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Merry Xmas everyone
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We were going to have goose, so I picked one up, then saw the price, then laughed, then put it back. There's only the two of us having lunch this year so it seemed a bit excessive. Are they they price all the way through the year? Having a nice bit of beef instead.
Happy Christmas one and all.
£50 at Waitrose
£28 at Tesco
£13 at Lidl
:eek:
Merry Christmas all.0 -
Merry Christmas everyone :beer:'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
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Merry Christmas to everyone wherever you are in the world today!0
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'Twas a very merry Xmas at McTavish Manor....
Had the whole family over, so went down to our other bigger house to host it. Mrs McT had to cook two birds, and trays full of veggies, stuffing, etc.
No room left in the fridges, so all the beer and wine and half the other fridge contents went out into the snow.
Worked surprisingly well, although I'm sure there's a bottle or two still out there that won't be found til the next thaw.....
Hope everyone has a good holiday and a happy new year.“The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie – deliberate, contrived, and dishonest – but the myth, persistent, persuasive, and unrealistic.
Belief in myths allows the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
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pinkteapot wrote: »We're all going to get fat at Christmas and end up single:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1340922/Why-eating-Christmas-turkey-good-relationship.html
So come January there'll be 10 million divorces. Resulting in a huge increase in the number of households in the country. And hence a house price boom. Happy days!
Merry Christmas everyone.
As many know on here, I've worked in advice agencies/law centres.
As with everywhere, there are seasonal trends.
We used to notice that 1 week before christmas, it'd quieten down. It wouldn't get busy again until late january (when credit card bills dropped on the doormat).
Jamuary was always quiet - consumer enquiries (someone got me this & gave me the receipt, can I get the money instead?) or seperation/divorce (I've spent 2 weeks with him/her, I hate him/her, I wanna divorce!)
NB this changed about 4 years ago, when we noticed no lull in the levels of debt cases - they'd carry on coming in up to christmas & some would even say they knew they were gonna overspend, so were getting in early!:eek:It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0 -
lemonjelly wrote: »NB this changed about 4 years ago, when we noticed no lull in the levels of debt cases - they'd carry on coming in up to christmas & some would even say they knew they were gonna overspend, so were getting in early!:eek:
Aren't lenders more cautious, now, about allowing people to get into unmanageable debt problems? If not, they damn well should be. Having said that, DS received an invitation from Barclays just before Christmas, worded thus....
'You're lined up to apply for a £4,400 loan. If you're offered it cheaper elsewhere, we'll match it'....... and so on.
Fortunately, he's been well educated about managing his finances by us and he threw it out after expressing his indignation about being enticed to take on debt he can't service.
After all, he's a full time student with no income, just the accumulation of more debt. :mad:0 -
Aren't lenders more cautious, now, about allowing people to get into unmanageable debt problems? If not, they damn well should be. Having said that, DS received an invitation from Barclays just before Christmas, worded thus....
'You're lined up to apply for a £4,400 loan. If you're offered it cheaper elsewhere, we'll match it'....... and so on.
Fortunately, he's been well educated about managing his finances by us and he threw it out after expressing his indignation about being enticed to take on debt he can't service.
After all, he's a full time student with no income, just the accumulation of more debt. :mad:
Credit is still available, only it is more expensive now. Though to be honest we are still seeing a regular stream of people still facing up to their personal debt situation for the first time.
Once granted a credit card, away you go!
Interesting that your son seems to have rec'd a junk mail style pre-approval. The reduction in junk mail was one of the big indicators I noticed when the credit crunch first arrived. Very interesting if those days are sarting to return.
With VAT rinsing in Jan, & NI rising in April, I wonder if people will revert back to credit to plug the reduction in their disposable income?It's getting harder & harder to keep the government in the manner to which they have become accustomed.0
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