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Britain's Secret Spending

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ImperialBlether · 19/08/2015 21:28

Anyone watching this?

I've already spotted someone I bet is a MNetter! Step up and reveal yourself!

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BeatrixVBurgund · 20/08/2015 14:38

I spend £15 a week just on DD's piano lesson, so that doesn't seem high to me. I worked it out per week, not school weeks - so that does make a difference.

I think folk should spend what they have how they want to. If that is a trampoline for the garden, at least it means the kids are out having fun, jumping around.

I agree that she was a sneery about the other family's spending habits, but that went both ways, didn't it?

MTWTFSS · 20/08/2015 14:48

I just wanted to slap Charlotte (fancy fridge lady). FFS loads of people come from simple backgrounds, then go on to achieve great things!

waitaminutenow · 20/08/2015 15:10

My dd is 2.5 and we spend over 100 a term on her activities but the point is im not in an overdraft because of it. If I was I wouldn't do it....Each to their own I suppose.

VivaLeBeaver · 20/08/2015 15:37

I'd have no problem with either a bloke or a woman not working while their dp does as long as they weren't such an arrogant, condescending arse.

I mean when he said he aspired to private education and ski holidays I got the impression he'd never skiied before and wasn't that fussed about it but just thought that that's what they should be doing to impress others.

And if he wants his kids to have a private education (which I got the impression they can't afford yet) then he needs to pull his finger out his arse and earn some money.

Not spend his days playing pool and drinking expensive coffee while been a twat about how "you get a better class of sales assistants in waitrose compared to asda". Mmmm, no you don't. And I shop in every supermarket under the sun from Lidl to Asda to waitrose to booths! If he said he preferred waitrose because the olives are nicer or there's more choice of Parma ham then fair enough. But I see it was a tesco delivery lorry that delivered their main shop!

Nettletheelf · 20/08/2015 19:34

Wasn't the cocklodger AWFUL?

I wondered why his poor bloody wife had to do the online shop. Why not him, the idle bar steward?

You could tell that the dad of 4 absolutely hated him. So did we. DH and I were saying, "go on, smack him!"

The woman who lived in the hotel and employed the lickspittle stylist was in danger of spunking all her money, I thought. Her business might be 'worth' £2m, but valuations of private companies are highly subjective. Just look at Dragons' Den. She is a middle man between bloggers and companies who want to advertise; she's made some money from it, but it's hardly a secure profession. I was thinking, "for christ's sake, save some of your cash!"

As for the bloke who denied that Eton was posh and that there was no such thing as an old boys' network...he was almost as bad as the cocklodger. He came out with the usual old bollocks: he's not really buying privilege for his dopey looking sons. No, it's the fault of all the non-public schools for not being as good as Eton. Twat.

I shall, of course, be watching the entire series avidly.

TheDietStartsTomorrow · 20/08/2015 19:36

I think the 4childfamily lady has the right idea about giving children activities and a trampoline to jump about on instead of letting them be glued to a screen all day. But she did seem very bitter and resentful of the other family. I don't think she's happy at all and I think as a family they need to make some lifestyle changes to address that. She looked like she was going to burst into tears on a number of occasions.

The hotel living entrepreneur seemed too caught up in living in the moment. But hey, its her money, she earned it and she's happy so I don't see a problem with it.

The cocklodger was an utter arse. One of the most irritating people on the show. Or maybe The Most. Or should go to the fridge girl. She was also very resentful and extremely immature. I felt sorry for her though. Pity. She has so much to learn and a woman on benefits looking to live like the Kardashians is never going to find contentment. She'll spend all her life eyeing others lifestyle.

The rest were all okay. The Baroness was nice but she honestly should have used a new pair of tights for her marmalade. If I was Anne Robinson I would have involuntarily pulled a face at that one.

The millionaire and the eco families were okay. But I agree the eco family are fooling themselves really. They're also quite materialistic but in a different way.

Having given my tuppence on all of them and been one of those people who is secretive about their own money but is occasionally secretly nosey about others spend, I can say that I'm sure there'd be some eyebrows raised if I was on the show. We are also a family on tax credits but do have an foreign holiday every year. I We do work hard throughout the year and we both work in the service sector but I also find it hard to justify that one luxury to others which is why I am so secretive about it.

Nettletheelf · 20/08/2015 19:38

Oh yeah, and did anybody else notice that Alfie Best's sitting room was basically a giant caravan? Bench seats and a low roof in pastel colours. Good luck to him if that's what he likes, but we wondered whether that's why he liked the house.

VivaLeBeaver · 20/08/2015 19:48

I think the hotel woman was full of shit to be honest.

Wanted to get on the programme for a bit of self publicity for her business. And sure enough there's a big article about her and her business in the DM today.

I reckon she booked the hotel for one night, the dodgy stylist was a friend and those clothes were taken back once the cameras stopped rolling.

ilovechristmas123 · 20/08/2015 20:21

i didnt realise "Richmond sausages" were a quality product

somebody needs to tell her they are rank rank rank

WorktoLive · 20/08/2015 20:37

Richmond sausages are so not a quality product. Their USP is that they contain no meat texture whatsoever. Meat for people who don't want to think about what meat is.

Always on offer somewhere so they can pretend that they are a decent branded item for people who like that sort of thing.

Nettletheelf · 20/08/2015 20:39

We laughed at the Richmond sausages too.

I've often wondered who buys kardashian branded stuff. Now I know!

BTW I've met several of the senior team at Brighthouse (surely where she got the magic fridge?) and Shop Direct (formerly Littlewoods). I won't say how, because I'll out myself. Both sell on credit with big APRs but they claim that their mission is "to help our customers to enjoy nice things". As if they were a social enterprise. As opposed to being greedy scalpers exploiting the poor, for the avoidance of doubt.

VivaLeBeaver · 20/08/2015 20:41

I love Richmond sausages! Blush

ilovechristmas123 · 20/08/2015 20:48

i used to love a cold sausage from the fridge,anyway i bought some richmond ones and cooked and put the ones uneaten in the fridge

i decided i had a fancy for one,omg the smell was rank,smelled of old lard

cant even look at them in the shops

its ironic how she has a big fridge but has nothing in it

Fluffycloudland77 · 20/08/2015 20:55

So glad everyone else thought he was a cocklodger too. I thought it was just me.

I think hotel girl is a prime riches to rags story waiting to happen.

ilovechristmas123 · 20/08/2015 20:58

im sure the hotel girl is featured in the DM online today

ilovechristmas123 · 20/08/2015 21:03

yeah it says her company is worth 10 million Shock

good for her,she has only herself to support she should joy it while she can

poorincashrichinlove · 20/08/2015 21:35

So we're all aspirational, but some of us have more to prove than others. Who knew?

chaiselounger · 20/08/2015 21:40

Agree with most points.
Struggling but spending 2.5k on activities. On please!
He wanted his kids to go to private school, But was a total lazy ass doing nothing for his business's apart from drinking Starbucks.

AnthonyPandy · 21/08/2015 00:18

I, of course, never read the Daily Wail. Never.

But they have an article about the woman with her own £2 million/£10 million company and this is one of the comments:

'The company reg number on her website 08623769 shows it incorporated as Fabtips Limited so Fabtrade is just the trading name. The reported accounts show it has a net worth of -£11,572. It is a fledgling newly registered company July 2013 and would NEVER be valued at £10 million. This lady is a fake. A simple company house check confirms what a national newspaper and the BBC could not achieve. How worrying!'

VivaLeBeaver · 21/08/2015 00:26

Said she was full of shit.

TeaAddict235 · 21/08/2015 14:06

so has the hotel spender girl been rumbled? is she not really the owner of a multimillion company?

I felt so sorry for the 4children mum having to hold her tongue with the workshy Dad. He wanted an extra £50k, but his wife ALREADY leaves the house at 5:30am; according to his grand master plan, she might'nt come home at all, just keep working through the night Hmm so that he can keep his man shed and app

Grauniad · 21/08/2015 21:51

Hold on with the comments about the workshy wanker dad.

I earn not much more (around £15k to his £10k, did he say?). DH earns the bulk of our income. He still does the shopping.

I'm not that much of a wanker though.

AnthonyPandy · 21/08/2015 23:23

Yes, but do you play pool in the day and drink £150 worth of costa coffee per month while moaning that the amount your spouse earns is not enough to send your kids to private school?!

TheDietStartsTomorrow · 22/08/2015 00:12

And as the stay at home parent do you entertain your DC by sitting them in front of the screen all day and pooh pooh at others who despite being less off, engage their children in activities and sports after school to allow them to develop their interests? Then turn around and say your aspiration is to send them to private school?

Fluffycloudland77 · 22/08/2015 09:39

When they said starbucks dad was leaving the family home my first thought was "she's fucked him off, good for you love".

Then I realised it was part of the show.

If you hired a career coach or whatever you'd want them to have a stellar career themselves.