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Musings of an elder board member

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  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    carolt wrote: »
    Did you need luxury goods?

    No not really and we didn’t need something’s that are considered essentials now.
  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    Mr.Broderick wrote: »
    This is a good post for you.In a nutshell it is the feel good factor.Want a new car? Bang it on the mortgage the house you paid £90k for 5 years ago was suddenly worth £200k. People were rich and they did absolutely nothing to get there. Unfortunately it all went pear shaped. I thought utd did well this evening by the way.
    Thank you for patronising me.

    I feel ever so grateful
    Retail is the only therapy that works
  • carolt
    carolt Posts: 8,531 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    No not really and we didn’t need something’s that are considered essentials now.

    To quote your own earlier post back at you, ukcarper, these days they're not very expensive.
    ukcarper wrote: »
    Yes wage inflation did make your payment easier but we mustn’t forget the high interest rates although to be fair I must mention mortgage tax relief. But then a 20in TV did cost you 2 months wages instead of the 2 days it would cost you now.

    Plus there are some things that were were luxuries then but are essentials now, like computers - very hard to function, workwise, without one now.
  • fc123
    fc123 Posts: 6,573 Forumite
    ukcarper wrote: »
    No not really and we didn’t need something’s that are considered essentials now.





    OMG Do I do my very old person impersonation? 90+. Does anyone else remember their Grandmothers telling them about the days without fridges?. I cannot imagine it. My DD even less.....she now insists we put the Jam in it.
  • Mr.Broderick_2
    Mr.Broderick_2 Posts: 118 Forumite
    wageslave wrote: »
    Thank you for patronising me.

    I feel ever so grateful

    It is a side effect of posting behind a proxy server. No smilies. I would have normally put a sarcastic little face after that sentence. Anyway merry xmas you miserable sod :)
  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    Mr.Broderick wrote: »
    It is a side effect of posting behind a proxy server. No smilies. I would have normally put a sarcastic little face after that sentence. Anyway merry xmas you miserable sod :)

    Let me quote you......

    That was a good post for you

    What part of that was typed by a proxy server?

    BTW I am not miserable, I am nice. Ask anybody, you fu cker
    Retail is the only therapy that works
  • Mr.Broderick_2
    Mr.Broderick_2 Posts: 118 Forumite
    wageslave wrote: »
    Let me quote you......

    That was a good post for you

    What part of that was typed by a proxy server?

    BTW I am not miserable, I am nice. Ask anybody, you fu cker

    You wanna go to war tonight? It's a kind of foreplay for you isn't it?
  • ukcarper
    ukcarper Posts: 17,337 Forumite
    Part of the Furniture 10,000 Posts Name Dropper
    fc123 wrote: »
    OMG Do I do my very old person impersonation? 90+. Does anyone else remember their Grandmothers telling them about the days without fridges?. I cannot imagine it. My DD even less.....she now insists we put the Jam in it.


    Did have second hand fridge but who now would be happy with no phone, no Tele, no freezer not to mention PC. I wouldn’t but times were different then and that’s why making comparisons with doesn’t make sense.
  • wageslave
    wageslave Posts: 2,638 Forumite
    Mr.Broderick wrote: »
    You wanna go to war tonight? It's a kind of foreplay for you isn't it?

    Since when was foreplay civility?

    Men are seriously sick.......
    Retail is the only therapy that works
  • Mr.Broderick_2
    Mr.Broderick_2 Posts: 118 Forumite
    wageslave wrote: »
    Since when was foreplay civility?

    Men are seriously sick.......

    Don't tar the rest of my race with my sickness.
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