About working once retired.

lessonlearned

Well. If you work hard and get fit, we will allow you one cream tea a month.

thepurplepixie

One cream tea a month would be nice. The place is really luxurious, I had a spa day as a birthday present a few years back and it would be lovely to go there regularly. I am hoping the offers are good. I don't mind about being banned in high season.

lessonlearned

Good luck. Hope you get a good deal.

I am aiming to restart the gym next week. They had a fire (nothing to do with me:rotfl:) and have just reopened after refurbishment.

Have booked a steroid injection for my knee so hope to be able to get "fighting fit" in time for Amazon Adventure next January. Fingers crossed. I am disgusting unfit at the moment. Fibro flare up this week so feeling pretty grim. Hey ho. I'm still alive and kicking. Just. :rotfl:

thepurplepixie

I'm feeling well but exhausted. Had DD and her partner, DS and 2 DGC her for the past ten days, the cooking, the shopping, the sheer noise and overcrowding is lovely but tiring and the state of my bank balance! I just don't know where teenage boys put all the food never mind young men 6ft plus in their 20s. I swear I haven't spent so much in Sainsburys in the last six months.

I will be lonely on Sunday when the last of them goes.

luvchocolate

This thread has gone way off track....would it not be better to let it die unless O.P comes back?

pollypenny

Does it matter?

Ilona

pollypenny wrote: »

Does it matter?

Personally I think it does. Most threads start off with a question, people respond with their answers. Anyone wanting to learn about the topic will click on it to read what is being said. New people will pick up the topic on search engines and think, oh, I'll have a look at that because it might answer my question as well. Then what they find is that half way through the thread it as changed into chitchat. No point in reading any further.

I often don't stick with a thread to the bitter end because is descends into pointless waffle. I only came back here because I posted on it, but I shall be quick to move on now because it's turned into a bit of a gossip over the garden wall type of thread, and I haven't got time, I have to go out.

Ilona

bugslet

Keep_pedalling wrote: »

Your husband is an HVG driver, I would hardly call that a menial job, and the average wage for that type of work is over £30k pa. Are you seriously saying that in all that time none of his earnings were saved or put into a pension scheme?

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Ooo I get to bring it back on topic. Missed all the other stuff, but just to say I agree with Keep pedalling. HGV drivers are not well paid for what they do often IMO, but with the long hours culture that is endemic, they can earn decent to good money. My artic drivers take home over 40k a year for European work. The two youngest do drive me nuts, they never save and are quite reckless with money. I have suggested they try and live as if they earned 30k a year and bank the rest, but.....they are grown men, it's up to them to decide how they dispose of their very hard-earned cash.

lessonlearned wrote: »

It is called "Your Money or Your Life" by Vicki Robin. She is American so a few of the pension and investing terms used are different but the principles are the same. The psychology behind is certainly still applicable not just for the UK, but also on a global scale, we do after all live in an era of global capitalism.



I cannot recommend this book highly enough. It's so good I even bought my own copy after I had first borrowed it from the library so I could let my kids read it. :rotfl:

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Enjoy.

I've read that one twice. Currently on loan to someone and only because she is very good at returning things!