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A first-time buyer's story
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Austin_Allegro wrote: ȣ5,000 for a wedding?
Isn't the fee for a wedding and vicar something like £250?
!!!!!! who do they think they are, Posh and Becks?
The last wedding I went to was at the registrar office followed by a reception in the local scout hut with a cash bar and the groom's friend's band playing for free. We all had a great time so I don't see why people need to spend more if they can't really afford it.
Three years ago our registery office wedding and licence cost either £60 or £100, I can't remmeber, but it was cheap:o . Dh and i are just as married as anyone else, possibly more in love than many (and didn't go broke getting married.)0 -
This week, my savings went over to £21,000 :beer:
I am a midwife. I earn about £30k or thereabouts. I take home about £1700ish after student loan payments, tax, NI, pension payments. I am saving for a deposit, I've been working for nearly 3 years and paid off a LOT of debt and I don't understand how, on a joint salary, you cannot save £40k for a deposit, when I've saved half that amount on my own in two years. The couple in that article only live up the road from me; you can buy for less than they paid, you could ahve done even when they bought! It's why I haven't bought yet!
As for needing holidays, I don't think I've ever thought I 'needed' holidays but then I have been officially homeless and unable to buy food as I've been that poor before so maybe I just understand when to be grateful that I've got 'enough'.
clk299 - Congratulations on your savings and how you have been able to get yourself out of the difficult position regarding your homelessness. You must be very proud of yourself and with good reason might I say.
Keep up the good work!0 -
As for needing holidays, I don't think I've ever thought I 'needed' holidays but then I have been officially homeless and unable to buy food as I've been that poor before so maybe I just understand when to be grateful that I've got 'enough'.
I agree with you - holidays are great, but not a necessity. Holidays (along with the playstations they wanted to buy) are definintely in the "discretionary spending" part of anyone's budget - or should be!...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
Not sure about the holiday thing - I am starting to realise that holidays are an absolute necessity for me to retain my sanity. Spending the precious week of annual leave at home just doesn't cut it any more, a change being as good as a rest and all that. This doesn't mean that luxury foreign travel is anything other than that, a luxury.
DoI: Off to Cornwall next week, for a MUCH needed holiday.0 -
You don't necessarily have to pay to go on holiday, though - go and stay with parents / g-parents / god-parents / best mate / cousin Mary etc.
Or one of those collect-vouchers-for-a-caravan deals.
We are going to Cornwall on Monday as well! By train. Hope the weather's good for surfing!
We were going to go for a week, but the <expletive deleted> Asylum & Immigration Tribunal stuck one of my cases in at little notice for a week tomorrow, and won't move it. :mad:...much enquiry having been made concerning a gentleman, who had quitted a company where Johnson was, and no information being obtained; at last Johnson observed, that 'he did not care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the gentleman was an attorney'.0 -
neverdespairgirl wrote: »Or one of those collect-vouchers-for-a-caravan deals.
Hi
where can I find out about this?:j Where there is a will there is a way - there is a way and I will find it :j0 -
Maybe I'll see you on the train, NDG. If you see a thirty-something woman acting like an overexcited child, that'll be me.0
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neverdespairgirl wrote: »I agree with you - holidays are great, but not a necessity. Holidays (along with the playstations they wanted to buy) are definintely in the "discretionary spending" part of anyone's budget - or should be!
playstation????????????
Whats that all about???
Its an X-box is what he needs the big daft pervert0
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