The Matrix - Re-Evolution!!

Helen105

We were watching Children in Need last night and there was a piece on where a boy was explaining what it meant to live in poverty and they had an enormous tv that seemed to be paid for on a PAYG basis and then they were explaining that they sometimes went hungry. DD3 said that although it must be hard she thought that if it was me or the MSE people in that situation we would manage the food a lot better. Didn't it make you want to march into their kitchen's Jamie Oliver style and make them do a proper food plan with soups and pasta etc?
Having done the Where Does Your Salary Stand quiz I know we are very fortunate but our tv cost £5 off ebay rather than increase my credit card debt by another £500.
I don't want to come over like some right wing nutter, I think I am saying that people sometimes make a bad situation much worse for themselves.

Helen105

On a less ranty note, I'm keeping my fingers crossed for Greenbee too and keen to know the news.

Don't worry about disappointing us all if it's not the news you want though.

groatie_queen

Helen, I agree that there is a real need for financial literacy and economic husbandry, which Martin has been campaigning about for a long time. People do need to be properly educated so they can budget and make better choices whatever their income is.

For people who can't afford to go out, and who maybe haven't thought it through, the Trance Machine appears to offer cheap entertainment on the never-never. And certain companies are happy to offer low weekly payments in order to relieve the low-paid/those on benefits of a weekly payment.

But of course TV is basically a medium for whetting people's desires regardless of their ability to fulfill them. For people who are broke and who need to improve their financials , TV seems to me to be the equivalent of placing a juicy steak under a dog's nose and continually whipping it away.

It's all about balance! ETA - we see the great benefit in having TV events like CIN but then there is all the dross - so-called reality progs; and the aspirational unachievable-by-ordinary-mortals stuff that is so seductive but I feel is corrosive ultimately!

gallygirl

Souk08 wrote: »

Had a wee look down the street later and found some fabby Chinese and Indian supermarkets. Im ECTASTIC about this as it means I can get cooking and cheaply. Also found a good few charity shops nearby.

:j:j Heaven :j:j. Do you want a lodger

Dorastar

Also watched Children in Need last night and had a few weeps along the way, dd watched a lot of it too and has asked what we can do to help. She has done things at school and Brownies are doing a coffee evening so she has done invitations for everyone we know.

Dh has gone into work against advice - still in pain and feeling sick and on a 14 hour shift! so am going to try to get loads of housey stuff done so he can crawl back into a nice house at 10pm tonight and Dd and I are working on the menu plan.

Marru

I have here a very tantrumy little girl age 7 who doesn't seem to manage to put a jumper on

Anyway, off to the Finnish School, we will have a flea market there today so I have pile of stuff in the hallway to go. Please can I have some sell the lot vibes.

I have been translating my CV, I must say that after living, thinking and dreaming in Ensligh for last 11 years it doesn't come easily. I have done the start and the finish but now just need to plough through the middle bit.

Ok - jumper went on, and now it came off and got slung across the room - sigh!! Better do breakfast and get going...

ClootiesMum

** Fingers crossed for greenbee**

Didn't watch CIN yesterday - seems harsh but I give to chaity as it is & I just blubb.

But about what Helen's daughter said - I saw a bit of the One Show the other day & Edwina Currie was on getting slated by people by saying that foodbanks aren't necessary these days. I do disagree with this as there are genuine cases of hardship but she went to 1 household that made use of the foodbank & after looking at their house said that if the single Mum couln't afford to feed her kids then why did she keep her dog (which seemingly costs £15pw to feed), why was she using a tumble drier & said the TV they had was bigger than her own. Savings made could pay for food.....
Single Mum maintained she needed these things as her kids had to have what they wanted & Edwina replied that if she can't afford it then they can't have everything.

OMG - I agreed with a Tory...:eek::eek:

gallygirl

ClootiesMum wrote: »

** Fingers crossed for greenbee**

Didn't watch CIN yesterday - seems harsh but I give to chaity as it is & I just blubb.

But about what Helen's daughter said - I saw a bit of the One Show the other day & Edwina Currie was on getting slated by people by saying that foodbanks aren't necessary these days. I do disagree with this as there are genuine cases of hardship but she went to 1 household that made use of the foodbank & after looking at their house said that if the single Mum couln't afford to feed her kids then why did she keep her dog (which seemingly costs £15pw to feed), why was she using a tumble drier & said the TV they had was bigger than her own. Savings made could pay for food.....
Single Mum maintained she needed these things as her kids had to have what they wanted & Edwina replied that if she can't afford it then they can't have everything.

OMG - I agreed with a Tory...:eek::eek:

I don't know which of these is setting the worst example :rotfl:.

Random thought: I am buying new slippers today. These ones stink

greenbee

Stayed in bed late to avoid the issue, but I've done the test and it's definitely negative must have been an evaporation line. I still have to do another one on Wednesday but it's probably for the best all things considered. I'll just have to resubmit my order and when I do I'll make sure I request one from the same batch as MGs

So I need to summon up the energy an enthusiasm to drag myself out of bed and carry on with the decuttering and decorating that SunFlower mentioned as I can barely get into the study, the house is filthy and my curtain poles still aren't up...

Souk08

GB, resubmit that order, get your house in order (in all senses, health, decorating and dare I say OH) and get yourself one like MG's.

Gally, I have a lovely spare room for any of you Matrixiettes at any time. It has a table in it which doesn't tone with the bedding which Im terribly bothered about, but I suspect you lot might not be :rotfl:

MG, thanks for the offer and once things aren't so mental I'd deffo love to see the house and meet DS2. I promise to bring wine and things from the shop!!!

Lovely bright and mild morning here so am lazing with Saturday Kitchen and a brew and then off out to meet Fluin Fresian for lunch and another friend for drinks. X