Hands up economy making you sick?

ILW

Generali wrote: »

.....and the more solutions put forward by Governments to bail out the indebted are enacted the worse things seem to get.

I'm starting to think that it's only when everyone is bust that they'll get the message. The solvent bailing out the insolvent is the contagion.

Or as appears, the insovent bailing out the more insolvent.

Going4TheDream

Cleaver wrote: »

Here's a brilliant silver lining. If you're at home today or at work, pop to the shops hen you get a spare moment and spend a few quid on cake ingredients. Then tomorrow morning make some fairy cakes with your 5-year old. I guarantee that the joy from this will make you forget about Italy's presidential woes.

And on that note I'm off work today, so I'm heading out for a full english from the caff around the corner. How brilliant is that?

Must be 'no work friday!' I am off to Liverpool to visit my daughter later and its going to be a baking Saturday! She has a list of 3 or 4 cakes she wants me to help her bake. It is a great way to spend 'quality time I agree, even though she is 29 and not 5! And there is nothing like a gorgeous home baked cake to make life feel good!

doire_2

AliceJenkins wrote: »

Just way to much negativity.

The fact the economy has risen since the crash, seems to delude this forum.

Can you expand on that point?

crazyguy

Whats the point in moaning about something beyond your control surely if the moaners on here put as much effort into another task as they do moaning then they may get a bit more out of life.

ILW

crazyguy wrote: »

Whats the point in moaning about something beyond your control surely if the moaners on here put as much effort into another task as they do moaning then they may get a bit more out of life.

Moaning can be quite enjoyable.

crazyguy

ILW wrote: »

Moaning can be quite enjoyable.

Point taken Victor Meldrew,

Going4TheDream

gailey wrote: »

Dont know if its just me but

I wake up in morning put on breckfast news its more bad news.

within the last month had

1)euro summit-save the euro?

2)shock greek referendum and chaos!

3)The g20 summit-again failed to sort themselves out.

4)greek bonds went up, pm forced out!

5)new power but bond market still not lowered and not sure if greece has actually finalised next bailout payment they running out of money soon!

6)bond markets move on to italy bercelesconi forced out!
seems poor day for democracy!
so they got new no elected powers and interest rates on bonds still high so problem not solved!

7)now bond market moved onto spain and france going up!

8)our bank of england reveiws our growth forcast.
admits they dont know whats happening tommorow.
more qe as its not working!

high unemployment figures!

channel 4news said germany wont act with ecb.

will they eventually?

how bad will it get

if contagion spreads will uk be next?

we certainly vunerable.

we sold northern rock at a loss!

theres no good news.

every cloud has silver lining cant find one.

every day I think what next.
Think should stop watching bbc news with gloomy peston and sky who over dramatise things.

c4 and newsnight seems best coverage but even thats gloomy.

I know I shouldent stress over what cant control.

But feel like its watching a financial car crash happening.

im 31 and cant remember everything being so uncertain with no real sense of authority as no one can agree its complete mess.

when they talk about lost decade I fear they right.
im just glad my eldest 5 and maybe by time she finishes school there maybe better opportunities.

A friend of mine had a liking for the falling down water, it got a bit out of hand and eventually decided to deal with the problem

They showed me the serentity prayer that is used as the AA, I am not religious but I liked the concept

God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
Courage to change the things I can,
And wisdom to know the difference.

I often think of this when some a**ehole cuts me up when driving, I just think now oh well, its happened I cant change it, and try not to let it ruin my day.

Same with the news..... some stuff really isn't worth the mental energy. I might have an opinion but I don't obsess

Life is too short to worry about stuff you cannot influence or have no control over.

gailey_2

Thanks guys

just be nice to wake up to some good news for once!

Im try to be positive.

not on benefits hubby works hard his jobs thankfully safe.
unsure about any pay increase next year.

Im looking for part time job to give family extra income.

we get buy as budget everything, we paying off some debts .

hope to buy house 1 day!think 2018 a possibility seems long way off.

want to start building up some savings for rainy day despite the crap interest rate.

did cheer myself up wed morning with a fry up.
plan to do some baking this weekend and make xmas pressies.

going to throw myself into xmas stuff as that normally cheers me up.

looking foward to taking kids to see santa.

watched too big to fail last night on sky atlantic that really is a scary story but thinking film made about eurozone be even worse.
couldent really make up whats happened over last few weeks.
its like they all going mad.

so its time to batten down the hatches and get through the next few years.

charlie1973

I (if naive) have stopped watching the news for now, I am concentrating on my family, we have little control over what goes on out there, I am in agreement, life is too short!

Thrugelmir

gailey wrote: »

so its time to batten down the hatches and get through the next few years.

My late grandmother (born 1896) and lived 5 months shy of achieving a 100. Always said. "Enjoy today as it may be your last".

Considering what she lived through in her lifetime. Today's problems pale into insiginificance.