Super Scrimpers

whitesatin

Some parents must think they are failures if they don't fill up every spare moment of their children's lives. I reckon that the children would just as soon enjoy some down time. Hey, they could even play or meet up with friends. Maybe parents feel guilty for going out to work. It's a long time since I was young but I had endless and free ways to fill my time.

maman

APennySaved wrote: »

Normally 'Superscrimpers' makes reasonable - and effective - suggestions.

I think I must have missed that programme!:rotfl::rotfl:

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As a little girl my 'hobbies' were playing with my friends, going to Brownies, then Guides, reading, knitting swimming,playing cricket with my two brothers (basically they let me field and if I complained too much now and again let me bat or bowl :)) helping Mum by endlessly queueing for stuff(it was rationing era) Making stuff out of bits and pieces i.e. shells got glued onto jam jars if I could get them off my Mum or old cigar boxes that I managed to scrounge from an old gt Uncle.We made presents and things in the 1950s because there was very little money for 'hobbies' The summer holidays seem to streeetch endlessly and I have never been bored in my life. My late Dad used to say that only boring people became bored, and my Mum's favourite saying was 'The devil makes work for idle hands' so we were never allowed to be idle if you weren't doing something, then read a book, or knit Knitting was done in the evening while listening to the wireless (no T.V. in our house, my Dad said when it became more popular that it was a great way to waste your life just sitting stareing at a box so we weren't allowed one.I must say I really didn't miss it much and was 16 before we had one at home in 1959.Even then I wasn't too fussed about it as there were too few things I could be bothered watching anyway.life was far too exciting to waste staring at a screen.To this day I prefer to go out to the cinema to watch a film and I think the t.v. goes on around 6.p.m. or lunchtime mainly to watch the news I do watch t.v. but often unless there is something I particularly want to see I don't bother .Most of my tv is catch-up as I forget whats on sometimes.Last night I watched the documentry about The Queen which was on last Sunday so I'm always behind watching stuff.If a visitor arrives then it goes off straight away I hate it when the t.v. is on in the background all the time I think its so rude.If someone has made the effort to visit its me they want to talk to no t.v. they can watch that at home
I haven't seen s'scripers this week but the thought of someone spending £82 a week on hobbies means they just can't be hard up and its just a silly idea.I would imagine that few folk spend that sort of cash ,or even have that sort of money available to spend on their childrens 'hobbies' Total rubbish programme, and I certainly won't waste my precious time or energy watching it,I'd rather sit and watch paint dry I think :):)

Seakay

if we got too whiney about having nothing to do or being bored we got given extra jobs to do. We soon learned to occupy ourselves!

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

APennySaved wrote: »

What larks! Suggesting people swap a hobby for something so different as street dance for ballet & table tennis for tennis. Daft or what?!

:mad: :mad: :mad:


They seriously did that?


That's like telling a musician that they can't continue with their classical music training because it costs a bit, so here's a penny whistle and a milk carton filled with lentils to play with.


The soulless, emotionally !!!!!! B I T C H.

APennySaved

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

That's like telling a musician that they can't continue with their classical music training because it costs a bit, so here's a penny whistle and a milk carton filled with lentils to play with.

:T Indeed! You are so right!
What if the ballet dancer would have been the next Mikhail Baryshnikov?!?!, only to give up his art. What a loss to dance that would have been!

Pollycat

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

The soulless, emotionally !!!!!! B I T C H.

:T:rotfl:

That's probably why I feel like this:

Pollycat wrote: »

Now, Mrs Moneypenny - I find her incredibly irritating. I have an (almost) uncontrollable urge to slap her face every time I see it on TV.

maman

Pollycat wrote: »

Now, Mrs Moneypenny - I find her incredibly irritating. I have an (almost) uncontrollable urge to slap her face every time I see it on TV.

I was criticised on a previous thread but I totally agree with you! I find the fact that she's so overweight shouts 'fat cat' at me and I can't take her seriously. It's like she's playing at moneysaving with no substance. I'm not impressed that she was a merchant banker or whatever, that even makes the 'fat cat' impression even more realistic.

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Having a spare half hour to wait for my DGS to arrive I did watch this daft programme yesterday on catch-up.Is this silly woman for real, and as for the daft family in their detached nice house they certainly hardly look like they're on the breadline.The pair of them look rather smug, and the kids looked rather spoiled.I bet a pound to a penny they didn't keep up with their 'cheapy hobbies'.That odd lady who wanted us to cut up bits of old lace to wrap around our wrists if I did that my DDs would take me to the Drs thinking I had lost the plot.The silliest one of all was the lady with pale cream carpet who was smiling indulgently at the felt tip that her child had supposedly drawn on the carpet with
1. No small child would be allowed to draw on my carpet as
2. They would not be within 100 feet of a cream carpet anyway.Was she mad ? I have seven grandchildren and they have been brought up to respect my house and even when small my house was 'child friendly '
which meant everything that could be broken or damaged was tucked away from tiny fingers, and my carpets were certainly not pale cream In fact now my youngest DGS is 9 this year I have just replaced my stair carpet with a light biscuit coloured one as he is past the stage of doing much damage to anything.Yesterday afternoon two of my DGS arrived after school for a snack They are 11 &13 they take their shoes off in the porch anyway as they do in their own house and my sitting room carpet is light green(will be replaced later this year) I made them both a ciabatta bacon roll (which was crumbly and a bit gooey with butter and tomato ketchup) which they ate at the table with a tea towel to wipe their hands on.They are good lads and know that my home is a place I like to try to keep comfy, but reasonably tidy.I adore all of my grandchildren but have never allowed them to spoil or make too much mess.If they have been painting or colouring I have a large tablecloth which goes over the table.I just couldn't imagine why anyone would let a small child loose with felt tips in a room without supervision and a cream carpet .This programme is just not in the realms of a normal place.I feel sure that an awful lot of it is total bunkum.
The Dad in the programme and Mum even though they were told they had spent £35k over five years on their sprogs seem to think it was a bit on the amusing side, and if you had spent over £2k on piano,lessons perhaps it was time to realise that your offspring wasn't going to be the next Liberace .One of my grandsons plays the oboe at school it costs nothing and the school even provide his oboe.The other two boys both play rugby,cricket and football at school that too costs nothing.Its a game and kids love games why pay for coaching beggers belief at times

Pollycat

maman wrote: »

I was criticised on a previous thread but I totally agree with you! I find the fact that she's so overweight shouts 'fat cat' at me and I can't take her seriously. It's like she's playing at moneysaving with no substance. I'm not impressed that she was a merchant banker or whatever, that even makes the 'fat cat' impression even more realistic.

I think it's the stupid, stupid hat that does it for me. :rotfl: