RICH HOUSE POOR HOUSE S12 - sun 9pm ch 5 - TV PACE NO SPOILERS

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Love this series. Back next Sunday

tho the rich families who own their own business etc - I hope they don’t do the usual ‘free training’ to the poorer families and then get them to start their own companies

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kettle broken. Can buy a new one off Argos.eBay for £10 or less or a base /plug for £2/3

£11k debts 🙀🙀🙀

both has nice nails/infills so that’s £30 each every 3w or so

Eating cow foot stew - with hands - kinda messy ?

£500 for a wig
£400 tickets vip racing

I clocked the cow foot stew (bleurgh) but didn't clock the nails or range rover. It beggars belief.

That “poor” family were not poor. If they gave a shit about their debts they would sell that car - they’d be able to pay off the debts and still have enough money for a cheap car.

And no way do they live off £50 a week. Would that include petrol for the gas guzzler too? Load of shite

I always notice nails. Mainly as I have done £30 every 3w so £10 a week

but I’m not bleating on saying so poor I can’t buy a £10 kettle or put money away for a washing machine

but the Land Rover. Wow. That’s a big expense

I hope she has all the food hygiene needed to sell food

yes I hope she makes a go of it - but seems too good to be true

I wonder why these rich people come on. Is it a tax break. Giving away £100k

Well excatly

I know caring doesn’t pay lots. Have friends as carers but to as say so poor they can’t afford a kettle is insane

@Blondeshavemorefun this

I hope she has all the food hygiene needed to sell food

Why on earth would they invest £100k on someone with no catering experience, no business experience and catering qualifications. It doesn’t make sense

I hope for boat guy no one got ill from the dodgy BBQ on his premises

next week looks a bit more promising for old rich house poor house

They are showing old ones again ?

was last night end of series then

No it's still the current series

The poster just meant that it looks like it'll be better and more like the old style

Ah tho just looked on sky planner and next week it’s snooker ffs

Ah yes sorry I meant it looked like they were going back to an actual family with children rather than 2 adults blowing £1.5k on themselves

oh yes is new series still I think but not on next week

That’s what it should be. Like for like famillies

so rich kids having own bedroom
having to share etc in poor house

Used to love this but it's rubbish now. The families seem to be poor by choice, "dad Paul works 12 hours a week as a mobile mechanic and Mum Julie gave up work 3 years ago when Poppy-May was born and now can't afford to work as childcare is too expensive. They have £23k in debt and can't see a way forward". The house then shows a beautifully decorated house with all the latest matching furniture. They always say they'd love to work more but then they'd miss out on family time! Welcome to the real world 🤔

Or they can’t afford childcare yet as on uc it will be paid for

unlike most famillies who lost 1/2 their income paying for childcare

seem to be so many families part time. Work full time

and if need be get a second job

or the ones who look after kids - but can’t then get an evening job stacking shelves /working in a pub /macdonalds /care home /cleaning etc

people don’t want to work more and then lose some of their uc - but would earn more

prefer to stay poorer

i really feel sometimes that uc should only be paid if a parent works

not including those with Sen kids

Yes and they nearly always interview the poor mum's mother, who always swears that they are such hard workers but can't seem to get a break in life and she's so worried about them getting burnt out, from all 16 hours of work a week between the couple.

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Well to be fair that's always been the case with this programme

What gets me is the stupid excuses for the poor family living in a shit tip.

“the garden has piles of rubbish because they can’t afford a skip”. Camera pans to a collection of items which could be easily taken by car to a tip.

“we’d live to decorate but we can’t afford to” camera pans to wallpaper hanging off the wall - it’s free to remove the wallpaper and would cost around £20 for a tin of paint 🙄

Back in the day when it first aired it wasn't the case. The rich family were old-ish money and lived in stately home type places and the poor family was a genuinely struggling single mum who actually went to work, or one of the parents was disabled and unable to work. The rich family used to donate heavily to the poor family, I recall in one episode a cheque for £25k being given to the poor mum for a flat deposit. The rich kids used to love going to the poor family's house as they had "a TV in every room!" or Xboxes, whereas the rich family had a 3 acre garden but 200 year old furniture that the poor family hated. Much more entertaining and interesting to watch.

There was an episode once where the garden was a tip with furniture and old white goods and the rich dad made his family walk to the local tip carrying the stuff. He was a lecturer in Bristol university and said he had grown up in a house like that and that the shame had never left him, so wanted to do it for the DC of the poor family.

I've watched it from the beginning so I know what it was and is like

In the first ones though for quite a while no rich family gave anything. Then I think one rich family were lovely and donated something and gradually it became incorporated into the programme and now it's basically a pre-requisite of them going on

So if he could walk to the tip why wouldn’t the poor family have done that? Seems to me the producers have deliberately picked families that would create a bit of annoyance amongst viewers this season

That was in a previous series

ah I see what you mean, same thing stands though, no reason the poor family had to leave all that rubbish piled up when they have a car

Oh yes this was years ago, maybe as much as 10 years. They do definitely choose them and stage scenes. There was a poor family once where the wife was a cleaner and the husband didn't work, he collected expensive tropical aquariums and he got a lot of stick online about it. There was a thread on here and he posted on it saying the show is scripted from the beginning to the end, you don't get to choose what to do with the spending money and the production team make up scenarios to make good TV.