Is anyone else bored with this doom and gloom?

swiss69

I am so sick of all this doom and gloom on the economy....People moaning and groaning about house price falls, stockmarket falls, pound crashing, how we will all be eating dead rats and living in tents in a few years...blah blah blah...

Dont get me wrong, I have sympathy for genuine people who find hard times.

Businesses going bust when they have had it good for 15 years. Whats that all about? Didn't they ever anticipate a bad year?

We are so lucky to live in a country where food is plentiful, water is free and we are housed whether we can afford it or not.A country where you can have a good night out for a fiver in Wetherspoons (99p a bottle of San Miguel- good decision CEO of Wetherspoons).....Its not all bad.

I have had a good night tonight with a £4 bottle of plonk and a packet of crisps...easily pleased? Maybe! But I'm certainly not going to let all this doom get me down.

There are 365 days in a year and they soon pass by. Dont waste them by worrying about what might happen.

It doesnt matter if your house is worth 2p or 200 grand, its all irrelevant. Live life while you can and if you are thinking of staying in tomorrow beacuse you might lose your job in 6 months, dont! Get down to Wetherspoons and worry about it when you actually do lose your job!

davilown

swiss69 wrote: »

There are 365 days in a year and they soon pass by. Dont waste them by worrying about what might happen.

It doesnt matter if your house is worth 2p or 200 grand, its all irrelevant. Live life while you can and if you are thinking of staying in tomorrow beacuse you might lose your job in 6 months, dont! Get down to Wetherspoons and worry about it when you actually do lose your job!

I've seen enough in my very short lifespan so far to totally agree with you. Life is too short but we need to remember that some people do not have the same mindset as others. What you see as a positive can easily be viewed as a negative by another - Ask my oh, she'll tell you!:rotfl:

geoffky

when its like this it is important to take a break from of it all..spend a few days away as it will still be here when you get back..anyone going away in the holidays? i live for mine.....

davilown

geoffky wrote: »

when its like this it is important to take a break from of it all..spend a few days away as it will still be here when you get back..anyone going away in the holidays? i live for mine.....

Well I fancy a four month trip to afgan:D

hethmar

Yes, people need to get things in perspective - if you are reasonably well and happy then you should count your blessings.

fc123

I am too.
My seriously doomy, gloomy years were from 04 - 08. We had our own personal recession....and it was rubbish. Could have been seen as character building I guess...but it was still rubbish. Looking over the edge is never fun.

Now, I am joining on everyone elses doomy, gloomy, credit crunched moment..and it is affecting a part of our life too....but we are gaining on low int rates etc.

In the clothing/fashion sector as an indie retailer/producer, we've already had our crunching moments a few years back. The big guys shafting the manufacturers and going off shore for lots of fat margin, chains (esp the hated coffee shops) pushing up rental values to silly levels so that indies couldn't afford to trade alongside them anymore (our margins are a lot less) and price deflation...whereby the customer got used to ever lower prices year on year....to the point that the whole sector became benchmarked by Primark 'slave labour' product.
It created an expectation of price........a tee 'should' only cost 2 quid....cos 'that's wot Primark sell them for'. It pushed everything downwards....the race to the bottom.
Those of us who didn't join in the race, we were just being brave (and sometimes, we were in denial as it helped with the process).......and a few of us survived, not many, but some.

I have been through what many are going through now(or may go through in the future) like those employed in construction /EA/ banking etc.

My BIL has earnt healthy 6 fig salary for years in IT....now the cracks are appearing, downward pressure on his prices due to outsourcing to India etc. It looks like his industry is going to face similar pressures to mine over the coming decade. It's not fun....but it's bigger than us...you can't buck the market.
So, some decades you win, and others you lose...

Being on the losing side feels bad...but makes the feeling of being on the winning side even better. Through life, most of us experience both sides.

fc123

Oh Hethmar, I will answer the PM..only could summon up a few scraps of energy for the above therapy post tonight ;-)

fc123

geoffky wrote: »

when its like this it is important to take a break from of it all..spend a few days away as it will still be here when you get back..anyone going away in the holidays? i live for mine.....

We haven't had a hol since a week away in August 04. We don't get weekends either...just a 7 day treadmill (apart from Xmas day).
I will remove my hairshirt now....cos we are going to have a holiday.....in JAN 2010....and I can't wait!!!

davilown

Since I left home in 1997, I have been on '7' holidays. The first was a holiday my oh won for a carer of the year awards in 1998. We went to butlins for New year. Yes it was poor.
The second was a four month trip to bosnia. Lovely place, snow, beautiful scenery but shame abut the landmines.
Third was a very belated honeymoon for a week in corfu. in 2004
4th and 5th were to iraq - what joy!
6th was caravan in skegness - i need not say any more.
7th was a self drive to eurodisney with the the dd and ds (9 and 11) they loved it, we enjoyed it but it was a massive save inorder to go on it. no credit, cash only and this made it better for enjoyment purposes.

Vibrant

I agree, all the doom and gloom in the media and on the internet is tiring and hyped up.
I remember the big recession in the late seventies (or it could have been the early eighties, cant remember exactly), people were very frightened then and the papers went berserk (TV was more responsible in those days).

There were lots of scare stories about the country collapsing, etc, and we had to go to the IMF for money. But the only real effect it had on ordinary people, was if they lost their job, which was only really bad in some areas. After a while everyone got used to it and took little notice, my dad was made redundant three times, we pulled his leg, that companies weren't in trouble until he joined them.

This current crisis will blow over and I very much doubt that any of the dire predictions will come true. I have seen so many "experts" predicting doom, gloom and disaster over the years and they all have one thing in common. They all greatly exaggerate any problem.
Unfortunately nowadays the internet gives every loony tune a voice and the more established media is now so irresponsible, that it does its best to fan the flames.

dopester

Cheer up. Of the 5 house for sale on our street, there isn't a single one with an asking price of less than £300,000.

Standard semis on standard 1950s post-WW2 estate in the suburbs, in a neighbourhood of average earners, in the North.

Surely such magnificent optimism more than outshines the doom and gloom.