Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

GDB2222

The two deliveries are on separate days, which is a PITA. Can you get both deliveries at the same time and still get the £20 off the second one? What happens if they don't have enough stock?

mystic_trev

michaels wrote: »

To get the rest of the 16.2k you will need 3 kids...is there anything I could do to help you out there?

A Vasectomy might be a good idea :rotfl:

Great article by the way!

michaels

GDB2222 wrote: »

The two deliveries are on separate days, which is a PITA. Can you get both deliveries at the same time and still get the £20 off the second one? What happens if they don't have enough stock?

Amex were doing a cardmember offer of £15 off your first £60 spend at Waitrose, obviosuly with two orders you can use to seperate amex cards if ti is still on. Also last time I was a new customer a few months ago you could get a code for £20 off your first shop as well as the champoo voucher and the quidco. We bought about 8 of the massive boxes of washing ppowder that were down from £19.50 to £10.50 on a Tesco price match. Then they failed to deliver a fresh whole chicken (it was on half price offer) so the total came to less than £60 for to trigger the Amex offer. Complained to Waitrose who sent me a £15 voucher, complained to Amex who credited the £15 as a good will leaving me free to do the Waitrose code stack all over again

michaels

silvercar wrote: »

Kids cost more to run than the government will ever give you.

Plus the government thinks that they can stop funding kids when they turn 18 but expect parents to keep on giving...

This (the first bit, don't yet kow abot the second bit) is so true.

Clothes, food, having a big house, having a big car, school uniform, guides/brownies/cubs/football/piano/clarinet/violin/ballet/dance/drama/football/singing/cookery/netball/football all cost a fortune
Plus school dinners, school trips, birthday parties, birthday presents, firends birthday parties, holidays...you get the picture.

One advantage of a low income is that you get half price school music lessons Sadly school dinners are based on a different means test.

ukmaggie45

kabayiri wrote: »

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I can sit on the front balcony at her house and just stare at the 3 sisters mountains. When I glance down at my watch several hours have passed.

I do like the Peak district, but it just doesn't compare sadly.

I can enjoy watching the ships on the Mersey from my bed, and the clouds over the distant mountains in Wales. :j

At caravan I get to view Snowdon from my bed, watch the birds on the feeders, the butterflies on the buddleia, and when I get up can see even more plants and insects of the interesting not scary variety. But do still have to be careful about biters - seem to be getting more and more sensitive to mozzies or whatever they are that seem to love biting me... Nobody else visiting caravan has been bitten by whatever it is!

Sorry, prob not quite on topic, but I'm sure you're all used to that from me now! :rotfl:

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Most of which most kids didn't have/do when we were growing up. Those are "posh people" things. At the schools I went to it was only the "posh kids" who played an instrument (especially violin) or did ballet.

Clothes were second hand; food was basic foodstuffs, didn't have a big house, no big car, school uniform was donated/2nd hand.

School dinners we had/paid for. School trips were for the wealthier, birthday parties were kids at your house eating sandwiches/biscuits. Holidays were £14/week in a caravan without electricity or a loo in a farmer's field in England.

Those things that are "expensive" are wants/choices, not needs.

Didn't you have a 3 bed house for the 4 of you?

School dinners are £500 per child per year.

School uniforms don't last long enough to be of any second hand value. Nowadays even unbranded clothes put you at a major socal disadvantage.

Everyone goes on the school trips, their is no provison for kids to miss them

Parties if you go you have to take a present. If you don't have one you feel very disadvantaged as everyone else does.

Holidays are a week in Devon at my parents but even then just the petrol costs a fortune and it is hard not to do any activities when you are there.

Extra-curicular activities are optional but also impact on university admissions....

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

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Our activities were: sitting on the beach if it was sunny; walking round towns if it rained. Sitting in the caravan watching the rain if it was raining a LOT. If it was raining on the Friday we drove home. No telly as the caravans didn't have electricity.
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PN, you would have been horrified by DD's prom a few weeks back.

I confess to being uncomfortable by it all.

It was very American : pre and post prom parties; travel to the prom in everything from Ferrari to tractor (we had a hippy style VW camper van booked). The girls' dresses also meant plenty of forking out.

Employers have referred to the current school outcrop as the expectation generation because they expect everything to just land on their laps.

I suspect they have a point.

LydiaJ

PasturesNew wrote: »

Studies, offices..... I thought I was posh for having a spare bedroom!

Not counting bathrooms, (dedicated) kitchens and utilities ... how many rooms do NPs have?

I've three: one downstairs, two upstairs.

Seven: four upstairs and three downstairs (not counting kitchen, bathrooms, utility, hallway etc). If we count the conservatory as half a room, that's 7.5, which is 2.5 rooms per person.

Nikkster wrote: »

Ok, photo time

I like the colour

Nikkster

Doozergirl wrote: »

Can we bring the Rockies here?

Can we bring a few Canadian men too please?

kabayiri

PasturesNew wrote: »

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He's probably gay - the best ones are.
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I frequently hear this assertion.

Are you saying us boring hetero's lack style and presence?

(in my case, this is admittedly true!)