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What things can you not do with out

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  • calleyw
    calleyw Posts: 9,896 Forumite
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    Nothing really.

    Sick buckets now I don't want to be without my husband.

    But everything else could go it really does not worry me.

    My perspective in life is that I have clothes on my back, food in my belly and a roof over my head.

    Everything else is a luxury and a bonus. Yes it would be a boring life but I am hardly going to die if I don't have a mobile/sky tv/get my hair done etc.

    I am not saying that I don't like the nice things in life we all do. But I know where to draw the line. Could be why I only have mortgage debt.


    Yours



    Calley
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  • bigdec
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    calleyw wrote:
    Nothing really.

    Sick buckets now I don't want to be without my husband.

    But everything else could go it really does not worry me.

    My perspective in life is that I have clothes on my back, food in my belly and a roof over my head.

    Everything else is a luxury and a bonus. Yes it would be a boring life but I am hardly going to die if I don't have a mobile/sky tv/get my hair done etc.

    I am not saying that I don't like the nice things in life we all do. But I know where to draw the line. Could be why I only have mortgage debt.


    Yours



    Calley


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  • Andybez38
    Andybez38 Posts: 1,773 Forumite
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    I could not live without " FOOD & WATER " :D
    I came into this world with nothing and I'm gonna leave with nothing.
  • Claudie
    Claudie Posts: 1,316 Forumite
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    Luxuries really but I couldn't do without my GHDs or Sky+ - like air con in the car, once you have it you can't go back!
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  • mine are the internet, it pays for its self and it keeps me from being bored and buying magazine etc because you can find all the news on the web anyway :) my £3.20 a month for my online game subscribtion (i know if you add it up yearly it costs £38.40) but i must say i use it near on everyday, its the same price as a shop brought game and it keeps me ocupied for hours and the only other thing is the odd music download (if my brother hasnt already downloaded it ;)) so not much really :rotfl: and if i had to i could give all of them up... but i wont
  • I'm in the fortunate position of not being in debt, but I am trying to boost my savings a lot recently!

    I personally couldn't do without the Internet, a mobile phone (though I could easily drop the contract) and my car. There is probably more but I can't think right now.
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  • What could I not do without? Hmmmm

    Well my car, which is nearly paid off anyway. And my mobile to keep in touch with people.

    Pretty much everything else I could do without if it got to a stage which is that desperate.

    Not particularly a materialistic person in general.
  • tawnyowls
    tawnyowls Posts: 1,784 Forumite
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    Me too! But I am trying to be good and use the library more rather than buy books. I have to be careful though ... I am terrible for forgetting when books are due back and ending up with fines! Trying to get in the habit of taking books when I finish them rather than wait and take them all back at once... that way if I do slip up it is only on 1 or 2 books rather than 5 or

    Have a look online to see if you can find your library website. You might find they do a service where you put in a PIN and you can renew your books online.
  • Tr@cker
    Tr@cker Posts: 532 Forumite
    A most worthy question grasshopper lol. I have found i can easily do without a car and be be much fitter into the bargain, mobile phone-ive never had one and half the mod-cons we have nowadays presumably to make life easier actually just helps to make you fat and lazy-we dont really need half the things we have in this consumer-obscessed society.

    BUT WE'RE ALL CONDITIONED TO BUY INTO IT.
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