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

PaulW1965

lostinrates wrote: »

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!

I have friends - a couple - who have made a fortune being made redundant. They live in a very large house. They name the "wings" after the companies that made them redundant, so it's "the Tesco wing" for example or "the Sainsbury wing". Between them they have 3 massive redundancy packages. I kid you not. Not that I'm bitter or anything;)....

lostinrates

PaulW1965 wrote: »

I have friends - a couple - who have made a fortune being made redundant. They live in a very large house. They name the "wings" after the companies that made them redundant, so it's "the Tesco wing" for example or "the Sainsbury wing". Between them they have 3 massive redundancy packages. I kid you not. Not that I'm bitter or anything;)....

Is the third wing Asda or waitrose?

abaxas

olly300 wrote: »

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.

Weekend + freezer + work microwave.

Problem SORTED.

Bag of salad + cherry toms + salad dressing + salami.

Problem SORTED.

PaulW1965

lostinrates wrote: »

Is the third wing Asda or waitrose?

None of the names are real. My mate's wife is definitely an MSEer. Despite massive amounts of wealth she is proper old style (or just plain mean I haven't decided which yet:rotfl:)....now I must stop before I start to sound bitter and twisted

PasturesNew

Pete111 wrote: »

£5 is not that much to get a decent reasonably healthy takeway bite to eat in London...

I had to go to the office in the centre of London, I had to get a sandwich at lunchtime to eat for my tea (expenses were too low to eat at the Travelodge they had me in). I was astounded at the sheer range of flavours I found in a few shops - and what I considered to be cheaper prices than where I'd come from. I saw a Pret, but there were about 12 other shops selling sandwiches etc around, so I looked in those.

I was at Hyde Park Corner and there was certainly greater choice, at cheaper prices, than in my own small town.

PasturesNew

Pete111 wrote: »

And if that eatery is Pret then a fiver just about gets you a sarnie, a drink and a bag of organic lentil and hedghog flavour crisps...

or a decent sized tray of Sushi. Yum.

If that's all it got me I'd have just the sandwich and get water back at the office.

uzubairu

LilacPixie wrote: »

Homemade lunches don't have to be sandwiches. We have a micro in our office so I usually take in something to heat up. Baked tattie with left over chili from night before, soup, basically whatever I fancy.

I think no matter the salary most seem to live to their means. I/we earn no where near 100k but do ok. I wish it was more but we survive. I have been half heartedly trying to expand my 2nd income but its not happening. I lack the sales/promotional skills and the time to develop them.

I got sick of eating the rubbish in the staff restaurant and even when I was I was buying stuff off the shopfloor approx £3.50 (I work in a supermarket), it didn't taste half as delicious as the food I now eat that is prepared at home.

I very rarely have sandwiches, but I get envious looks from my colleagues when I open my lunch bag, and often have to share some of it.
At first I was only doing it 2/3 times a week because I didn't plan my time, but going back to boring stodgy food on the other days was just so awful that I knew I had to make the time.

olly300

Lots of presumptions

abaxas wrote: »

Weekend + freezer + work microwave.

Problem SORTED.

Not all companies have a work microwave and kettle you can use.

Damn annoying if you want a hot drink as you have to pay for hot water.

abaxas wrote: »

Bag of salad + cherry toms + salad dressing + salami.

Problem SORTED.

Detest cherry tomatoes.

Dislike salami.

I've also had weekends when I've not been able to go to the supermarket because I've been busy on the weekend so not been able to get fresh food.

Plus when you have to eat 2 meals at work plus carry other stuff in on the train it's a hassle.

I have actually worked in places I've taken my lunch in everyday but I have run out of food in the day. Luckily there has been a supermarket within walking distance......

PasturesNew

To be honest, a packed lunch with me is lucky if it makes it to 10am.... if I have food, I have to eat it... just a nibble .. and another ... and one more...

Sometimes half the packed lunch doesn't even get as far as the office.

You can't pack just anything either, most places I've worked have no facilities at all, so you can't put stuff in a fridge. At the one or two that have had a microwave, it meant queueing with others to use it, then back to your desk to eat your bowl of soup/whatever ... and as you're at your desk people want you to be working.

baby_boomer

Interesting that today's wealth survey shows that Londoners' average household wealth is on a par with the North East :eek: and significantly below the national average which tends to support my earlier comment, quoted below.

Just because more of us are 40% tax payers than the national average, doesn't necessarily make us collectively "rich" as the cost of living in London can easily erode any earnings differential.

baby_boomer wrote: »

You can be paying 40% tax in London and not have a cat in hell's chance of owning your own property.

Is that "rich"?

Or just the opportunity to see relatively large sums of money go through your current account to no great long term effect?