The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Aesop

OliveOyl wrote: »

I just watched as the staff unpacked and sorted The bags were ALL opened and pilfered from, :mad: the contents are dusty so there is a great laundry push going on

They send a great big THANK-YOU, they said there would only have been the government food parcels for them this Christmas without this donation You so rock :beer:

:mad::mad: to the pilfering

and :T:T:T:T:T you wonderful matrix women

Firewalker

thriftyscotslass wrote: »

Found a neat little linkie for FW and anyone elso who's interested of course. Have a go at it, it's an eye-opening exercise - we come in at 11% ie earning more than 10% of the UK population, if I take off our housing costs we drop down to 2% :eek:. Could explain why my trainers have holes in them :rotfl:.

Thanks, Thrifty, I did it. Interesting.

FW

groatie_queen

Most of all :T:T:T:T:T to Olive Oyl and Popeye, who've done so much of the hard work to make it happen. And had the delays and disappointments to contend with, and the packing and unpacking.

So it is indeed happening in time for Christmas - 2011! :rotfl::rotfl:

Memory_Girl

Well I am in the bottom 5% of the population - yet I FEEL rich. Kind of:cool:

Well when I think of the kids waiting for a govt parcel for Christmas I feel extremely rich.

How interesting the Universe sends us his exercise and and exercise in thankfulness in the same day .................off to ponder.:cool:

Two walls and a door erected now - woop!!!

Now I need to find a crowbar to remove a piece of skirting I missed.

MG

OliveOyl_2

Memory_Girl wrote: »

Well I am in the bottom 5% of the population - yet I FEEL rich. Kind of:cool:

Well when I think of the kids waiting for a govt parcel for Christmas I feel extremely rich.

How interesting the Universe sends us his exercise and and exercise in thankfulness in the same day .................off to ponder.:cool:

MG

MG you have an absolute gift for putting it into words.

Piccies on FB, I'll try and put one here too. oh rats I have to learn how to photoshop-thingy?

Popeye on his way home - he'll show me how, and I've made him a strawberry gateau for his birthday, he'll be so impressed (maid made the cake while I was out :rotfl: I can't bake for a toffee)

groatie_queen

Happy birthday Popeye! :j:j:beer::j:j

maryb

Got the magazine and loved the photo of you all but the text was a bit confusing. Shame they couldn't have made more of your story

thriftyscotslass

OliveOyl wrote: »

MG you have an absolute gift for putting it into words.

Absolutely :T.

Was showing ds as he is very interested in the "We are the 99%" and "Occupy" movements (typical Aspie social conscience). I was trying to explain what it all meant and where we sat on the 99% and he made me howl with laughter. He goes in all seriousness .... but Mum if we are 11% doesn't that mean we should have asbos, be uneducated, not work, etc, etc. A salient lesson learnt on not believing the politicians and talking heads that dominate our media, methinks :rotfl:.

Do you know, I can feel myself returning to my student activist days

Memory_Girl

These "asbo" thingies - how long do they take in a slow cooker??

Maryb - yup!!told you the story was a bit "vanilla" - but the upshot of it is that the "real story" still hasn't been told in the mainstream media ................ and I got £200 towards my winter fuel bills:j

So I am off to make my two young men (who are officially "children in poverty") their dinner in preparation for our "DAY OF PUDSEY" tomorrow. Its a INSET day here tomorrow - so Gran has treated them to some CIN stuff and we will have a day long treasure hunt, make cupcakes with yellow and dots icing an watch TV with a homemade pizza.

................ and the boys can see what children in "real" poverty have to put up with ( as opposed to us who are just skint and shall be back earning soon IYSWIM)

Actually reading it back its pretty confusing - Sorry

MG

ETA Happy Birthday Popeye luv

Aesop

MG

just been out and got mag, scrabbled around in bag for 2p as didn't realise mag had gone up so much!

I thought it was a good article but could have gone into so much more detail, but as you are sharing the page with someone else, and they are limited for words, cannot be helped. It would have been great if people could understand a bit more about being thrifty etc, but I think it put the message out there, that you are now debt free, so it can be done and we don't need to leave a totally materialistic life.