Its a wonderful life... Want to try.....?? A Single parents View.. !!xx!

funnyguy

I thinx this post should now close...It was a silly one to start in the first place..not really a money saver thread..everyones said there piece a few times now......bye...

Jet

sammyy wrote:

So someone would need to earn about £20k gross to earn the same as being on benefits with one child?That seems an awful lot and I would imagine is a lot less then a lot of families who work have to live on.

A couple with one child earning £20k would still be entitled to £16.13 a week in tax credits. They would also receive £17.45 child benefit. Meaning that their income is increased by £1746.16 ish per year.

Assuming only one person was earning this income, the other could stay at home and look after the child.

black-saturn

MORPH3US wrote:

1. Noticed that the girl brought hovis bread, branded cereals and wore designer clothes - myself and my gf are on nearly £20k a year each and we can't afford branded cereals and bread and other foods etc. We also don't buy designer clothes. Most of my clothes come from Tesco, Asda or Matalan.

Lots of people don't like shops own make stuff. In fact I was slated for eating the cheaper versions of everything when I put my meal planner on the OS board. She might have scrimped on something else so that she could afford a nicer loaf of bread. The clothes might have come from the charity shop.

MORPH3US wrote:

2. I laughed when she was looking at the £90 Firetrap coat in House of Fraser. Again, myeslf and GF could never spend that much on a "fashion" coat!! And there she is saying "I don't think its overpriced" ?!?!?.

It didnt actually show her buying it, just trying it on.

MORPH3US wrote:

prefering to stay at home to watch Trisha!!

This is the preconcieved idea of what working people think stay at home lone parents do. We don't all sit at home watching TV all day, there isnt time to.

MORPH3US

funnyguy wrote:

I thinx this post should now close...It was a silly one to start in the first place..not really a money saver thread..everyones said there piece a few times now......bye...

Seriously.... ?

Ok, it can get a bit repetative sometimes on posts like these but I quite enjoy posts like this. Everyone gets to have their say and it gets a bit heated but everything usually comes out ok in the end!

M

black-saturn

astonsmummy wrote:

I think you'll find she said after housing costs she'll be £40pw better off - which sounds about right to me.

My boyfriend is a lone parent MAN (yes they do exist) with a daughter. He has just started working in retail with the same company as I work for. He is only £18 per week better off than if he didn't work. He has to get up at 5am and walk 40 minutes each way to get there (if he took the bus every day he wouldnt be any better off). In the winter it will be awful. Wheres the incentive in that?

Jet

black-saturn wrote:

My boyfriend is a lone parent MAN (yes they do exist) with a daughter. He has just started working in retail with the same company as I work for. He is only £18 per week better off than if he didn't work. He has to get up at 5am and walk 40 minutes each way to get there (if he took the bus every day he wouldnt be any better off). In the winter it will be awful. Wheres the incentive in that?

I do hear what you're saying, but when you are on such a low income - £18 does make a big difference.

black-saturn

viktory wrote:

I could but will decline. As everyone else on this forum has the right to do. I wasn't intentionally being nosey and apologise to anyone I have offended by asking, but I was interested in comparing how the benefits stack up now compared to when was a claimaint all those years ago.

Let's not forget that the original and subsequent posts were all in relation to how single parents struggle on benefits. It is therefore quite logical to ask how much they actually have to manage on.

You are another poster that seems very defensive for no apparent reason. I have made my feelings quite clear in my previous posts and see no reason why I should continue to defend my point of view. We are simply covering old ground.

You seem very bitter.

wigginsmum

black-saturn wrote:

My boyfriend is a lone parent MAN (yes they do exist) with a daughter. He has just started working in retail with the same company as I work for. He is only £18 per week better off than if he didn't work. He has to get up at 5am and walk 40 minutes each way to get there (if he took the bus every day he wouldnt be any better off). In the winter it will be awful. Wheres the incentive in that?

Kudos to him for doing it. He has my admiration.

black-saturn

MORPH3US wrote:

I'm glad that my situation gave you a laugh! I could afford branded bread if I wanted it, but I choose to make the sacrafice (hence being on a moneysaving forum) because the savings on branded food are better off paying off debts!

If I were you I would go back onto benefit, pay those debts off and get yourself a decent loaf of bread.

MORPH3US wrote:

I choose not to buy branded food / clothes because in my opinion I can't afford them because I have debts which need paying off first. Thats what I hate about society now, people accept debt as a way of life and don't care so carry on spending what they can't afford because they would rather have branded food than pay off their debts quicker.

I hate being in debt (mortgage accepted) and won't relax until i'm not!!

Who got you into that debt? Did you think about paying it off when you were spending all the money? You really can't blame anyone else here.

MORPH3US wrote:

Oh and one more thing....... did I see both those young girls smoking..... bet thats a costly habbit!!

I only saw her smoking when her mum gave her a cigarette.

black-saturn

vics_1982 wrote:

I'd also like to see a programme about single dads who also raise there children wonderfully on there own with no sign of the mother, Why don't they do this????

My wonderful boyfriend could star in this. He has had full custody of his daughter for the last 8 years and has done really well considering he knew nothing at all about cooking or housework before he got her. I do find it annoying though that lone parent mothers are percieved as staying home to watch Trisha all day, got pregnant on purpose to get a council house, smoke their heads off and just want to scrounge off the dole and yet a lone parent father is seen to have the sun shining out of his a**ehole.