Preparedness for when

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For anyone interested, Aldi have reduced the price of their Ceramic Knife sets (1x 5.75" blade, 1x 4.75" blade, and a peeler), from £12-99 to £8-99.

I've bought a set, and they are razor sharp. :cool:

Alloneword

GreyQueen wrote: »

Sign o' the times. Just seen three rough-looking geezers out on the street peering into a carrier bag. Quoth one to the other; there's £30's worth of meat in there, mate, yours for a tenner.

We get that all the time round our way people selling meat/cheese/bacon/razors, hell if you buy of them and they trust you they will even nick to order and 90% of the time peeps want food, in the good old days it used to be electrical stuff not any more and off course i always say no, as i don't beleive is stealing from a supermarket that only makes £600m in 6 months

mardatha wrote: »

That was 1966.

Yea the year i was born, what a great year that was, and we won the world cup, so in another words, the UK has been useless since i was born :beer:

All1

moneyistooshorttomention

Alloneword wrote: »

they will even nick to order and 90% of the time peeps want food, in the good old days it used to be electrical stuff not any more and off course i always say no, as i don't beleive is stealing from a supermarket that only makes £600m in 6 months



All1

Can tell I've not had my first cup of coffee for the day yet. That has got me wondering exactly how to interpret your post.....:cool:

Errrr....you DONT believe in it and don't do it (by proxy) do you?:cool:

parsniphead

fuddle wrote: »

Because parents born in the 70's, in my experience (generalising of course!) have been brought up in a society that 'You want? You can have, you deserve... and i'll pocket some as you get what you want "here!" Our whole economy is built on consumerism so yes, the 30-40 somethings think they should have, and do have and now their children should have because it feels good to the self esteem. It's not a very pleasant place to be but it's the normal for so many people I once knew.

The stretch limo's are coming from a good place, it's just skewed ideals. For me the very thought of putting make up on my 11 year olds face is not worth thinking about, let alone a prom dress etc but I can't say I would have thought that 6 - 10 years back. Definitely sobering. :cool:

I don't often comment on here but read regularly. I was born in 1970 and the mindset mentioned above is about as far off as it could be. I saw my parents struggle for many, many years and because of that I'm very frugal and very anti consumerist. We didn't get loads as children but I had a great childhood and couldn't have asked for better parents.

What does upset me is just as my parents got to a point in their lives where they had worked hard enough and things were easier and they could begin to enjoy themselves dad died. He was only 48 at the time. So even though I'm frugal and I bring up my little boy the same way life can be very short. I think it's about finding a balance where you are living and experiencing life.

GreyQueen

We used to have a door-to-door service for stolen supermarket goods, blinking numptie used to come to each flat with a couple of carrier bags of things like pkts of bacon, all in-date Tosspots stuff from up the road.

I went up to the store and had a quiet word with their management. The thief didn't live here but we knew his first name. The shop manager said they knew it went on and did their best to stop it, but lots of meat was being stolen. I later saw the thief reported in the paper for doing the same thing.

It annoys me because the cost of the stolen items, and the security measures, is passed across to the rest of us who don't steal and don't receive stolen goods.

ETA; parshiphead, your upbringing sounds pretty similar to mine and about the same period, although I'm blessed to have parents both living. And yes, be thrifty, but remember that life is unpredicatable and don't postpone joy. Bloke my father worked with used to do every hour of overtime he could scrabble to get, his life was going to start in retirement, go travelling, all that stuff. He died less than a week after his retirement started, poor beggar.

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parsniphead wrote: »

I was born in 1970 and the mindset mentioned above is about as far off as it could be.

I agree.

We didn't have much, but we were raised to be responsible, work hard and respect others and the law.

A holiday was, if you were lucky, a few days at the seaside, though, more often than not, just a day trip

We didn't get loads as children but I had a great childhood and couldn't have asked for better parents.

Same here. There was no regular pocket money (we did get a shilling four times a year, from the refund when the meters were emptied), and Christmas was the only time we got much of anything.

So even though I'm frugal and I bring up my little boy the same way life can be very short. I think it's about finding a balance where you are living and experiencing life.

That's my attitude too.

Having had so little as a child (although we never went hungry, or without decent clothing), I like to splash out now and again, and take holidays.

ivyleaf

GQ "Remember that life is unpredictable and don't postpone joy"

I love that Thank you.

Doveling

As I was proudly pushing my three month old son in his pram,
accompanied by my nineteen year old daughter, we met someone I hadn't seen for a number of years.

" Oh, how lovely, two gorgeous daughters and now a beautiful grandson!"

"Errm, well actually....." :rotfl:

On the subject of feeling that you have to keep up with people.
Some folk seem to equate self worth and import by what they have and how much it cost. This has been the same throughout the ages.

Sounds a bit dippy hippy (which I am) but, when you are content within yourself, enough is a sufficiency.
Don't get me wrong, I love nice things. Just quality not ostentatious stuff.

And lots of nice nail varnishes obviously:rotfl:

katsu

Doveling I agree with you; nice nail varnish is a great psychological booster for me and I think works out as a reasonably priced treat as it lasts nearly forever. I guess I should add large bottles of nail varnish remover to my prepping :rotfl:

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I'm a child of 1948 and I can remember my mother grasping with both hands at anything that arrived on the scene to stop her having to do any work to feed, clothe or clean us. Birds Eye and Vesta were greeted with absolute glee and anything that meant she had more time to sit and read her comics and eat her sweeties got incorporated into life as fast as she could. She was an abysmal housekeeper, all our clothes were held together with safety pins until I got old enough to learn to sew and as soon as my baby brother arrived on the scene I got to cook, wash, iron and do the housework and do the weekly shop and without a list, just got given the money and told to go and get what we needed. She couldn't afford to have one of everything new because she smoked incessantly and spent a small fortune on chocolate, magazines etc. but that didn't stop her from trying and we had debts that meant 'hiding' when the collectors came to call, she always managed to find the money for the football pools though no matter what else didn't get paid. Most embarrassing as a child was being sent to the local shop for cigarettes for her 'on the book' because she didn't have the money left to pay and being given a lecture in front of a shop full of people on how I was to tell her that she couldn't have any more until she'd paid off her bill, for which I got a slap when I got home! She was born in 1920 and would have fitted wonderfully well into the 'must have' society of today and would probably have had massive debts as well.

My eldest girlie arrived in 1978 and we weren't very well off at that point but we managed by living sensibly on what we did have, I had many friends who didn't though as they had the beginnings of the 'want it all' madness that became universal a few years later. We were happy with second hand, got given lots of 'loan' items as baby grew and she and her sister who arrived 5 years later both had a frugal but happy childhood, lots of craft from what these days is waste, packets etc, lots of walks in the woods, being with us on the allotment, making tents from old sheets in the garden, what our old mothercare fire guard didn't get turned into too, zoo bars, boats, cars, space ships, and even fancy dress costumes were made from crepe paper, old sheets, anything that we had in. Books from the Library, friends to play with not a sad childhood by any means and holidays were a week in this country if we were in a position to take one financially, not the whizzing off to Benidorm or Disneyland that everyone else felt the need to do. I guess there are some of us that are just out of step with what is fashionable and considered socially acceptable in any age, just as there will always be those who live beyond sense and indulge themselves as fully as they want to. To me to live beneath whatever means you do have and to make as good a life as possible through your own travail and efforts will always be the best choice.