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???

That happened to my Mum's car too Enid, deeply frustrating.

we can't open any windows in ours! 26 degrees outside today!

pmsl! that sucks!!

No, your dirt devil sucks

also couldnt work out why I kept getting a flat front left tyre, turns out the alloy is knackered and I need a whole new wheel

I have a Dyson and a hand held dirt devil (somewhere) does that make me posh poor

When we had out first house we had the cheapest cylinder that picked nothing up and the rented house we were in had cream shagpile carpets.

i used to have a car i bought for $50. i couldn't get out of the drivers side, the tyres were bald, the exhaust was shot and every time a rust hole would appear, i put a surf sticker over it. that's the one i got fined for.

I once saw a Nissan Micra for sale for the grand sum of £10 , that was about 6 years ago, it had an MOT and everything !!!!

you should have bought it!

I soooooooo, wish I had. That was the ultimate bargain.

surf stickers

pmsl

yes. i was such a poser.

My dad bought a car for £50 once my new trainers cost £60 at the time, he ran it for a year before it broke down and got £45 at the scrapyard for it.

Makes you think doens't it?

DC, how can you be a poser in a car that lloks like it was crocheted ?!

looks

it certainly does. the problems i described came late in ownership. before that i drove it all over america and canada and it ran great for over two years.

ndp - i fancied myself as a bit of ski-bum.

awwwwwwwwwww.I always fancied myself as a bit of a surfy chick. Let down significantly by my total lack of surfing skills

...the fact that the car was so knackered was considered cool. my my aren't those days gone now eh.

pipe & slippers, grandpa ?

hmmm feels that way .. i've got to run. see y'all later...

can I just mention that dh has a super whizzy car that he loves but somehow feels that my shite car is 'perfect' for a part time working mum of two

Nose to the grindstone.

lol bit like me then Enid Ive got a super whizzy bike that cost twice as much to FIX as dps bike and dds child seat cost to buy (child seat cost nearly as much as the bike too)

(have to say tho taht dps record on keeping bikes is very poor so kinda justified.....something to do with leaving them outside the pub without locking them......tho those days are pretty much over now)

Oh bother I missed the hoover discussion bit. Would have been the perfect time to mention that my sister has 2 dysons, one for upstairs and one for downstairs. I'm serious. So that she doesn't have to carry one about.