Thread for the Uber Frugals..... Complete an SOA and lets see how we compare...

mbga9pgf

I do buy presents for people, I prefer not receive them, and for the past few years have asked for a card. If anyone wants to offer a present, I usually ask them to donate to the International Red Cross.

About the only charity I see doing genuine, good work whilst I am away, and an organization that doesnt have its execs on the scam making a fortune out of peoples donations.

My wife and I value the time we have together.

As for my above comments; I couldnt give a !!!! if they are patronizing comments; people need to wake up to the face the fact they get their !!!! wiped by the state and are very lucky. I think its a situation that will change significantly over the medium term, it has to...

Perhaps then we can get back to living as a community and helping each other out instead of selfish "want want want" and only caring what happens to you and your close family.

Cleaver

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Saving for a 40% deposit

Well, I hope the house lives up the expectation.

ad9898_3

mbga9pgf wrote: »

Complete trot. Consumerism is a sickness in my mind, a weak trait in individual personalities. Having been to some of the most medieval countries on this planet, you get to appreciate what is important in life. And its not buying/receiving loads of presents. Its appreciating what you have got, who you have around you. Its really sad that people associate spending more money than they have as living.

Try seeing a family destroyed by war and you wake up pretty damn quickly into realizing what really is important in life. I will give you a clue. Its not the latest BMW or mobile phone. Having watched a father grieve his dying daughter in the back of an aircraft hammers that home.

Get over yourself, I was having a joke, christ what is it with people on here today. I'm sure you've seen a lot being in the forces, but there are plenty of folk in civvy street who've had just as harder a time. I've had plenty of points rammed home in my time too, some just as harsh as anything you might have dealt with, as is the case with others on here I'm sure. Doesn't stop me wanting to spend a few quid on my baby at Christmas.

piggeh

You people disgust me. Spending money on people you love to give them a bit of joy, something must be seriously wrong with you all. The sooner you're all cured of this illness and start hoarding all your cash away in bank accounts where it can't do any good to anyone (except bankers), the sooner the world will be a better place..

Kez100

PN, you forgot your sofa. Thats an asset. I know it is subject to wear and tear but it would still have a value.

And you haven't included anything for wine gums.

ess0two

piggeh wrote: »

You people disgust me. Spending money on people you love to give them a bit of joy, something must be seriously wrong with you all. The sooner you're all cured of this illness and start hoarding all your cash away in bank accounts where it can't do any good to anyone (except bankers), the sooner the world will be a better place..

Or alternatively join the forces and turn into a tight wad,must be the training and fellow squaddies.
Got a mate who was in the army,never was the same when he came home on leave or left altogether.

Cleaver

mbga9pgf wrote: »

As for my above comments; I couldnt give a !!!! if they are patronizing comments;

Fiar enough. But you basically implied that if people hadn't seen a family die then they were somehow corporate, consumeristic monsters who fling money at pointless cr*p for a hobby. Which is pretty patronising. And obviously not true.

Cleaver

ad9898 wrote: »

Doesn't stop me wanting to spend a few quid on my baby at Christmas.

Loser. Pay off your debts.

geoffky

mbga9pgf wrote: »

I do buy presents for people, I prefer not receive them, and for the past few years have asked for a card. If anyone wants to offer a present, I usually ask them to donate to the International Red Cross.

About the only charity I see doing genuine, good work whilst I am away, and an organization that doesnt have its execs on the scam making a fortune out of peoples donations.

My wife and I value the time we have together.

As for my above comments; I couldnt give a !!!! if they are patronizing comments; people need to wake up to the face the fact they get their !!!! wiped by the state and are very lucky. I think its a situation that will change significantly over the medium term, it has to...

Perhaps then we can get back to living as a community and helping each other out instead of selfish "want want want" and only caring what happens to you and your close family.

to you sir.....i tip my hat..

Cleaver

geoffky wrote: »

to you sir.....i tip my hat..

He would tip his back but he sold it on eBay and banked the money.