Musings of an elder board member

treliac

Pobby wrote: »

Tell me about it. I don`t do telly much. I do like movies, well some and other odd things. We have a vast amount of TV stations. Mrs. P, when not reading or working often says, there is nothing on telly tonight.

Ah well, there's always here to fall back on. There's always something happening on here.

sjaypink

talking of telly i saw this on xmas eve (i think?)

gordon brown rap- sorry if already posted

SingleSue

ukcarper wrote: »

A well grounded but rare individual I suspect

Hehe....people call him weird, we all offered to buy him a television and the TV license but he wouldn't hear of it (I was much better off then).

Strangely, when he lived at home, he was a complete TV addict.

SingleSue

I remember buying my at the time fiance a CD player....they were pretty new fangled at the time and I had to get a seperates thing to go with the other seperates (Pioneer) and it cost me £199...that was in the late 80's.

fc123

sjaypink wrote: »

So glad I decided to read through this board to cheer me up after my Eastenders style xmas :rolleyes::D

Anyway, Seasons Greetings to all, young, old, STRs, HPI cheerleading debt junkies, and fellow dysfunctional council estate dwellers (just realise how well that ties in with paragarph 1 :rotfl:) :A

Off for some more pheasant & booze now :beer:

:hello::hello: Hi SJay...I had a more essence of Royle Family Xmas day and it was great...they all enjoyed it esp OH's mum....which is why we did it.

I am home too...telly free and just eaten a lot of raw food to recover from it.

Davesnave

ukcarper wrote: »

It wasn’t so calm property prices in the southeast doubled in 1972

You're right, prices rose in the early 70s, but I was too young to be involved then. I remember an EA friend telling me around '75 that we wouldn't see similar rises again. I didn't believe him and started saving!:D

The kids at school used to laugh at my 21 year old car and the fact that I didn't have TV. I answered that having my own house was more important than spending to look good in the short term.

I bought in '77 and sold that house in '87 for more than six times what I'd paid. Inflation was really something else during that era!:rolleyes:

chucky

wageslave wrote: »

There's a lot you say that makes sense but that I can't agree with. I honestly wish I could.

But most of us Chucky have to sell our souls for a deposit for a house.

then maybe the choice of buying a house isn't for them and they've been priced out unfortunately, it may be wrong and society is screwed up but that's the way it is - i'm being realistic here not trying to be patronising in any way.

wageslave wrote: »

You and Hamish make it sound so easy. I am never sure if it is arrogance or stupidity.

It certainly isn't any reality I recognise.

not sure how to take this but i'll take it square in the chin and accept it

Mr.Broderick_2

chucky wrote: »

then maybe the choice of buying a house isn't for them and they've been priced out unfortunately, it may be wrong and society is screwed up but that's the way it is - i'm being realistic here not trying to be patronising in any way.

not sure how to take this but i'll take it square in the chin and accept it

To be fair I never know how to take any of it.

PasturesNew

My first property was a 2nd hand mobile home. Sofa donated from bf's grandmother who had been carted off to a nursing home, oven didn't work so I bought a microwave (cheaper than fixing the calor gas oven), bought a new bed in the sales (luxury, but I was 28ish!).

Next property, SO studio (bed on mezzanine), splashed out and bought 2 cheap new sofas and a chest of drawers, also cheapest oven I could find. I was 30/31 by now. First washing machine (2nd hand) was when I was about 32.

Next house I was about 40, I'd bought myself out of negative equity on the previous one and had a 3 year gap. Stuff out of storage, nothing new. Luckily they left the curtains/carpets (which I left in it when I sold 7 years later).

To this day I never got as far as having a table/dining table.

When I left there, most stuff was charity shops, 20+ years old and donations, so I discarded the lot. Thought next time I'll start afresh, it's time I did.

Still only got a portable TV, no stereo, no gadgets or electronics, not even a camera phone.

As a single income household I'll never have the disposable income to have a place like you see in the mags and on the telly ... but what I do have is bought and paid for.

John_Pierpoint

During the "party" days (ie post 1996 thru 2007), some families managed to generate excess income - Instead of buying an urban 4 x 4 on everlasting credit.

Some other families generated telephone number incomes and perhaps bought "real" things.

The children of these families now have a source of credit; it is called
"The bank of Mum & Dad".
That is where the floor under house prices is coming from.