Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

lostinrates wrote: »

There's not enough reasonable money to cater to my purchasing wants or whims. :rotfl: but my needs are ok. Especially considering how little I put in the pot since early days.

I actually wish there was a "luxury" moneysaving board on here.

I do drool over some things, usually watches for me or sparkly things for Mrs McT, and either wait for them to come down in price or buy second hand later.

Of course I also find this a useful way of determining whether or not I really like them enough to buy, if I still drool over them two or three years later I probably do.

Suspect if I was rich, I'd have drawers full of the damn things I never wore.

lostinrates

HAMISH_MCTAVISH wrote: »

I actually wish there was a "luxury" moneysaving board on here.

I do drool over some things, usually watches for me or sparkly things for Mrs McT, and either wait for them to come down in price or buy second hand later.

Of course I also find this a useful way of determining whether or not I really like them enough to buy, if I still drool over them two or three years later I probably do.

Suspect if I was rich, I'd have drawers full of the damn things I never wore.

Maybe you'd have drawers ful of stuff you don't wear.

I'd be in my amethyst bath daily.



I'd love to go to Mayr clinic for a few months, or a week every month for a while. That's the sort of thing big money would change for me tonight. I miss the sort of doctors I had access to originally. My old private gp would be in horror over the current food situation and how I'm starting to react about it.

Spirit_2

michaels wrote: »

I find it sad when people with kids see little of them because they put their jobs first. I wonder if it is a class thing, if you are used to the nanny / public / boarding school concept then you expect to devolve responsibility for them to others?

I was definitely not used to a devolved concept outside of the family. It was the 80s/90s and no one had invented flexible working. I had been the first female graduate trainee and worked hard to deliver, including working though the night:eek:and working weekends.

Made me a bit rubbish at mothering though:(.

vivatifosi

I'm playing catch up, so apologies if thread has moved on and these end up in a strange place and out of flow. I've still got about five or six pages at least before I'm current.

lostinrates wrote: »

Quickes way to wind DH up ......discussion on the merits of kenny g. I'm not a kenny g fan in the least but if I need to animate DH I can pretend I am for a while

My dad doesn't own any music, never listens to music on the radio, and is the single most umbilical person you could ever meet. But he really likes Kenny G. It's the only music he's shown any interest in since about 40 years ago when he liked Mantovani. I therefore see Kenny G' s role, rightly or wrongly, as producing music for people who don't like music. My mum and her family otoh, v musical.

silvercar wrote: »

I balance the work that brings in the money with the voluntary stuff I do.

I feel very lucky that I am in a position to have the time to do both, but it does make for a good life balance.


OH gets moody times from his work, but he loves to travel and his work gives him that opportunity, so again the good is balancing the bad.


I'm sure viva said she also has one job that she only does to provide a reliable income.

Absolutely correct. Library job is purely to get some money in while doing something that is fun, which is why I put up with rubbish wages. It's the worst paid job I've ever had.

zagubov wrote: »

It's quite routine in the US. For a nation that seems to overindulge, they don't half consume preventative medicine. You'd struggle to get a kid into school if the vaccine record's not sparkling, everybody over 50s on the flu vaccine, and yes aspirins are givern out like vitamins.

Even low dosage aspirin can be damaging to the gut and joints. My pal started to develop gout and had to give it up. I'd consider it (and should provbably start soon) but would chat to my doc first. It's a bit like HRT - probably better for some than others.

America has a v different attitude to drugs to here. I think this is one of the great positives of the NHS, YOU don't have the constant, in your face push of drug companies on TV. In the US, Bayer frequently advertises its aspirin products, even though long out of patent, and you'll be watching tv of an evening while being offered a cure for every ailment, such that drugs are sold as the solution. Never exercise, never other lifestyle changes.

Similarly OTC remedies. You wouldn't pop into a chemist for paracetamol, but one of the painkiller brands such as Advil or Aleve. Pharmaceuticals have their place, but I think they are oversold in the USA to an extent that just doesn't happen here.

PasturesNew

I'd like a life where I could afford to join a local club for a hobby (e.g. kayaking) and could afford to buy the basic clothing/equipment needed and to be able to afford to attend club nights and buy half a cider at the end of the night. Also, to be able to afford to spend £15 or so on the club Xmas meal out at a pub.

I'd like to be able to afford to put fuel in the car to travel to see people, family, etc if I wanted to (say £50-60 a trip) - and to take up the offers of "free holidays" in the Channel Islands and the States. A free holiday costs a fortune in travel, host gift, doing stuff while you're there, so the last thing it is is free.

I'd like to be able to go on the occasional day course, or week-long summer school course in subjects of interest.... probably £50 and £500 respectively.

And, I'd like to be able to accept the invites to go and meet NPs.

I guess ... £1000/month after rent/council tax would be more than enough to do all that and more.... I'd also be able to do that strange thing others do, if I had that much: saving.

lostinrates

Spirit wrote: »

I was definitely not used to a devolved concept outside of the family. It was the 80s/90s and no one had invented flexible working. I had been the first female graduate trainee and worked hard to deliver, including working though the night:eek:and working weekends.

Made me a bit rubbish at mothering though:(.

And I think for some families getting outside help is the BEST parenting decision going. For all sorts of reasons, not just cynical ones.


My father had never imagined he'd have a child at a fee paying school le alone boarding or doing things that fostered curtain skills or riding horses, let alone doing something like playing polo..


Tbh. I do wonder sometimes what my parents talked about, ever. It's not even like they had a shared interest or passion.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

... playing polo....

I don't think I even knew that polo existed until I was in my 20s/30s.

I knew there was a thing called water polo, that the older and bigger boys at the swimming club played some nights - as those club sessions were sometimes after swimming so you'd see the goal posts go up in the pool.

michaels

lostinrates wrote: »

Tbh. I do wonder sometimes what my parents talked about, ever. It's not even like they had a shared interest or passion.

Given you are here LIr I think there must have been some sharing of passion

zagubov

Found this on another thread

PasturesNew

I'd also do random things that intrigued me .... like go here tomorrow
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2542197/Jurassic-Coast-packed-treasure-hunters-ichthyosaur-skeleton-worth-15-000-discovered-Boxing-Day-walk.html

Not interested in fossils, but I'd like to go down and take a look at the beach, the fossilhunters - perchance to see some that others have found. Then have a nice pub lunch, back on the beach for the afternoon, taking photos, then home to a tasty tea

Total cost to do that would be about £40 for fuel, car parking, cheapish pub lunch. Then, with money, one can look around the shops, picking up stuff that catches your eye, which can be another £6-10.