So the 'crash' is over, how was it for you?

Thrugelmir

Dan: wrote: »

Im not. Im just a regular family guy. Great family, nice home, good job, bit of money, and enjoys life without breaking into a sweat in case the Torys stick up tax by a few quid, or the mortgage will cost a bit more next year.

If only life was so straight forward. :beer:

Cleaver

tek-monkey wrote: »

How am I supposed to know my house value at christmas 2009 without him?

Why don't you start a thread on Christmas Day with some pictures of your house, your original purchase price and date, the post code, a link to your road on house prices, organised links to your local estate agents and some graphs of property prices in your local area. We could then all have a massive row about the value.

Forget the Playstation 3 or a mountain bike, I reckon that would be the best Christmas present ever for quite a few people on here. A proper w*nk-fest.

Cleaver

Dan: wrote:

Im not. Im just a regular family guy. Great family, nice home, good job, bit of money, and enjoys life without breaking into a sweat in case the Torys stick up tax by a few quid, or the mortgage will cost a bit more next year.

Thrugelmir wrote: »

If only life was so straight forward. :beer:

To be fair I live my life to pretty much the same mantra.

carolt

Cleaver wrote: »

To be fair I live my life to pretty much the same mantra.

But you don't have kids.

Dan's never mentioned them either.

I think once you do, it's not pointless 'worrying'; it's responsible parenting.

Cleaver

carolt wrote: »

But you don't have kids.

Dan's never mentioned them either.

I think once you do, it's not pointless 'worrying'; it's responsible parenting.

Yeah, that's very true and don't plan to have any either as it currently stands. The term 'responsible parenting' makes me want to cry on many levels, which is probably the reason for the first sentence of this paragraph.

IveSeenTheLight

carolt wrote: »

But you don't have kids.

Dan's never mentioned them either.

I think once you do, it's not pointless 'worrying'; it's responsible parenting.

I do have a kid and I do have the same mantra as Dan and Cleaver.
I definately wouldn't agree with your insinuation that this leads me to being an irresponsible parent.

You can only do so much to protect your kids, sometimes hard lessons need to be learnt.

My son fell over the other day, I could have held him up and protected him from falling.
The thing is, he got back up and on with his life, probably having learned a little more about balance

[edit] Actually, the wife is far more protective of him than I am, maybe its a male / female / maternal instinct thing [/edit]

Cleaver

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

My son fell over the other day, I could have held him up and protected him from falling.
The thing is, he got back up and on with his life, probably having learned a little more about balance.

That's all well and good, but have you asked him how he feels about the imminent tax rises that we will certainly see from a Tory government and whether he has any plans to shelter his assets?

JonnyBravo

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

I do have a kid and I do have the same mantra as Dan and Cleaver.
I definately wouldn't agree with your insinuation that this leads me to being an irresponsible parent.

You can only do so much to protect your kids, sometimes hard lessons need to be learnt.

My son fell over the other day, I could have held him up and protected him from falling.
The thing is, he got back up and on with his life, probably having learned a little more about balance

[edit] Actually, the wife is far more protective of him than I am, maybe its a male / female / maternal instinct thing [/edit]

And I'll join the clan too.
Yes two kids, (one started uni last week - so they survived my obvious neglect).
Don't underplay the common sense we all (?) have. Dan never said he acted randomly or made rash decisions. It really isn't that hard to do the right thing and yet not run round worrying all and sundry with every decision in life.

Cannon_Fodder

IveSeenTheLight wrote: »

My son fell over the other day, I could have held him up and protected him from falling.
The thing is, he got back up and on with his life, probably having learned a little more about balance

A totally sensible parenting choice.

Pretty much the opposite of the over-protective measures holding up the economy at the moment...

If only the Govt had taken your approach, recognising that a little pain helps a lesson to be learnt...

Instead of which, they have coddled sections of society, who will get the worst shock of their lives when the second-wave recession, or double-dip, does hit and they find the Govt is no longer there to protect them.

chucky

Thrugelmir wrote: »

If there's been a crash then I've blinked and missed it.

There's been a market correction which would have been far worse if interest rates had been higher.

Good to time now to bail out of property after several months of rises. When the herd changes direction then we will see where we are heading.

good idea - everyone bail out of property now!!!!! :rolleyes:

hold on - where are these people going to live??