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ALL housing costs for just £90 a week
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This story today caught my eye. A couple who have lived in a Travelodge for 22 years now - booking far enough in advance they get a room for £15 a night. Not sure about using the Little Chef over the road for all their meals, but hats off to this couple for finding a money-saving solution to their housing needs.
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It was in The Times and The Telegraph as well.
It has the grubby handprints of 'cheap PR' and 'lazy journalist' all over it.
I'd live in a hotel. Not the Travelodge though. Mrs Generali and I investigated whether it was possible to get a good enough deal out of one of those apparthotels places to make it possible to live in The City Mon-Thur and then commute out to Northern France. It wasn't.0 -
SO its a bedsit for £455 per month. Its not that cheap really is it?0
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You get breakfast, bills and all your cleaning thrown in too.
Possibly the option of room service (never stayed in a Travelodge so don't know if they do it).
Sounds good to me. I wonder what deal The Savoy would do for me and the family until we go to Aus?0 -
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SO its a bedsit for £455 per month. Its not that cheap really is it?
I'm sure the TL is better quality than most bed-sits.
No Council Tax
No Gas bill (free heating and how water)
No Electric bill
No Phone bill
No maintenance/decorating costs
I can see why it is a good deal for these people. Maybe more elderly people should follow suit, freeing up houses for younger generations. Just £100K invested properly would cover the £455 per month. Many elderly have houses worth much more than £100K.
Top idea for MSEers.
GGThere are 10 types of people in this world. Those who understand binary and those that don't.0 -
You get breakfast, bills and all your cleaning thrown in too.
Possibly the option of room service (never stayed in a Travelodge so don't know if they do it).
Sounds good to me. I wonder what deal The Savoy would do for me and the family until we go to Aus?
brekkie at the Travelodge is extra and they certainly don't do room service!
seriously though, I could not think of a sadder existence than to live in one of those places!0 -
When I were a lad, my Grand-parents used to invite the family to a former spa hotel for their wedding anniversary. It was a faded-glory, Victorian place but there were a fair number of permanent residents there, elderly women mainly.
The last couple of times we went it had been bought up by a chain & turned into a conference type place; it was, of course, done up, but lost a lot of its charm. I always wondered what happened to those old dears."Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
"I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.0 -
Probably works out cheaper than a retirement home and without that 'God's Waiting Room' feel to it.
I'm warming to this idea you know. Not a Travelodge but hotel living in general sounds very civilised. You could even pick out 2. (UK) winter in Sydney and summer in England for example.
Sell the house and stick the money in index linked bonds to pay for it. Never worry about a bill or upkeep or anything like that ever again.0 -
brekkie at the Travelodge is extra and they certainly don't do room service!
seriously though, I could not think of a sadder existence than to live in one of those places!
Whenever I end up in one for a few days, by day three I'm gnawing at my own arm & by day five I've bought a bottle of nice red & am trying to score enough barbiturates."Mrs. Pench, you've won the car contest, would you like a triumph spitfire or 3000 in cash?" He smiled.
Mrs. Pench took the money. "What will you do with it all? Not that it's any of my business," he giggled.
"I think I'll become an alcoholic," said Betty.0
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