not.
we have a sebo too

IMO people spend what they have. In my case DP always spends it before he gets it, and I squirrel a bit away for rainy day money. You tend to hear that big earners end up sending kids to private school, have big Mercs, big houses/ mortgages, a nanny etc. all of these things they could downsize but perhaps choose not to.
Status is a funny thing. I found the threads here about middle classes wearing hand-me-downs, but working classes wearing designer stuff really interesting. What does class mean anymore anyway? I was born working class, my lifestyle now is middle class, but I still feel working class inside, with working class values and attitudes to money, spending, saving etc What does anyone think.?

I have a Dyson... but it needs repair and is on loan to the Preschool because we actually have a 2nd hoover.

Does that make us a really posh, being a 2-VC household?

Oh and no I don't have a Dyson. Bog standard Hoover. My MUM now has a Dyson though....

Enid

Are you sure

In betweeny is the best way of putting it, the mortgage still freaks me out even after 5 years of having it.