We All Want Our Own Homes!

Pobby

No the more I read the rants of pickledpink the more I am becoming convinced that he is Bruno

http://housingfear.blogspot.com/2008/07/bruno-powroznik-was-arrested-by-london.html

Generali

Pobby wrote: »

No the more I read the rants of pickledpink the more I am becoming convinced that he is Bruno

http://housingfear.blogspot.com/2008/07/bruno-powroznik-was-arrested-by-london.html

Word on the street is that Bruno is posting under a different name on here.

GracieP

charlie_r wrote: »

twenty pounds a week for a schoolboy is stupid no schoolboy earns that. twenty pouns a week for her husband is reasonable because he and she are probably on twenty pound a week budgets its good money saving.

Yup, my OH is well aware that he is utterly crap when it comes to money and leaves the budgeting to me. He has £20 a week to spend on stuff like newspapers, chocolate/crisps or the occasional bought lunch. We have a separate disposable allocation for meals out, clothing and trips to the cinema, etc. We also have separate savings accounts where we have a long-term fund and short-term savings for things like holidays, a new tv/laptop if they need replacing or a pram and cot if my mousey husband can get me knocked up.

And no PP, I don't have a tumble dryer. I have a retractable clothes line that I got in Aldi for £2.49 and 200 pegs from the pound shop. Yet my laundry gets dry and I find a way to live with the shame. Would you like to make fun of my inability to work out my basal body temperature now?

wymondham

GracieP wrote: »

He has £20 a week to spend on stuff like newspapers, chocolate/crisps or the occasional bought lunch.

Lucky guy - £20 a week chocolate money .... if you tire of him let me know Gracie!!!

GracieP

wymondham wrote: »

Lucky guy - £20 a week chocolate money .... if you tire of him let me know Gracie!!!

He earns it.

GDB2222

GracieP wrote: »

We also have separate savings accounts where we have a long-term fund and short-term savings for things like holidays, a new tv/laptop if they need replacing or a pram and cot if my mousey husband can get me knocked up.

Thank you so much for that insight I was :rotfl:

LillyJ

charlie_r wrote: »

according to you i m ust be scum
i live in a rented property i own a bike my father is disabled and i live with him we buy mostly own brand products because allthough we were verry well educated he does not earn a lot i earn very little. i enjoy walking to shops not siting in a fiberglass box (a car) that i bought with money i could use to enjoy my life.
you pinky sound to me like teh kind of guy that likes to pretend everything thats why there are leprichorns in your bath and 6ft tall blonde women walking around your garden right.:eek:

I own my own house and don't earn too little but I still buy own brands - if you like the taste of them and they are cheaper, it only makes sense to me!

On the point of tumble dryers, we have one, but it is a 2nd hand one from the Heart Foundation electrical charity shop. We don't use it much, I have a big rotary airer at the bottom of the garden which I use whenever the weather allows. Tumble dryers are bad for the environment, and are so not a marker of sophistication, in any way shape or form. They are just a way of drying your clothes. Our is pretty old and lives in the garage cos it is a bit ugly and don't want it in the kitchen.

We also have a second hand freezer in the garage, that we got from a neighbour. It doesn't mean we couldn't afford a freezer from new, just that it seems silly to throw stuff away that can be used again. Again, it is better for the environment as well.

PickledPink what do you do for a living? Can I guess it isn't customer facing? I can't imagine you pulling in the punters some how. There are lots of people on here that likely earn more than you but don't own there own homes. There are also people that do own their own home. One isn't better than the other, it is personal choice. I love owning my home but that is due to my individual circumstances and priorities. To suggest you are better than everyone because your house is worth half a million is rather sad indeed, and the fact that you brag about a couple of hundred quid tumble dryer even sadder.

Get over it and start enjoying your place for what it is, your home, rather than some sort of status symbol.

Lucky you being mortgage free, start enjoying it rather than parading it around like a prize. Hard work does get you places, yes, but to assume others don't work hard is patronising and silly.

I work very hard, and earn a reasonable amount. A friend of mine who is a staff nurse at the Children's Hospital works equally as hard, and has to put up with a pile of cr*p at work, and gets paid a pittance for what she does.

Price of house does NOT = strength of work ethic.

charlie_r_3

GDB2222 wrote: »

Thank you so much for that insight I was :rotfl:

zomg to much info lol durex must hate you:p

charlie_r_3

we dont have a tumble drier aswell i live on teh third floor (with a disabled man its fun lol ) its breezy enought to dry our clothes in a hour or so

Nenen

LillyJ wrote: »

You have some points, but really you make out like home ownership in general is some sort of hideous affliction that is to be avoided at all costs and will make your life somehow more miserable.

The vast majority of people will NOT be affected by negative equity (ie didn't buy in last few years, had large deposit etc), or will be in negative equity, but will come out the other side unscathed, maybe never even knowing (nor caring) what level the "value" of their house dropped to.

Most of my friend's parents live in the same houses that they lived in when they were kids over 20 years ago, they haven't all been forced to move through some sort of terrible life drama that people on here seem to assume everyone goes through.

I quite agree with you LillyJ and we will be buying our own house again when the time/price is right for us... I just couldn't resist being very tongue-in-cheek and playing devil's advocate to dickleddinky's 'house prices can only ever go up and anyone who doesn't agree with me is a moron and/or a lazy scrounger' stance!

However, I really needn't have bothered, he doesn't need my help to make him look an absolute

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(fill in word of your choice) as he's doing that very well himself!