christmas is coming, poor families, christmas and credit

lemonjelly

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

i thought you had a restraining order banning you from meeting strangers from t'internet, ever since.... you know .... "the incident"

:eek::eek:

I only got ketched cos you were the honey trap:p

inspector_monkfish

and i've never been able to walk the same since.....:eek:

lemonjelly

inspector_monkfish wrote: »

and i've never been able to walk the same since.....:eek:

Now there's a compliment if ever I saw one!

IIRC you started :jthen looked like :eek: then you were & left like:cool:

bo_drinker

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember the Xmases of my youth.

We always seemed to have a pack of dates and a pack of those orange/lemon sugared slices.

Xmas was great!

There was always an Xmas pudding in the cupboard and no one liked it(they didn't do sell by dates then)

inspector_monkfish

SingleSue wrote: »

Oh my, I am so embarrassed now...I thought Lemonjelly was female!

I've now got to start reading his posts with a male voice in my mind and not a female one.....

here is a recent pic of jelly, incase you were still wondering....

Pobby

PasturesNew wrote: »

I remember the Xmases of my youth.

We'd go to Woolies and buy a bag of broken biscuits - deep joy.
We'd actually have some bottles of fizzy Corona pop in the house - I was always in awe of the boy over the road whose family bought one bottle every week, not just at Xmas.
One nan would send us a new pair of soft pyjamas every year.
The other nan would give us a cheap, plastic, naked doll from the market (odd that as we had no dolls clothes to put on them as all we ever got was one naked doll a year... so we pulled the arms/legs off, drew on their face and that was it for another year).
We'd get a present from our parents. I remember one year a watch, another year I remember Monopoly.

We always seemed to have a pack of dates and a pack of those orange/lemon sugared slices.

Xmas was great!

Yes it was great. Turkish Delight, choc coins. As a child I had loads of aunts and uncles who in turn would throw a house party so each week end, right into February there would be a do on. Then, wow, some one got a record player. I often think back to those happy days when I hear " Rocking around the Christmas Tree ".

Sadly few are still with us now. My wife works every Christmas Day and Boxing day so it is a quiet affair. New Year back to our home town. That`s pretty good with family, friends and merriment.

Even the teenagers stay with us for our New Year party. They say that they have more fun with us old `uns then with there own age. Party normally is over between 2 and 3 in the morning.

lostinrates

bo_drinker wrote: »

There was always an Xmas pudding in the cupboard and no one liked it(they didn't do sell by dates then)

I like it!

izzybusy23

I know this hasn't got anything to do with christmas and poverty etc; but this morning I called in at the local shop to work to get our team a pint of milk when this little girl shouted out 'mum can I have one of these'. It was a pepperami. Ok, not the greatest thing a 3 year old should be eating, but to then hear her mother holler over 'I ain't got enough money for one of those' whilst handing over a tenner to the shopkeeper for her 20 pack of fags just riled me. So her nicotine habit outweighed her daughter having a pepperami. They live on the local estate as the shop keeper knew them. Made my blood boil. I know kids shouldn't get everything they ask for, but her mum to then buy 20 fags instead just disgusted me. So there you have it, mum would rather have her fags and that is why this country has child poverty. :mad:

inspector_monkfish

izzybusy23 wrote: »

I know this hasn't got anything to do with christmas and poverty etc; but this morning I called in at the local shop to work to get our team a pint of milk when this little girl shouted out 'mum can I have one of these'. It was a pepperami. Ok, not the greatest thing a 3 year old should be eating, but to then hear her mother holler over 'I ain't got enough money for one of those' whilst handing over a tenner to the shopkeeper for her 20 pack of fags just riled me. So her nicotine habit outweighed her daughter having a pepperami. They live on the local estate as the shop keeper knew them. Made my blood boil. I know kids shouldn't get everything they ask for, but her mum to then buy 20 fags instead just disgusted me. So there you have it, mum would rather have her fags and that is why this country has child poverty. :mad:

how do u know the fags weren't for the kid ? ;)

baileysbattlebus

izzybusy23 wrote: »

I know this hasn't got anything to do with christmas and poverty etc; but this morning I called in at the local shop to work to get our team a pint of milk when this little girl shouted out 'mum can I have one of these'. It was a pepperami. Ok, not the greatest thing a 3 year old should be eating, but to then hear her mother holler over 'I ain't got enough money for one of those' whilst handing over a tenner to the shopkeeper for her 20 pack of fags just riled me. So her nicotine habit outweighed her daughter having a pepperami. They live on the local estate as the shop keeper knew them. Made my blood boil. I know kids shouldn't get everything they ask for, but her mum to then buy 20 fags instead just disgusted me. So there you have it, mum would rather have her fags and that is why this country has child poverty. :mad:

I smoke - I often go to our local shop with the grandson aged 8, (he and his mother live with us) I go for cigarettes, milk, paper etc and I often tell him he can't have Mars bar, Crunchie, Twix or Club Penguin stuff and that I don't have the money to buy them. I do have the money - but he has to learn he can't have something every time we go to the shop. The shop keeper has known me for 17 years, and has known the grandson from birth.

It's taken a long time but I think the penny is finally dropping - and I live in a very nice area and GS goes to a very good school - one where there is plenty of parental money and a lot of the kids are spoilt brats including him - he is materially spoilt by his mother - who buys him something every time they go out together - I think it's guilt because she is a single parent and works long hours - so he expects it - but not from grandma.

You don't know why the mother refused to buy the child a pepperami - GS used to love to get a pick 'n mix from our local shop at about the age of 3 or 4 - did he ever eat them? No, he just liked choosing them.