RICH HOUSE POOR HOUSE - s11 - sun 9pm ch5 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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Back next Sunday. Yah. Do like this

Tho hope it won't be the usual look at us.

So rich.

We will give you lessons and be rich /start own company

Like the last 2-3 series have been

I was pleasantly surprised when I read it was yet another property developer. The pairing of the football TikTok star and the footballing girls was nice. Interesting to see she needed to invest to make money long term - seemed genuine unlike last weeks.

It's always property 😂

The thing is that fibro causes exhaustion and you have to pace yourself very carefully. So it may well be that if she pushed herself by doing more hours, she would have a flare up and be so exhausted she wouldn't be able to work the limited amount she does now.

I took early retirement ( self employed so not got early retirement on health grounds from a pension scheme) from work just over a year ago as I was hanging on by my fingertips. It has taken me most of a year to gain any kind of equilibrium and I still struggle. I can push myself but then I need a few days recovery. I can't repeatedly push myself without completely crashing.

I lost my emoji!

E3 tonight

Two famillies in West Yorkshire at opposite ends

Both believe money doesn't buy happiness but will they feel the same after the swap

I agree with that but it gives you choices and security

Watching behind due to everything being on at 9pm

Nice sofas and not property for once

How did poor family get theirselves into so much debt 🥲

11k loan and over £1000 owed on electricity

Rich man think pete didn't get budgeting with bottle of red wine. Very costly olive oil and only eggs to eat 😂

Did no one watch it ?

I watched it. I thought it was much better and more worthwhile than most of them have been.

What I did like was the admirable 'sustainable furniture business' which refurbished and recycled old sofas.

I mean, they actually made all their money when they binned off the idea of recycling stuff and started getting new stuff made to look like it's old instead, but still... 😂

I’m not entirely sure what the rich people got out of it? Just optics for their business? Do they really shift 200 sofas a week/month (whatever it was)? I’d never heard of them. I know the poor people are directed what to buy but I’d have bought some curtains and lampshade for my bedroom instead of spunking £600 on designer clothes that looks just like his regular clothes.

I watched one episode of Rich House Poor House, only to discover that the 'poor house ' was in a street very close to where I grew up (oh, the shame!!!!)

I've had a poor house near me

Not sure really

Esp if tech costs them £2k of their weekly money unless the show pays for it

I’d imagine the show pays which is why it is capped at 2k?

As to why the poor get themselves into heavy debt they generally get worse rates so a loan for a car could easily end up being double what they originally took out and it can become unmanageable very quickly. Especially on zero hour contracts or jobs that only pay SSP. That said, it is often very easy for anyone to take on debt and get in a tight spot that you realistically just can’t get back out of.

But often they are part time or have another child /young baby

Don't have kids if can't afford them as in can't afford to pay electricity bill qns in to 1000 debt

E4 tonight

Naim and sarah Manor House owners swap lives with single mum Leah in her council house

The manor /wedding house is omfg

Wish they did swaps like for like though

So same number of kids /single parent /couple etx

Just watched episode 3

I really liked the settees they gave them

I'm confused... It said at the beginning she was bringing her dad and her dad was going to look after the children... And yet there was no sign of the children whatsoever!....

At no point in the programme has it explained why the 'poor' mum doesn't work...

The 'cafe' business won't amount to anything. Not until she's serious about it.
And I don't think she is.

I think the RHPH narrator meant the children's father was going to look after them.

Oh ok

Yes the kids dad was having them

Prob the only break mum would get without her kids

Wish they did like for like swaps

Poor kids v rich kids

Tho maybe for some poor kids to have a wonderful week worh lots of money is too much

But I think it's good for Rich kids to have to share a bedroom for 5 days

I enjoy the show nonetheless but from reading other (non-mumsnet) threads about the show, it has occurred to me that there is kind of a wealth porn/poverty porn angle to RHPH tbqh.

I'm not really sure what you mean by wealth/poverty porn in this instance?