Only freedom will do

edinburgher

Tried to PM you one. In my Google drive, so not posting in thread in case it lets people see my spreadsheets by mistake!

smallholdingsister

That is something I would do.

edinburgher

smallholdingsister wrote: »

That is something I would do.

So, could you see spreadsheets, or just the photo I sent the link to?

We have arranged for the tree surgeon to nuke our leylandii, now to get some fencing quotes. I'd like to have 2 options in case one turns out to be dear. Plan A would be vertical slat fence, Plan B would be a closeboard panel fence (am I right in thinking that panel fences are more prone to storm damage?)

Parents are collecting our old TV and DVD player tomorrow and in the spirit of mutual clearing out, we're taking some old storage baskets from their basement for DD's bedroom cupboard

Getting there.

slowlyfading

I hope you're feeling better

choccielover

edinburgher wrote: »

Tried to PM you one. In my Google drive, so not posting in thread in case it lets people see my spreadsheets by mistake!

Is that called doing a weiner these days :rotfl:

AlexLK

Get well soon.

I did think the income of £50,000 was the amount they saw until I read the article and realised they were talking in terms of (joint) pre-tax PAYE salaries. Other income was not mentioned. Further, describing the couples in question as "middle class" was inaccurate. All were the very definition of "working class", in my opinion.

Apart from MSE (which I find rather difficult at times), I talk about money with no one but my wife (and occasionally parents). Talking about money directly to your friends and work colleagues surely is rather vulgar.

I cannot see how having interests gives me a different focus to most? Surely, we all have our own interests?

smallholdingsister

I couldn't see spreadsheets Ed.

edinburgher

choccielover wrote: »

Is that called doing a weiner these days :rotfl:

I don't get it

AlexLK wrote: »

Get well soon.

• All were the very definition of "working class", in my opinion
• Talking about money directly to your friends and work colleagues surely is rather vulgar
• I cannot see how having interests gives me a different focus to most?

Thanks Alex.

I'll stop beating around the bush! You can project an elitist attitude on occasion. Two quotes above from your last post alone that support this controversial and never before commented on theory.

Re. the final comment, I'm flagging the fact that you feel comfortable pigeonholing people based on their incomes or lifestyles. I.e. 'they live in a terraced house, they have Sky TV, they listen to rock music' etc. etc. (all made up examples not a million miles away from comments you have made in the past). We'll not have the discussion on 'class' again (been done to death on this thread), but for me it's basically money-signifying (so much you don't need any more/work for it with your brain/work for it with your back).

We all do it to a certain extent (i.e. we playfully take the Mickey out of you). I feel sometimes the difference is that you appear to be making a value judgement about how people live (i.e. some of what they do is 'wrong'), whereas we're just having a laugh with you (some of what he does is whimsical or archaic).

I'm sure it's subconscious, you're a modern day George Orwell:

But there was another and more serious difficulty. Here you come to
the real secret of class distinctions in the West--the real reason why a
European of bourgeois upbringing, even when he calls himself a Communist,
cannot without a hard effort think of a working man as his equal. It is
summed up in four frightful words which people nowadays are chary of
uttering, but which were bandied about quite freely in my childhood. The
words were: The lower classes smell.

edinburgher

So apparently we're not allowed savings any more :mad:

Joking aside, falling interest rates are a real problem. I'll be paying down debt and prefunding S&S investments within an ISA once our regular savers mature.

On the positive side, +£673.44 added to my Pocket Money (my split of the whisky has arrived). House gets £350 odds :beer: Maybe that should be an empty glass... have tucked £100 of my spare money into 2 P2P loans (4 property development loans, a mix of commercial and residential)

mrsp1987

edinburgher wrote: »

So apparently we're not allowed savings any more :mad:

Goddamit! I have one of these! And 2 123 accounts and a Nationwide account. I use the interest from these to use towards overpaying my mortgage. Grumble, grumble, grumble.
If only I had £5000 (well technically I do, I'm just no prepared to use it) I could buy myself out of my current mortgage and it would be easier to overpay as I'd have more disposable income and a lower interest rate. Grumble, grumble, grumble

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