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Nice people thread part 4 - sugar and spice and all things

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  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    . "local" one works full-time, being out of the house 13 hours/day and then having to do stuff like get their car fixed and do household stuff/shopping/coooking etc and they live alone so everything's down to them (including keeping their job so they can continue to pay their mortgage). For the "local" sibling to "pop over" is 1.5 hours' round trip even if they didn't knock on the door. So it's not practical ... .


    i.e. the local one is having the life that you should be having? What makes them different to you? You need to address your income ATM, you need to worry about your car, living arrnagements, shopping and cooking and you live alone, its all down to you ...including keeping your earnings so you can survive OK.
  • lostinrates
    lostinrates Posts: 55,283 Forumite
    I've been Money Tipped!
    .

    That's what makes it hard to make decisions - as soon as a decision is made, something big changes and it creates a problem as you can't undo the decision just made. Trying to minimise decisions/changes at the moment because of the ability for decisions/actions to come back and bite you


    that's life...and what we were saying to you when Old wanted to leave where she was. Sadly, its more likely things change for the worse than the better, especially when life changes so dramatically and you rely on someone elses reseorces of ''doing stuff'' and ''sorting stuff''
  • tomterm8
    tomterm8 Posts: 5,892 Forumite
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    At any rate, I don't understand why pastures new isn't eligible for Attendance Allowance, which should help some way towards her living expenses, and working persons tax credit etc.
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  • GDB2222
    GDB2222 Posts: 26,498 Forumite
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    I've no idea. I've also no idea how good the mains into the house is .... but I'd imagine it'd involve stripping wallpaper, redecorating ... mess, madness and mayhem - with carers coming in/going out and Doctors dropping in etc. Which wouldn't be ideal.

    When I said run the new cables in trunking, I meant to just stick the trunking on the surface. That's cheap, ugly but effective, and involves minimal disruption.
    No reliance should be placed on the above! Absolutely none, do you hear?
  • vivatifosi
    vivatifosi Posts: 18,746 Forumite
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    Hertfordshire nice people, look to the skies on Friday night at 8pm. 500 chinese lanterns will be released for a young Hemel man, Billy Dove, who was stabbed to death for trying to break up a fight. He was only 21. I didn't know Billy, but some of my friends and family did and what happened was an absolute tragedy.
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  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    tomterm8 wrote: »
    At any rate, I don't understand why pastures new isn't eligible for Attendance Allowance, which should help some way towards her living expenses, and working persons tax credit etc.
    To get carer's allowance you have to be earning under £100/week, I was on more.

    To get WTC you need to have some clue how much you're earning and it'd need to be under £13,500, I was on more and as I am self-employed I don't really know how much I've earnt until I've done a tax return the following year (not done my 2010-2011 one yet). I was over that limit probably ... although until I do it I won't know. For many self-employed people claiming WTC isn't possible because you're never sure how much you've got really :)
  • PasturesNew
    PasturesNew Posts: 70,698 Forumite
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Hertfordshire nice people, look to the skies on Friday night at 8pm. 500 chinese lanterns will be released for a young Hemel man, Billy Dove, who was stabbed to death for trying to break up a fight. He was only 21. I didn't know Billy, but some of my friends and family did and what happened was an absolute tragedy.
    Sorry, but Chinese lanterns should be banned because of the animal deaths and fires they cause.
  • michaels
    michaels Posts: 29,224 Forumite
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    Also reports of them looking like distress flares to Coast Guards. However this does not mean that it is not a good cause.
    Sorry, but Chinese lanterns should be banned because of the animal deaths and fires they cause.
    I think....
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,936 Ambassador
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    michaels wrote: »
    Also reports of them looking like distress flares to Coast Guards. However this does not mean that it is not a good cause.

    Don't think there are any coast guards in Hertfordshire.:rotfl:
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  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,936 Ambassador
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    vivatifosi wrote: »
    Hertfordshire nice people, look to the skies on Friday night at 8pm. 500 chinese lanterns will be released for a young Hemel man, Billy Dove, who was stabbed to death for trying to break up a fight. He was only 21. I didn't know Billy, but some of my friends and family did and what happened was an absolute tragedy.

    How far away can you see chinese lanterns?
    I'm a Forum Ambassador on the housing, mortgages & student money saving boards. I volunteer to help get your forum questions answered and keep the forum running smoothly. Forum Ambassadors are not moderators and don't read every post. If you spot an illegal or inappropriate post then please report it to forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com (it's not part of my role to deal with this). Any views are mine and not the official line of MoneySavingExpert.com.
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