Great 'Recession Survival Tips' Hunt

Thrifty_2

Sue-UU wrote: »

Good luck and cuddle up more with the ones you love, it's they that'll help you as much as anything else.

Sue

But nobody loves me:(

cheap_charlie

Thrifty wrote: »

We can expect you to be giving your heating allowance to those less well off than yourself then can we.

How disrespectful.

This person is entitled to their opinion and their heating allowance - at the age of 80 they have earned it as far as I am concerned.

Thrifty_2

cheap_charlie wrote: »

How disrespectful.

This person is entitled to their opinion and their heating allowance - at the age of 80 they have earned it as far as I am concerned.

And i am entitled to my opinion "End Of"

freeisgood

Actually Oldandwise, you are not being very respectful. How can you say that just because the ressession is not affecting you, that it shouldnt affect other people?
EG: people with young children who have just lost their jobs, and have many mouths to feed. Life was tough then, but it is tough now in different ways. Mortgages, rents are at record highs and so is everything else. People many years ago had huge family networks to support them, shared accommodation with other family members etc. This is very rare now.

Thrifty_2

WELL SAID freeisgood:T

climbingoutoftheabyss

Grow your own.

Even a small patio or balcony can be home to tomato's, peppers, cucumbers.

I'm fortunate, I've got an allotment and I've actually either sold or swapped produce worth over a hundred pounds. (I swap some with a neighbour who owns a pig farm for sausages and bacon :beer:)

But thats an extreme, and even small gardens have room.

Give it a try in the spring, have a go at growing some runner beans, or peas, or potato's, or salad. It tastes better than the shops, you don't have far to get it and its cheaper.

One example, I grow mixed lettuce leaves (the sort you buy in bags at the supermarket), I've estimated we picked and ate the equivalent of more than 100 bags from one row of lettuce that could be accomodated in any small garden (and it looks good)

Growing your own is cheaper, healthier, better for the environment - in fact there are loads of good reasons to do it and none to not do it.

Not only that, the kids love doing it and it encourages them to eat healthily!

Go on, give it a go :j

milliemonster

completely agree with freeisgood, mortgages and rents now are an enormous chunk of people's incomes, socially we don't live in 'communities' anymore where there are family and friends locally who can look after children while we work so we have to pay for childcare, also we need cars to get to work as most people have to commute now to work (if they have a job!) and don't work down the street in the local pit/factory etc and public transport is diabolical.

DirectDebacle

oldandwise wrote: »

I am appalled at the tone of these tips and so on. I am almost eighty and have yet to see anything to panic about, unless, of course, you are living beyond your means. I have never had any ill effects from these so called recessions. This is par for the course we have had these ups and downs for my entire life and if you live on what you earn and don't get into debt there is no problem. If you can't afford it go without, you probably don't need it anyway. Living throuh a war teaches you how to cope.

The above is sound advice and I read nothing disrespectful in it.

That's a surprising comment, given that many older folk say that they are being forced to choose between heating and eating.

I suppose your evidence for this is one elderly person featured on a news clip or newspaper article designed to whip up hysteria rather than report facts.

We can expect you to be giving your heating allowance to those less well off than yourself then can we.

By the same logic you would also require families who do not need child allowance to give that up to the less well off or those that benefitted from the 10p tax fiasco to donate their gains to those that still lost out.

But nobody loves me

Now there is a surprise.

And i am entitled to my opinion "End Of"

Let's hope so.

Oldandwise gives sound advice and is ridiculed for it. Shame on you. Icing on the cake is the poster with £40 grands worth of credit card debt.

......and if you live on what you earn and don't get into debt there is no problem. If you can't afford it go without, you probably don't need it anyway

Is there a ring of truth in there somewhere?

Sue-UU

woohoo_postingid wrote: »

Obviously now would be an expensive time to have children, but of course we all want the fun that goes into making one, therefore don't buy expensive ribbed condoms, just buy cheaper standard ones and chuck a handful of frozen peas in before use

Am I missing something here or would frozen peas put in a condom not a cool a fella's ardour anyway.:shocked: Not sure I'd fancy freezing little bullets ...well, you know where, either!!! :eek: It'd be like making love to a gritter straight after working on the lorries!!! _pale_ Talk about passion killers.

Sue (still thinking that through:think:)

chickflick

I think theses tips are useful. Thank you everyone