What the...?

Nelski

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

Yeah, like the time they moved the rape thread there. Much better.

well maybe if more of the people who are looking for advice on something absolutely not moneysaving want their very own counselling/advice place then there could be a sub board in the arms but the regular posters are a minority of people who visit the site. Many more visit after maybe a google or a recommendation - shouldn't it be easy to see where the real money advice for your situation is and where the "Anything Else" stuff is?

rising_from_the_ashes wrote: »

I agree to some degree Nelski but I think the big issue (for me anyway) is that there are already boards for those type of things eg I go to the DFW boards to look for help with my debts .... I go to the Old Style board for help with cutting food costs / cooking etc and the Pets board for cutting pet costs - I would never come to a "singles" board for those things.

i guess we will have to see how it pans out but lets a least give a new idea a chance

PasturesNew

shegirl wrote: »

But single people without kids get benefits too!So,it's not due to being single it's due to not being on benefits...

Agree with the possibility of it being more workable, if you have a partner, to have a reduced wage to study BUT there are still ways and means when single - evening study or distance learning.

Being single needn't be a barrier to anything

Singles working full-time and running a household alone, won't be getting any benefits (£6.25/hour for 40 hours/week takes them over the threshold).

Evening study is a rarity in itself. Distance learning is possible, but very long-winded and lonely - and, for most, unaffordable.

lostinrates

Nelski wrote: »

Well I will be mostly out on a limb and say its about time

I hate the way the families board went down the route of another general chat board where it was actually difficult to pick out the posts that had any money saving tips/advice in at all almongst the moan threads and the general chit chat. Dont get me wrong I love a good natter about nothing important but that has a place and that place is the arms. No other forum that I know that has a specific function has the option to chat about x factor or celebrity or my dreadful day/dreadful partner/awful kids anywhere other than the allocated place.

I dont know if the plan is to put the focus back on the real purpose that sat behind this forum or not but I hope it is. I am single and I do think that we can benefit from others experience and ideas and what I love about my personal freedom is that I can go and look at other boards too..........wow it may open some peoples minds up a little.:D

I do remember uproar when the suggestion that a lot of the threads should be in the arms was made before (e.g. "this is my home - I cant go anywhere else" :rotfl:) so I will wait and see how it goes but please lets get back to some money saving boards and a nice chat joint for the social stuff.

Ducks quick and prepares to escape to the arms .........:rotfl::rotfl:

I rarely use the arms. Wich I think is a shame. Lots of interesting people post there. But when I have I have felt things....um, reach a different level...a great one for the users there, but perhaps why so many chat threads resist the move.

Perhaps the real answer would be another division to the arms, for a slightly different user group. Not sure how that would work though.......

shegirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Singles working full-time and running a household alone, won't be getting any benefits (£6.25/hour for 40 hours/week takes them over the threshold).

Evening study is a rarity in itself. Distance learning is possible, but very long-winded and lonely - and, for most, unaffordable.

But the benefits are due to finances/children not being single itself!

Distance learning,well it depends what you do.Distance degree courses you get student loans for now.

If I ever blamed anything in my life on being single I'd shoot myself

cbrown372

Nelski wrote: »

Well I will be mostly out on a limb and say its about time

I hate the way the families board went down the route of another general chat board where it was actually difficult to pick out the posts that had any money saving tips/advice in at all almongst the moan threads and the general chit chat. Dont get me wrong I love a good natter about nothing important but that has a place and that place is the arms. No other forum that I know that has a specific function has the option to chat about x factor or celebrity or my dreadful day/dreadful partner/awful kids anywhere other than the allocated place.

I dont know if the plan is to put the focus back on the real purpose that sat behind this forum or not but I hope it is. I am single and I do think that we can benefit from others experience and ideas and what I love about my personal freedom is that I can go and look at other boards too..........wow it may open some peoples minds up a little.:D

I do remember uproar when the suggestion that a lot of the threads should be in the arms was made before (e.g. "this is my home - I cant go anywhere else" :rotfl:) so I will wait and see how it goes but please lets get back to some money saving boards and a nice chat joint for the social stuff.

Ducks quick and prepares to escape to the arms .........:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm guessing the family board became less money saving orientated due to Andrea saying some time ago that it was okay?

I certainly wouldn't want to discuss any family problems in the arms.

shegirl

cbrown372 wrote: »

I'm guessing the family board became less money saving orientated due to Andrea saying some time ago that it was okay?

I certainly wouldn't want to discuss any family problems in the arms.

God no,can you imagine it? Adey with his fatherly arm trying to make things better :rotfl:

Nelski

lostinrates wrote: »

I rarely use the arms. Wich I think is a shame. Lots of interesting people post there. But when I have I have felt things....um, reach a different level...a great one for the users there, but perhaps why so many chat threads resist the move.

Perhaps the real answer would be another division to the arms, for a slightly different user group. Not sure how that would work though.......

well you say that but I have seen some pretty mindboggling discussions on this board in the past:rotfl::rotfl: people are people really and there will always be people you dont take to and people you do but perhaps if more variety of threads were in the arms from the people who who will only post in here it would serve its real function which is anything other than moneysaving. Change will always get resistance but some change is good I for one hope this is one of them

*max*

I can't even remember what the old boards were called.

daska

Have to admit I don't feel comfortable with the changes yet. Where do you go to post about the trials and tribulations of being a disabled single parent with money worries?

Valli

Person_one wrote: »

Hmm, trying to figure out what's meant by this...

Oh, is it my user name?

Yes, it is!