2.5 Million Families on £100k/year Don't Feel Rich

mitchaa

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

I'm afraid it's absolutely true.

edit - or is it the varying lifestyles of which you are uncertain?

Your parents, brothers and sisters, children, aunts, uncles and cousins, grandparents are all £100k + earners?

You dont know any children? Anyone retired? You dont know friends of friends, friends of familiy, you dont know anyone that works in the armed forces/police/fire brigades? You dont know any old school chums that are in prison or working in tescos?

Surely not?

lostinrates

abaxas wrote: »

The answer is, people cant be bothered.

Dh's week so far has been the following times:

Monday: left here 6:15, left work 12:30am
Tuesday: in work for 8am (so I guess left at about 7:40am)in work till some time after midnight (can't rememebr time we were talking...)
Wednesday: lie in....in work for 9am...in work till 10ish (met friend for late supper)
Thursday, in work for 8:30, was on hone in the cab while this week was on, because I was telling him about it
Today: in work for 9:30am (lazy sod) and don't know when he'll be home....he usually manages an earlier train on Fridays, because his boss nice and knows he comes out of townto go home.

I'm pretty stingey about spending money, but on days like these, I don't really expect himto save some money (and if he and his collegues did the people staffing the canteen would be unemployed...) by making a packed lunch.

mitchaa

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh's week so far has been the following times:

Monday: left here 6:15, left work 12:30am
Tuesday: in work for 8am (so I guess left at about 7:40am)in work till some time after midnight (can't rememebr time we were talking...)
Wednesday: lie in....in work for 9am...in work till 10ish (met friend for late supper)
Thursday, in work for 8:30, was on hone in the cab while this week was on, because I was telling him about it
Today: in work for 9:30am (lazy sod) and don't know when he'll be home....he usually manages an earlier train on Fridays, because his boss nice and knows he comes out of townto go home.

I think he is having an affair;)

lieutenant_dan

That's true that packed/homemade lunches don't have to always be boring sandwiches. Many workplaces have microwaves now so with a bit of imagination you could have stuff like pasta dishes at a relatively low cost instead.

Actually this debate could be broadened out to pastimes/hobbies too, with a bit of imagination you could do a lot of free or low cost stuff in your spare time, it doesn't always have to cost that much. If you have less money, it forces you to use your imagination more and look for bargains. If you have more, you'll probably not realise (unless you know the difference having been in both types of situations) that you can do things at a fraction of the cost to a reasonable quality too. Also for clothes, you don't have to shop in Matalan or Asda, plenty of other good quality clothes around if you look hard enough.

lostinrates

mitchaa wrote: »

I think he is having an affair;)

N'ah, he's too tired.

(besides, if I were the other woman I'd be furious if he were replying to emails etc hen he was meant to be otherwise engaged,)

Me and dopester on the other hand....;)

mitchaa

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

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Kind of depressing, really

Are they all snobs? You know the types, looking down their noses at anyone that does not earn 6 figures. The types that would never be seen in a pub with the rif raff working classes or shopping in tescos in amongst the benefit class scum.

Yeah, I can see why you're depressed hanging around with ''these types''. I can just imagine the fun Hubert and co have at their xmas parties:p;)

Some people need to get out into the real world, far more enjoyable I tell thee.

lostinrates

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

My husband is similar, he leaves at 6.30am and never gets back before 8.30 at the absolute earliest.

People ask me how he is and I say I don't really know!

Actually,''mine'' doesn't live with me Mondy night to Friday....but we are lucky because his employers are fair an accept that with such separation (whether like us geograhically, or just from long hours) day time phone calls/emails etc are not frowned upon. And through the evening when he's waiting for responses from colleagues/superiors he calls and we chat in spurts. We usually chat about what he'll have for supper, and then later, on his cab ride home.

olly300

abaxas wrote: »

In terms of lunch, for £5 a day you could eat like a king, providing you made it yourself.

For me, I cant understand why people buy their lunch. It's mostly crap, so why not make it youself for 1/3 of the cost, have something better and healthier.

The answer is, people cant be bothered.

Time vs money.

If I'm working 11-12 hours with a 3 into total commute the last thing I'm going to do is make my lunch for the next day when I could be doing something else if I could afford it.

PaulW1965

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Almost everyone I know earns over 100K but their individual standards of living vary dramatically.

This is true for me too. Those who have inherited as well are better off than others but also some of my friends have had large redundancy packages over the decades too. Those who have been redundant more than once are the richest. Redunancy plus inheritance - well you've hit the jackpot - providing you go on to find a new job of course, which all my friends have.

lostinrates

PaulW1965 wrote: »

This is true for me too. Those who have inherited as well are better off than others but also some of my friends have had large redundancy packages over the decades too. Those who have been redundant more than once are the richest. Redunancy plus inheritance - well you've hit the jackpot - providing you go on to find a new job of course, which all my friends have.

But are they made redundant and bereaved annually?

TBH, though I get what you are saying on a financial basis....inheritance equals bereavement....not many would think of it as the jack pot!