How to Get Through The Tough Times The Old Style Way.

bertiebots

ceridwen wrote: »

Congratulations on getting some more work:D.

Re the transport situation. According to my calculations - it takes 20 minutes to walk a mile - so a 10-15 minute walk twice a day = maximum 30 minutes walking per day and therefore 1.5 miles walking a day maximum in total and will be useful exercise.

Think of it as saving money on going off to Diet Clubs to lose weight. 1 to 1.5 miles walking per day is well within standard daily walking distance and will help burn off some calories.

<needs someone to say how many calories are walked off per mile at reasonable pace...>

Nooooo I really dont want to loose weight:rotfl: I only weigh 7.9 st as it is and struggle to find clothes to fit. I am lucky that I have never been on a diet but the opposite end of the scale can be a bit of a pain. My supervisor in the school kitchen often laughs at me because I eat so much! Wonder how many more calories I am going to need to consume to stay as I am...hmmm a whole cake a day maybe:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:. Once the school hols are over I will be averaging about 3 miles a day walking so I will be fit as a fiddle;) . Anyhow the less I spend on petrol the more I can spend on food:D


Thanks to everyone for the warm wishes!:beer:

Greying_Pilgrim

Way to go Bertiebots! Thanks for sharing your good news with us.

Things going well at Greying towers, as the plumber has been next door and we are no longer 'drowing in the browning' as it were. The 'product' that caused the blockage is not one used here at GT, but is not very 'old style drainage system' friendly anyway, so I wish our neighbours (or their visitors) didn't use them either. What is wrong with an old style cloth - does everything have to be disposable? So we are no longer 'in -convenienced' which is great, but I no longer have any excuse not to do the washing up - not so great.

Anyway, in answer to the title of the thread, 'How to get through the tough times the old style way' - the answer is obviously for everyone to pile into Greying's nearest branch of C0ol Tr@der - it was heaving in there today, and as far as I could see there were no 'special offers' on as such - normally there are more staff than shoppers!

Our local @sda has also changed tack in their discounting policy - there must of been a bit of 'elbowing' a little while ago - I heard the staff talking about it and thought they were referring to the 6 nations rugby! - so the stock is now discounted 'out back' and wheeled back in stacks to be set out by staff as and when. Fine, but the thing I needed was in the bottom tray......

Right off to do the washing up, then to make a 'risotto' out of Pearl Barley and the last of our tomatoes from the freezer.

Greying

GreyQueen

I agree with lots of the opinions here, on both sides (we're not actually having an argument, are we,becoming anxious)? It is galling that some people seem (from the outside at least) to squander what resources they have in the expectation that a social welfare society, such as we have enjoyed in the past few decades, will catch them when they fall. For the prudent this can seem woefully unjust.:( I see a lot of this in my work and in my neighbourhood and it is exasperating.

However, we can't always be privy to the inner workings of someone else's mind, never mind their bank account, and things aren't always what they seem, from the outside looking in. I do think that those people who continue to assume that it'll be business as usual in the coming years, that they can be careless and not put a rainy day fund away, might be in for a huge shock in years to come.

Life expectancy interests me. My Dad has been studying the family tree and my people have been living into their early eighties, and occasionally into their early nineties, for as far back as we can go (early 1600s.) My ancestors had no recourse to medicine or even pure water and ended their days in the poorhouse but they still made old bones. Even the ones who lived in London's slums.

Looking at the appalling diet and lifestyle which far too many people have, particularly with the huge increase in diabetes and alcoholism, is it reasonable to assume that people in their twenties now will routinely live as long as their grandparents' generation? Not that I'm wishing ill-health and compromised life expectancy on anyone, of any age. But I wonder......

I'm just a bit too young to be a boomer and never was at the right age at the right time to hit the sweet spots, economically. It's ruddy annoying when you know people who are buying a 3 floor riverside townhouse of award winning design for £100 LESS a month than I am paying in rent for my titchy 1 bed council flat (sad but true, and I have been a guest in that same house and it is lovely:()

I also know people who lucked out at the right point on the economic cycle and have their modest home on a mortgage which is less than half the price a month that their neighbours pay to rent an idential property. As little as 4-5 years can make the difference between being a property-owner and being stuck in a rented home for which you pay so much that you can barely afford to eat, never mind save for a deposit of your own.:(

Beccah_3

Greying_Pilgrim wrote: »

Right off to do the washing up, then to make a 'risotto' out of Pearl Barley and the last of our tomatoes from the freezer.

Greying

Would love the recipe if possible. I've had a bag of pearl barley sitting in my cupboard for a month, purchased as part of my winter stores, despite the fact that I have no idea what to do with it. It's sole purpose seems to be staring forlornly at me everytime I open the door. Any ideas would be hugely welcome!

ceridwen

GreyQueen wrote: »

I agree with lots of the opinions here, on both sides (we're not actually having an argument, are we,becoming anxious)? It is galling that some people seem (from the outside at least) to squander what resources they have in the expectation that a social welfare society, such as we have enjoyed in the past few decades, will catch them when they fall. For the prudent this can seem woefully unjust.:( I see a lot of this in my work and in my neighbourhood and it is exasperating.

However, we can't always be privy to the inner workings of someone else's mind, never mind their bank account, and things aren't always what they seem, from the outside looking in. I do think that those people who continue to assume that it'll be business as usual in the coming years, that they can be careless and not put a rainy day fund away, might be in for a huge shock in years to come.

Life expectancy interests me. My Dad has been studying the family tree and my people have been living into their early eighties, and occasionally into their early nineties, for as far back as we can go (early 1600s.) My ancestors had no recourse to medicine or even pure water and ended their days in the poorhouse but they still made old bones. Even the ones who lived in London's slums.

Looking at the appalling diet and lifestyle which far too many people have, particularly with the huge increase in diabetes and alcoholism, is it reasonable to assume that people in their twenties now will routinely live as long as their grandparents' generation? Not that I'm wishing ill-health and compromised life expectancy on anyone, of any age. But I wonder......

I'm just a bit too young to be a boomer and never was at the right age at the right time to hit the sweet spots, economically. It's ruddy annoying when you know people who are buying a 3 floor riverside townhouse of award winning design for £100 LESS a month than I am paying in rent for my titchy 1 bed council flat (sad but true, and I have been a guest in that same house and it is lovely:()

I also know people who lucked out at the right point on the economic cycle and have their modest home on a mortgage which is less than half the price a month that their neighbours pay to rent an idential property. As little as 4-5 years can make the difference between being a property-owner and being stuck in a rented home for which you pay so much that you can barely afford to eat, never mind save for a deposit of your own.:(

Nah..no argument...just a friendly discussion. The State won't be getting my money personally anyways....'twould be another plane trip booked to Switzerland first anyway....:rotfl:and it will all go to charity whatever happens to me.

I do agree with you that it is very much a matter of "timing" as to what housing people get and people with exactly similar circumstances/etc can end up having to buy a worse home or not being able to buy a home at all just because they've been born a few years one way or the other different agewise and that ain't fair either.:(. Same amount of "effort" should equal same amount of "reward" regardless of the year one was born in.

kidcat

Well the decision is in, and our offer was rejected, apparently the vendor expects the asking price:eek::eek::eek:, have pointed out that the house is almost derelict and needs so much work its just not worth the money. Agent said that its a matter of what the house is worth to me - I pointed out that actualy its a matter of what the house was worth to a bank!!

Am off to view another house tomorrow and see what thats like.

JenniO

kidcat wrote: »

Well the decision is in, and our offer was rejected, apparently the vendor expects the asking price:eek::eek::eek:, have pointed out that the house is almost derelict and needs so much work its just not worth the money. Agent said that its a matter of what the house is worth to me - I pointed out that actualy its a matter of what the house was worth to a bank!!

Am off to view another house tomorrow and see what thats like.

Sorry to hear that Kidcat, but it just wasn't meant to be. Good luck with the househunting - it is a buyers market out there so there will be others much more willing to compromise on the price I should imagine!

GreyQueen

kidcat wrote: »

Well the decision is in, and our offer was rejected, apparently the vendor expects the asking price:eek::eek::eek:, have pointed out that the house is almost derelict and needs so much work its just not worth the money. Agent said that its a matter of what the house is worth to me - I pointed out that actualy its a matter of what the house was worth to a bank!!

Am off to view another house tomorrow and see what thats like.

Sorry you didn't get your house, Kidkat. Don't estate agents make you want to commit murder?! Just think, with the ecomomy skidding, that house might have to be sold for less than the agent and the current owner have just declined...perhaps even from you. It's not over until the fat lady signs the contract (erm, is it time for me to go take my medication now?):)

ceridwen

kidcat wrote: »

Well the decision is in, and our offer was rejected, apparently the vendor expects the asking price:eek::eek::eek:, have pointed out that the house is almost derelict and needs so much work its just not worth the money. Agent said that its a matter of what the house is worth to me - I pointed out that actualy its a matter of what the house was worth to a bank!!

Am off to view another house tomorrow and see what thats like.

Aw!!! Sorry to hear that. Fancy expecting the asking price on a "ruin":eek:. Did you resist the temptation to come back with an appropriate rejoinder to that agent?

Fingers crossed that tomorrows house is It then.

Bearing in mind JUST how much money/effort can be needed on a house that doesnt come over as a total "ruin" on the face of it (ask me how I know.......grr) then maybe you've been saved from a total Moneypit House. So it might be for the best..

mardatha

Today we are living longer than ever before. But todays 70 yr olds grew up during the war. When our diet was the healthiest it ever was.