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This surely cannot last.......
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »30 years ago 3 cotton shirts and ties would have been at least a days wages.
Now it's an hours wage.
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Unfortunately it probably still is a days wages, but for someone somwehere in AsiaChuck Norris can kill two stones with one birdThe only time Chuck Norris was wrong was when he thought he had made a mistakeChuck Norris puts the "laughter" in "manslaughter".I've started running again, after several injuries had forced me to stop0 -
..... Right, I've been out all day.
A little bit drunk.
I've just got in and my missus has been out shopping all day.
She has bought me (amongst other things) ........... 3 cotton shirts for work - with ties - for £6
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Are they from that 'new' designer store " Matthew Allan"??0 -
At that price don't they count as disposable...certainly cost more to send them to the laundry service.I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.0
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Disposable income has increased massively over the last few decades, as has standard of living.
But I rather suspect the quality of shirts has decreased significantly......
You've got it the wrong way around.
We have 'enslaved' the Chinese, Vietnamese & Sri Lankans (and their children) who work in factories making things for us at stupidly low prices.0 -
And to draw attention away from the other big bag containing 3 pairs of new shoes...
I was phoned up by the credit card company. "I'm terribly sorry to tell you that someone has stolen your card. They spent £XXX on shoes!" The last bit was in tones of incredulity that someone could spend that much on shoes even with a stolen card.
I felt so, so embarrassed.....No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?0 -
You've got it the wrong way around.
We have 'enslaved' the Chinese, Vietnamese & Sri Lankans (and their children) who work in factories making things for us at stupidly low prices.
Ahhhh, I see.
So you want house prices to fall by 30% to get us back to the old income multiple averages, (whilst ignoring the fact that people pay a lower percentage of income on housing today than they did then due to lower rates) but you want the cost of everything else to rise by several hundred percent, eliminating any perceived gain from falling house prices.......
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Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »Ahhhh, I see.
So you want house prices to fall by 30% to get us back to the old income multiple averages, (whilst ignoring the fact that people pay a lower percentage of income on housing today than they did then due to lower rates) but you want the cost of everything else to rise by several hundred percent, eliminating any perceived gain from falling house prices.......
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It would be quite nice to have cheaper housing and clothing made without the use of child labour. I think both are probably possible.0 -
It would be quite nice to have cheaper housing and clothing made without the use of child labour. I think both are probably possible.
I often wonder about that, maybe the children work because they have to, for them and their families to survive
What happens if you take away their job,will their govt look after them. 'Just think for a moment what a prospect that is. A single market without barriers visible or invisible giving you direct and unhindered access to the purchasing power of over 300 million of the worlds wealthiest and most prosperous people' Margaret Thatcher0 -
I think the idea is that you pay better wages and refuse to employ children, and then the jobs are done by adults. The adults can then support their families without extra income from the children, and the children have a chance to get educated. That's the best case, anyway. It's all horribly complicated, but at least if one tries to buy things that have been made by adults, then it supports jobs for adults, which is better than an economy based on child labour. To work well, eradicating child labour needs to be in conjunction with education, female literacy, healthcare, contraception, micro-finance, skills training etc etc etcDo you know anyone who's bereaved? Point them to https://www.AtaLoss.org which does for bereavement support what MSE does for financial services, providing links to support organisations relevant to the circumstances of the loss & the local area. (Link permitted by forum team)
Tyre performance in the wet deteriorates rapidly below about 3mm tread - change yours when they get dangerous, not just when they are nearly illegal (1.6mm).
Oh, and wear your seatbelt. My kids are only alive because they were wearing theirs when somebody else was driving in wet weather with worn tyres.
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My brother told us how he was recently shown a factory in the Far East making lightbulbs. It was staffed by children not much older than mine, who were CHAINED TO THE DESK.
I have no comment to make on this - genuinely lost for words.0
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