Savers and pensioners

Gray_colt

Mr bean is telling you to quit whinging and start spending. Pensioners dont have long to live so may as well. Whats the point in saving, i tell my grandkids to spend all they have. Benefits are the future in the uk. What mr bean says makes a mockeys of this website! Hence the reason its not on the news section lol. Martin grow up and dont be bias. Admit it mr bean is right we should all be spending more.:T

LongTermLurker

Gray_colt wrote: »

Mr bean is telling you to quit whinging and start spending. Pensioners dont have long to live so may as well. Whats the point in saving, i tell my grandkids to spend all they have. Benefits are the future in the uk. What mr bean says makes a mockeys of this website! Hence the reason its not on the news section lol. Martin grow up and dont be bias. Admit it mr bean is right we should all be spending more.:T

To rely on benefits would be a very brave thing to do - if you are known to have been a regular worker and have paid your NI stamps, getting on the benefits ladder is no easy task. On the other hand, the idle ones who can't be bothered and want to live their lives scrounging off others find it easy. Personally, I'd rather hold my head high and know I've earned my lifestyle - the most pride you can get is starting with nothing and building up your level of comfort. If I was one of your grandkids, I wouldn't thank you for teaching me to become the person the world despises. If you've no pride in yourself, that's your problem.

Why should spending make a mockery of the website? Your savings are no good to you when you're dead and you might die tomorrow, but you have to assume that hopefully you won't. Therefore, unless you want to work your ars off entirely for someone else's benefit, a wise & lucky man spends what he needs to have a good time throughout his life and saves a useful amount to fund the hopefully long retirement - I very much doubt anyone will have a comfortable life on the state pension, so unless you intend saving all your ill-gotten benefits accrued during your pseudo-working life, your plan's fundamentally flawed.

Of course, not every man is both wise and lucky (not criticising anyone) and can't afford to spend and save, so they have to make a personal choice - in their circumstance, I'd adjust my lifestyle to suit and save what I could to try and cover myself for the unknown future.

Looking at your other posts, you look to be one screwed-up individual - if you carry on churning such pessimistic thoughts round in your head you might as well spend your savings, cos you won't be round to enjoy it. That's meant as a piece of good advice.