Rich house poor house wed ch5 9pm

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Two families swap lives for a week. Total opposites in the life styles

the richest 10% and a family who live on the breadline

I really enjoy this, watched all the other series.

I get it isn't the point but I never understand why the rich family don't do something nice for the poor family more often

The only time I have seen something nice was the family who brought the mum a wheelchair

Usually the money the rich family have for a week is insane and like a thousand pounds so £50k a year

Yeah I'd love to see their sums - but I guess if you earn 100k then once the bills are paid, it really is that much just purple rarely pull it out as cash.

I saw a guy who did so house stuff - put a door back on, got an old sofa removed. Nothing huge but it was "well I can do this, and this will be a small help so why wouldn't I"

Oh that’s right. They got the garden cleared

I find it incredibly uncomfortable viewing.

The guy who cleared the garden also had the door on the washing machine fixed. At the end his kids all said it had made them appreciate how fortunate they are. If the programme achieves nothing else then that’s always a good thing.

That's it, I've never seen the "rich" kids come back anything but humbled and the "poor" going ok, there's another life out there. Many of the "rich" families are self made which I think also makes a difference. There was a women who grew up on the same estate practically

I don't watch this, but 2 of the families were on Radio4 today - seems like the "rich" family did something very nice indeed (don't want to post a spoiler and upset anybody).

I enjoyed the last series. Like all these things it can be a bit staged at times but I think it's reasonably kindly done and helps realise the lives of others. I remember the sofa moving episode. The rich family carried it to the local tip having broken it into pieces and I was thinking well anyone would have done that - what stopped the "poor" family doing that, it cost nothing but they preferred just to leave the sofa in their front garden. Well it certainly makes you think.

I think the difference is the poor Dad worked and just hadn't had the time, rich dad was just sitting round the house. Sometimes as well things become so normalised that you don't see them. So an old sofa outside is nothing because lots of people do that, but actually it disappearing and you not having to expand the mental energy on it makes a difference. Think rich kids were older too re helping carry it

I do sometimes think that it’s harder on the poor family wsp the children

To go and live in a nice house and have things hey would never have

Then taken away

Tho I think it’s good for rich kids to see how some families struggle and have to survive on a small budget

Hopefully they will have the same number of children so that the rich kids probably have to share a bedroom

Any guesses on what the rich family do for the poor family? I don’t know what it is me and DH are speculating

There’s a lot of talk about the debt, maybe it’s to do with that?

I find this programme interesting. It doesn’t feel as if anyone is being taken advantage of.

In tears ....

I'm crying! What a life changing gesture.

I don't really like the concept of the show but in fairness, they always choose really nice families and it's nice to see such human kindness. I do feel sorry for the poor kids though to have a week of whatever they want and then back to what they can't have

Bawling here...what a gesture from the vets, they're both lovely families too.

Yep - easily the nicest families on there so far!

I'll come back tomorrow when I've seen it...

2 lovely families. What a nice gesture, it will turn their lives around. Good for the rich kids to see that financial good luck isn’t linear to working hard.

What a moving programme tonight. Well worth watching.

We got a letter through our door asking us if we wanted to do this (presumably as poor family) just after (as in a few days after) there was a well-publicised and unpleasant drug related murder on our road, which presumably flagged it up as a grim area. Charming.

Ok that's not great I agree.
I hadn't watched this show before and for some reason I was expecting the "rich" family to be very wealthy, perhaps brand driven or flash or wasteful in some way when in fact they were both very similar kind loving families with strong values who just happened, by circumstance, to have different financial situations. Of course this was the point and I found the whole thing very touching. The "rich" family were not flash in any way but just had no conception that even boiling the kettle could be a cause of stress in terms of watching the credit on the electricity run down by a few pence etc. The outcome was great and it has really made me think.

To be fair I haven't watched the show, so I'm glad to hear that the eventual product is more tasteful than their recruitment! I was horrified at the crassness, DH was insulted - 'but we have a bread maker!'

That's an odd recruitment technique!! Ok for the rich family but it's precarious conjecture to do it in less well off estates surely!

I always wonder what happens to any money left over?