MMR 4: The Walker Family

MSE_Martin

Please use this thread to discuss Make Me Rich episode 4, the Walker Family.

Read programme notes

giggs11

Just wanted to mention that the links to your blog on the programme notes page don't link to the right families

intel

I hope your wearing shorts in that tub... :rotfl:

P.S Will there be any normal income famillies on the show.

giggs11

Great programme well done :T

Bogof_Babe

Martin, do try to ungrit your teeth when you mention the ITV/Money website .

MSE_Jenny

giggs11 wrote:

Just wanted to mention that the links to your blog on the programme notes page don't link to the right families

Thanks for pointing that out. The links should be fine now.

MSE_Martin

Normal INcome families?

Yesterday jenny cross's income was £12,000 a year. There's a mix across the programmes. The average UK salary is £24,000. We stretch from £12k to £60k (between two) so its roughly mixed with the average.

Remember the key to the programme is more about the 'ways to save' than the specific families. Hopefully the higher numbers encourage people.

intel

MSE_Martin wrote:

Normal INcome families?
Yesterday jenny cross's income was £12,000 a year.

Even 12000 is a lot where I am, if anybody earns that in my area
thats considered rich, I suppose its area by area.

trigger_mike

i made the mistake of buying a new car on fiance and lost a fortune
Cost of car £8675
Despot £2000
Payment £126 x 14 Months @ 6% APR & 10,000 miles later
Sold car £5700 = Me a bit wiser never to do that again.

jo_b_2

Best programme so far - purely because we got to see Martin in a jacuzzi!

The money saving advice wasn't bad either!

Fran

MSE_Martin wrote:

........Remember the key to the programme is more about the 'ways to save' than the specific families. Hopefully the higher numbers encourage people.

That might be the programme makers' intentions but really we are all nosey b******s and are much more interested in what people's bedrooms and kitchens look like and how much they earn. :snow_laug But the amounts of savings involved can't fail to interest people I would have thought.

BENEFITS!
This is a vast area where people don't claim what they could. A lot are put off like Mrs. Walker said by the forms or the stigma attached to claiming. Most people though live within reach of a Citizens Advice Bureau or other welfare benefits or disability organisations and can get help filling them in.

:rudolf: