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

amcluesent

TBH, not sure if I feel wealthy or not. Salary is around £70K, net worth about £320K (mortgage free). I guess if my net worth was > £500K I'd feel a tiny bit wealthy.

Former_Spice

mitchaa wrote: »

You can't even buy a mars bar for 50p

Not that i eat mars bars for my dinner mind you, but £5 a day for lunch is the norm for me. A filled baguette, a can of coke, a packet of crisps and an apple costs about that. Some days ill have a big mac meal, other days i'll have a pasta salad, some days ill have nothing but I cant imagine 50p buying you a lot:rotfl:

£2.50 a week will comfortably buy a loaf of bread, fillings and fruit for lunches from Aldi or LIDL. It is not necesary to pay others to prepare some expensive foods for you.

BitterAndTwisted

Of course it's not necessary but I really can't see some high-powered executive earning £100k per annum taking a home-made cheese butty out of their briefcase when all of their colleagues are going to the Pont de la Tour for a quick lunch. Perfectly OK for factory-workers or office peeps on the lower rungs

amcluesent

> I really can't see some high-powered executive earning £100k per annum taking a home-made cheese butty<

The top echelon use lunch to parley, so going along to J Sheekey, Ivy, Le Gavroche, The River Cafe, Gordon Ramsay etc.

abaxas

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Of course it's not necessary but I really can't see some high-powered executive earning £100k per annum taking a home-made cheese butty out of their briefcase when all of their colleagues are going to the Pont de la Tour for a quick lunch. Perfectly OK for factory-workers or office peeps on the lower rungs

Usually the other way round.

Pleb buy, upper management bring it in.

lostinrates

Former_Spice wrote: »

£2.50 a week will comfortably buy a loaf of bread, fillings and fruit for lunches from Aldi or LIDL. It is not necesary to pay others to prepare some expensive foods for you.

I do agree....but crucially, if people, who can afford to, don'tbuy lunch then what happens to the people being paid to make lunch? Its direct transfer of wealth, IMO, in a healthy way: through employment.

lostinrates

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Of course it's not necessary but I really can't see some high-powered executive earning £100k per annum taking a home-made cheese butty out of their briefcase when all of their colleagues are going to the Pont de la Tour for a quick lunch. Perfectly OK for factory-workers or office peeps on the lower rungs

Its fine for everyone to eat a home made butty. DH has done it before, and will on occasion do it again, as does his boss. They also often have lunch in the canteen. And similarly go with out lunch sometimes. But the fact remains, on long hours and little sleep, its easier to buy. And it provides employment!

BitterAndTwisted

I don't disagree with you LIR but some of our posters seem to be strangely outraged that other people choose not to do what they do themselves, possibly out of necessity. Why should they? If I was earning £100k per annum I certainly wouldn't bother, I'd have lunch delivered to my desk, especially as some of those top-earners often work through their lunch any way

PasturesNew

I think the lunch issue is the thin end of the wedge. If you can rein in/think about your lunch spend, then that's something that can help you realise every other spend. When you're skimping on your food, you start to realise the other waste in your life.

I skimp because you can only spend money once. So I make sure that I keep every purchase to a minimum, enabling that money to stretch. And one day, if I'm ever rich I'll feel rich too

fc123

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Of course it's not necessary but I really can't see some high-powered executive earning £100k per annum taking a home-made cheese butty out of their briefcase when all of their colleagues are going to the Pont de la Tour for a quick lunch. Perfectly OK for factory-workers or office peeps on the lower rungs

I do Asda smart price flasks whenver convenient .........which depends on the event/trip and the handbag used...I don't 'do' Asda flask in rumpled Adsa carrier bag ....and I don't risk an Asda SP flask in a good handbag in case it decides to leak. The good handbag only goes on trips a few times a year though.

From a worthy perspective, I do flasks of coffee as a 'Power of one' campaign against chain coffee shops ~which have caused me a few issues connected to my business which made me change my life totally for a while.
Not a bad thing as it truned out, but still, I blame Costa/Starbucks...a scapegoat makes it easier.

The second reason is I hate any coffee other than Nescafe Espresso with full fat milk and raw cane sugar....I think I may have become a bit OCD about coffee as I have got older. I know Nescafe is the work of the devil himself...but I am addicted to this particular brand. Addictions being a seperate issue.

Homemade sanies or tupperwares of oats, seeds and fruit? I have unwrapped/eaten those in all sorts of places....people assume you have a gluten allergy or something....and so, no shame at all. In fact, it's quite 'now' in some circles.;)