Experts say wait 5 years to buy back into property

ukcarper

mewbie wrote: »

It was unfair of me. Sorry Mr. Crapper. That was also unfair, but I hope can be taken as a joke.

It can
It just goes to show it's always difficult buying a house and very few people get it exactly right

ukcarper

SingleSue wrote: »

My parents were FTB's in 1969.

They purchased a 3 bedroom semi detached for 4k, no idea what my father earnt at the time though as he keeps that sort of info to himself but he did say it took up approx 50% of his monthly pay.

Mewbie - maybe ukcarper is another like me, completely anal about figures, I even remember my first part time wages, every joining and leaving date for my employment, my salary at each stage of employment etc.

Yep, I am weird!

I am a bit but I'm sure most people remember what they paid for thier first house

I can remember my first wage £6-7s-6d a week that shows my age

SingleSue

Lol, mine was 50p an hour as a shop assistant (I was 13) or my paper round was £1.50 for the Monday-Saturday deliveries and 75p for Sunday (age 12)

ukcarper

SingleSue wrote: »

Lol, mine was 50p an hour as a shop assistant (I was 13) or my paper round was £1.50 for the Monday-Saturday deliveries and 75p for Sunday (age 12)

That was for a 40 hour week £1.50 for paper round way to much mine was 14/6

SingleSue

Ahh now my first full time wage was £40 a week, 10 in the morning to 10 at night, 6 days a week.

ukcarper

And people think they work hard now

uropachild

Luxury. We used to have to get out of the lake at six o'clock in the morning, clean the lake, eat a handful of 'ot gravel, work twenty hour day at mill for tuppence a month, come home, and Dad would thrash us to sleep with a broken bottle, if we were lucky!

SingleSue

ukcarper wrote: »

And people think they work hard now

Too true...my son thinks I am mad when I tell him about the hours I used to put in.

Before my children, it was a regular 80 hour week...yes I did reap the rewards of that with very high pay but by goodness, I had no life.

Even when I had the children, I had an evening shift job which would fit in with when hubby could have the children, then I started doing some day shifts on top...at times I was working longer hours than the fulltimers plus dealing with 2 disabled children (plus a 'normal' child) and a diabetic/addison husband, a myriad of hospital appointments and running a successful website with a team of approx 40 people.

All on around 2 hours sleep a night.

I ran myself into the ground and had a nervous breakdown in the end....it was too much for my body to cope with and it turned around one day and said "Aarrgghhh I give up!"

The stupid thing was that I didn't need to work as hubbies money was such that I didn't need to....I wanted to for my sanity.

I suppose that is why I get so ultra sensitive when people say those on benefits are a drain to society and are ne'er do wells....I worked blooming hard for many many years and only now need the support, it is not my intention to stay like this for evermore.

ukcarper

I'm sure there are people who work very hard now.

Some people are to quick to criticise people on benefits but although there are scroungers there are also plenty of people who have been unlucky.

uropachild

There are lazy people across the wealth spectrum. It's just that those lucky enough to be born with a silver spoon in their mouth probably don't get chided for it as often.