Winter Fuel allowance.

Percybridge

margaretclare wrote: »

Well, it's better than buying a new one at £400 or thereabouts. Also a darned sight better than spending it on bingo or a three-legged horse.

In whose opinion?

You obviously enjoy your computer, someone else may enjoy going to the bingo/horse racing. You obviously feel you have a far superior intellect than them, but that is only your opinion.

A few posts back you were banging on about how this must be spent on winter fuel/warm clothing and critisising others for spending it on presents for their grandchildren. If that makes them happy, then why not? But now you are spending it on a new computer? Is it one rule for you and another for everyone you think is less intelligent than you?

It is clear by your lack of understanding of how ridiculous you sound that you do not appreciate who looks less intelligent here.

Percybridge

margaretclare wrote: »

an old lady from down the street plodded past. She was suitably clad for the weather, thick coat with fur-lined hood and wellington boots, but why on earth go out on a morning like this? What is so urgent?

Maybe the silly old fool went to pick up a second hand computer on a morning like this. What an idiot eh!
Perhaps that what was so urgent.

Savvy_Sue

Errata wrote: »

Mine dropped into my bank account this morning. Now all I have to do is decide what to waste it on. Gin, bingo, give it away ? Could have done with a new sled this morning to pull the dog on because the snow was up to his armpits when we went out for half an hour's exercise.
Decisions, decisons

chuckling at the thought of Errata's dog on a sled!

having said that, could I please remind you al to be nice to each other, and refer you to what I said here:

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

The other thing to bear in mind before we all get too judgmental is that many people pay their fuel bills in such a way that the money's already gone - or at least accounted for - from their account. They either have a DD, or a payment card, or they put regular amounts into the tea caddy. And they've been doing that regardless of when or whether they're getting a Winter Fuel Payment.

So by saying "that'll come in handy for the grandchildren's Christmas presents", they are just thinking of the next 'irregular' spend that's coming up.

It's not as if the utility companies expect to get that extra £200 now if you're paying by DD, is it? Or that the Chancellor expects you to put that £200 into the metaphorical tea caddy from which you pay your fuel bills before withdrawing it to spend on anything else.

At least that's the way I'd look at it: should the WFP still exist when I'm old enough to get it, I'll put it 'where most needed', and that might not be the account which pays the utility bills. But even it if is most needed in the account which pays the utility bills, that'll be £200 I don't have to find from anywhere else, which will then be available for the grandchildren's presents.

I hope I'm making sense ...

pollypenny

Percybridge wrote: »

Maybe the silly old fool went to pick up a second hand computer on a morning like this. What an idiot eh!
Perhaps that what was so urgent.

Why so nasty, newbie? And nasty to MargaretClare, too.

My lovely elderly neighbour said she was desperate to get out of the house, having been snowed in for three days. A bit of fresh air, so long as you're wrapped up, is good.

littleowl

What the heck does it matter what that specific pot of money is spent on? The point is if it is spent on something other than fuel then that releases funds for spending on fuel bills. I do not understand posters on here who have a down on what people spend the WFA on! It's a nonsense.

jennifernil

Yep.....it's just some (very welcome) extra cash.

lilac_lady

My £250 appeared in my account today. It'll go towards keeping nice and cosy.

[Deleted User]

it goes into the general money pot and part of that money pot is spent on fuel maybe next week, maybe last month and so on. It isn`t always explained very well to the ranters and they only see what they want to see

malcolmwilliamson

Errata wrote: »

Mine dropped into my bank account this morning. Now all I have to do is decide what to waste it on. Gin, bingo, give it away ? Could have done with a new sled this morning to pull the dog on because the snow was up to his armpits when we went out for half an hour's exercise.
Decisions, decisons

What sort of dog do you have Errata, with short arms:D ?

Errata

malcolmwilliamson wrote: »

What sort of dog do you have Errata, with short arms:D ?

It's an Apso - it also has short legs He's enjoying the snow, thinks he's in Tibet and is carefully snow ploughing all the back garden with his nose :rotfl: