The Turn £100,00 into £10,000 by the end of 2010 all dribble unofficial Thread

munchki

Amber_Sunshine wrote: »

Look at it this way ... the freedom to pee when you want!

oh oh and dont forget the ability to eat after 8pm if you want to!

HopeAndDriftWood

munchki wrote: »

what happend with your hopeful good news hon? Or have I missed it somewhere a long the line?

I haven't heard back yet so I'm trying to make a decision...OH is being his usual helpful self :rotfl:
How was your day?

munchki

SaucySecrets wrote: »

I haven't heard back yet so I'm trying to make a decision...OH is being his usual helpful self :rotfl:
How was your day?

Mine has not been too bad thanks, travelled about 200 miles today and a bit tired and now have a head cold lol. so have some lemsip and hoping the sore throat goes away as I have another 140 miles to do tomorrow for another interview!

Also have a second phone interview with a place up in Scotland. I was totally shocked to get the first call today lol

cally6008

for ym20 and others -

link - http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/carlisle_benefits_mum_brags_about_life_of_luxury_on_the_state_1_670966

(copied here cos link might not work)

Carlisle benefits mum brags about life of luxury on the state


A Carlisle mum who told a national magazine of her “life of luxury” while living on benefits has become the target of an internet hate campaign.
Mum-of-three Pam Bainbridge, 33, gave her story to the magazine.
Over two pages, she describes how she has not worked for 13 years and yet lives comfortably with her three young children on benefits. She gets £252 a week.
That pays for numerous hi-tech luxuries, including flat screen TVs, a Sky TV subscription, laptop computers and Xboxes for the kids.
The article includes a photo of Pam and her kids at home, each clutching an expensive hi-tech gadget.
As well as benefits, the family get free school meals, eye tests and prescriptions.
Pam says she manages her benefits so well that there is enough left for her to spend £25 a week on cigarettes and pay for the upkeep of her pet dog, a pedigree Chihuahua.
But her comments sparked fury among some of her neighbours in Harraby.
The anger has also spread further afield via the social networking site Facebook, where one outraged member has set up an on-line petition, describing Pam as “lazy and cheeky.”
It aims to force Pam to go back to work. Some of the comments are abusive to both her and her children.
Pam left Carlisle last week with her kids to spend time with friends in Scotland. She said the reaction to her comments has been so ferocious she is now afraid to return to the city.
The Facebook campaign, which aims to get a million people to sign the online petition urging her to get a job, prompted her to say: “Ok, so everyone has an opinion. If you think I should get a job and let a stranger influence and raise my kids, then join this group. If one million join I will do it!”
Her comments also caused disquiet among Cumbrian charities working with people living on benefits. They insist most people on benefits struggle to get by.
In her article, Pam describes her home, its bedrooms crammed with hi-tech gadgets for the kids, her sons aged 13 and seven, and her ten-year-old daughter.
She says: “They have TVs, games consoles, their own laptops, even gaming chairs, special seats for when they’re playing with the Xboxes.
“Naturally, I have my own laptop, which I use to indulge my passion for browsing shopping websites on the internet.
“Are you impressed?
“Well here comes the best bit of all – I’m a single mum with three kids and I haven’t done a single day’s work since I was 20, 13 years ago.”
She goes on to praise the British benefits system for being so good to her.
“I’m not ashamed to be on benefits,” she continues. “I’m proud of it and I think I do work hard.
“Raising three kids and keeping my house is a full time job and for that I deserve to be paid. That’s how I see my benefits – as my wages and just rewards.”
Elsewhere in the article, Pam says she refused to let the father of her second and third child move in because she did not want her benefits to be slashed.
“I wanted the money more than I wanted a man in my bed every night,” she says.
Later, she fell in love with a soldier called Garry Bainbridge, marrying him and moving into Army accommodation, she says.
“It was awful relying on Garry’s wage – I’d been far better off on benefits,” the article continues.
After 18 months, the couple split and Pam found herself back where she belonged – on benefits.
The article continues: “Financially, this is where I’m happiest. Benefits are like a lovely big blanket, making me feel safe and warm. It doesn’t matter whether I’m ill or the kids are off school, I’ll always be paid.”
Pam says she’s so good at making her benefits stretch even her dog Milo can be treated to fancy outfits.
She steadfastly refuses to apologise for her lifestyle, saying she wants to be at home for her kids.
She adds that she has no idea what job she could do that would bring in the £16,000 a year she gets.
Commenting yesterday, Pam said she felt some comments were exaggerated but she stood by her views.
She told the News & Star: “I never meant to brag about being on benefits. I’d clean toilets for a living if I had to. I don’t lie back, and pop out kids just to get benefits – and I never planned to become a single parent. I did the article because I wanted to say that I’m not ashamed to be on benefits.
“The system just hasn’t made it beneficial for me to go out to work and let somebody else look after and influence my kids. I’d be out of pocket.
“Some people on Facebook are saying my kids will grow up to be dole dossing scum, which is getting beyond a joke. They’re good kids. I’m trying to raise three decent members of society – and they’re all intelligent and hard working and I give them everything they need.”
As for her luxuries, Pam said she scrupulously manages her money and had saved hard for them all.
In Harraby, Pam’s neighbours were far from impressed.
One woman, visiting her elderly mother who lives nearby, said: “I was shocked. I don’t think it’s right that she should be getting all that stuff. I suppose if people can be that well off on benefits why should they work? I’m just shocked that she’s talked about it in a national magazine. My mum lives on a pension and she doesn’t get any of the help this woman seems to be getting.”
Another neighbour, a middle-aged man, suggested the housing in the area – and some of Pam’s household goods – were from a charity that helps ex-servicemen.
He said: “The things that she’s said are likely to cause a lot of unease among people on this estate.”
A former soldier who lived nearby commented: “She’s just been silly.”
Yet another neighbour said: “I think she’s just talking rubbish. She can’t have got all that stuff from benefits.”
Paul Im Thurn, a lawyer who manages Carlisle Community Law Centre in Carlisle, said Pam’s comments did not reflect the reality of life on the dole for most people.
He said: “Most people on them don’t want to be on benefits. It can be very frustrating for people and the money is far less that what is normally available to people when they are working.
“I suppose if you are supremely efficient with your money, then you might be able to put some aside for extras.
“I know nothing about this woman but it’s possible she’s just putting a brave face on things.
“Her experience is in no way typical of life on benefits. People have very little money indeed – so little that it can lead to genuine poverty.”
Andy Auld, of Carlisle CAB, which also helps people on low incomes, said that many struggle to even attain a basic standard of living.
He said: “I’m concerned that this story reinforces a stereotype that bears very little resemblance to reality.”

COOLTRIKERCHICK

flipping heck calley i work my butt off, and we havent got half the gadgets that that family has....

Went to town today, just to have a wonder round, and went into some chairty shops... i was really socked at the prices, £6.99 for a manky coat which had tide marks around the collar:eek:
a washed out top for £2.99:eek:

and a pair of shoes for £4.99 which were only fit ofr the bin ( or wellworn on ebay:p)

do people REALLY pay that sort of money for that type of carp?

munchki

cally6008 wrote: »

for ym20 and others -

link - http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/carlisle_benefits_mum_brags_about_life_of_luxury_on_the_state_1_670966

(copied here cos link might not work)

Carlisle benefits mum brags about life of luxury on the state


A Carlisle mum who told a national magazine of her “life of luxury” while living on benefits has become the target of an internet hate campaign.
Mum-of-three Pam Bainbridge, 33, gave her story to the magazine.
Over two pages, she describes how she has not worked for 13 years and yet lives comfortably with her three young children on benefits. She gets £252 a week.
That pays for numerous hi-tech luxuries, including flat screen TVs, a Sky TV subscription, laptop computers and Xboxes for the kids.
The article includes a photo of Pam and her kids at home, each clutching an expensive hi-tech gadget.
As well as benefits, the family get free school meals, eye tests and prescriptions.
Pam says she manages her benefits so well that there is enough left for her to spend £25 a week on cigarettes and pay for the upkeep of her pet dog, a pedigree Chihuahua.
But her comments sparked fury among some of her neighbours in Harraby.
The anger has also spread further afield via the social networking site Facebook, where one outraged member has set up an on-line petition, describing Pam as “lazy and cheeky.”
It aims to force Pam to go back to work. Some of the comments are abusive to both her and her children.
Pam left Carlisle last week with her kids to spend time with friends in Scotland. She said the reaction to her comments has been so ferocious she is now afraid to return to the city.
The Facebook campaign, which aims to get a million people to sign the online petition urging her to get a job, prompted her to say: “Ok, so everyone has an opinion. If you think I should get a job and let a stranger influence and raise my kids, then join this group. If one million join I will do it!”
Her comments also caused disquiet among Cumbrian charities working with people living on benefits. They insist most people on benefits struggle to get by.
In her article, Pam describes her home, its bedrooms crammed with hi-tech gadgets for the kids, her sons aged 13 and seven, and her ten-year-old daughter.
She says: “They have TVs, games consoles, their own laptops, even gaming chairs, special seats for when they’re playing with the Xboxes.
“Naturally, I have my own laptop, which I use to indulge my passion for browsing shopping websites on the internet.
“Are you impressed?
“Well here comes the best bit of all – I’m a single mum with three kids and I haven’t done a single day’s work since I was 20, 13 years ago.”
She goes on to praise the British benefits system for being so good to her.
“I’m not ashamed to be on benefits,” she continues. “I’m proud of it and I think I do work hard.
“Raising three kids and keeping my house is a full time job and for that I deserve to be paid. That’s how I see my benefits – as my wages and just rewards.”
Elsewhere in the article, Pam says she refused to let the father of her second and third child move in because she did not want her benefits to be slashed.
“I wanted the money more than I wanted a man in my bed every night,” she says.
Later, she fell in love with a soldier called Garry Bainbridge, marrying him and moving into Army accommodation, she says.
“It was awful relying on Garry’s wage – I’d been far better off on benefits,” the article continues.
After 18 months, the couple split and Pam found herself back where she belonged – on benefits.
The article continues: “Financially, this is where I’m happiest. Benefits are like a lovely big blanket, making me feel safe and warm. It doesn’t matter whether I’m ill or the kids are off school, I’ll always be paid.”
Pam says she’s so good at making her benefits stretch even her dog Milo can be treated to fancy outfits.
She steadfastly refuses to apologise for her lifestyle, saying she wants to be at home for her kids.
She adds that she has no idea what job she could do that would bring in the £16,000 a year she gets.
Commenting yesterday, Pam said she felt some comments were exaggerated but she stood by her views.
She told the News & Star: “I never meant to brag about being on benefits. I’d clean toilets for a living if I had to. I don’t lie back, and pop out kids just to get benefits – and I never planned to become a single parent. I did the article because I wanted to say that I’m not ashamed to be on benefits.
“The system just hasn’t made it beneficial for me to go out to work and let somebody else look after and influence my kids. I’d be out of pocket.
“Some people on Facebook are saying my kids will grow up to be dole dossing scum, which is getting beyond a joke. They’re good kids. I’m trying to raise three decent members of society – and they’re all intelligent and hard working and I give them everything they need.”
As for her luxuries, Pam said she scrupulously manages her money and had saved hard for them all.
In Harraby, Pam’s neighbours were far from impressed.
One woman, visiting her elderly mother who lives nearby, said: “I was shocked. I don’t think it’s right that she should be getting all that stuff. I suppose if people can be that well off on benefits why should they work? I’m just shocked that she’s talked about it in a national magazine. My mum lives on a pension and she doesn’t get any of the help this woman seems to be getting.”
Another neighbour, a middle-aged man, suggested the housing in the area – and some of Pam’s household goods – were from a charity that helps ex-servicemen.
He said: “The things that she’s said are likely to cause a lot of unease among people on this estate.”
A former soldier who lived nearby commented: “She’s just been silly.”
Yet another neighbour said: “I think she’s just talking rubbish. She can’t have got all that stuff from benefits.”
Paul Im Thurn, a lawyer who manages Carlisle Community Law Centre in Carlisle, said Pam’s comments did not reflect the reality of life on the dole for most people.
He said: “Most people on them don’t want to be on benefits. It can be very frustrating for people and the money is far less that what is normally available to people when they are working.
“I suppose if you are supremely efficient with your money, then you might be able to put some aside for extras.
“I know nothing about this woman but it’s possible she’s just putting a brave face on things.
“Her experience is in no way typical of life on benefits. People have very little money indeed – so little that it can lead to genuine poverty.”
Andy Auld, of Carlisle CAB, which also helps people on low incomes, said that many struggle to even attain a basic standard of living.
He said: “I’m concerned that this story reinforces a stereotype that bears very little resemblance to reality.”

LIVID does not even come close to how I feel about this woman errrrrr sorry creature! I am a single person, lost my job due to the economy last july. had bills to pay etc....was entiteled to 225 a month towards my rent which was 425 and job seekers. At christmas I lost my house, was told by the council there was no further help they could give me etc....it makes me soooooooo angry to hear stories like this, and this is not what I pay taxes to do. I have had to literally lose nearly everything I have/had and hanging on to what little I have left with all I have. I dont always eat like I should and everything goes to keep going.......
I really dont have a problem with people that are on benefits that are trying really hard to pull themselves up and make life better for themselves in thier children, as to me that is what the system is for. I do however have a very big problem with this situation. How dare she flaunt like that grrrrrrrrrrrrrr :mad:

.......I am sorry, I shall shut up now, but this is so not right and there just is no reason whatsoever that she can not work. **mutters a whole string of expletives**

I hope I have not offended anyone here as i dont think or feel that about anyone on this thread in anyway!!! Please forgive me if I have!

cally6008

munchki - no offence taken whatsoever hun, I'm just reading the "internet-hate campaign group" about it, only 250 members though < lol >

wayne1983

nixinixi wrote: »

Wayne - I think you have found a great idea - you could offer printed and non-printed t-shirts. I previously have looked at buying some t-shirts to print myself for a childrens party but as I could only find them at bulk buys I didn't do it. If I could have brought a few at £1.35 then I prbably would.... would you do childrens, women and men? Could you offer to do printing for people too? e.g. personalised for hen nights etc

Sorry thinking out loud...can be dangerous.

Good find/idea!

Hi, i would consider doing them for anyone, but i wouldnt want to buy loads of different t shirts for kids etc until i knew they would sell, id buy just a few at first.
I could do printing for people, but could i get by using a basic printer?.
I suppose i could look at buying the 'kit' and selling with a plain t shirt and the buyer design their own.:beer:

wayne1983

dillidalli wrote: »

Wayne, see if you can get samples some but not all companies are willing to send t shirt samples so you can decide on the quality before hand. So, do it that way then get them made up. Could also do t-shirts for stag do's too

I dont know which companies are bet dealing with yet, ive looked at one or two, but seen this one. They sell 'gildan', and i know there good quality as ive got some my self. Good heavy cotton and not cheap tack!. Should i be cheeky though and ask for a sample?:o

http://www.buytshirtsonline.co.uk/classic-tshirts-c-7.html

munchki

cally6008 wrote: »

munchki - no offence taken whatsoever hun, I'm just reading the "internet-hate campaign group" about it, only 250 members though < lol >

guess things like this really wind me up! I scrimp, beg, borrow just to have enough pennies to even look for a job with the hopes of getting one and i see things like this. what kind of message is that going to teach her children? Mind you tho, I knew someone once who decided they wanted more money and literally took their 3 very young children to the benefits office and then left them all sitting on the counter and when they could not get more money and walked out!! In the end......the council gave them an emergency 250 cheque and they came back and picked up the kids and went home and threw a party.....figure that one out!

I personally would give anyone my last penny if I thought sincerely that it would help that person out, but I personally dont believe in helping some one who is not willing to help themself at all......something tells me I am digging a very deep hole for myself at the moment and I am so so sorry! Passions and all that!