Old style as an escape from the world?

Cheapskate

Mar, we sometimes have days or even weeks like that - even when I was younger I hated so much rushing around day in and day out. I love the school hols cos we can please ourselves how much - if any - rushing around we do!

A xo

Sea_Shell

Hi guys. Biting my 'virtual' tongue here... My sister's been all over Facebook pleading poverty... still got their full sky package mind!!! Oh how I want to respond!!!

Sea_Shell

mardatha wrote: »

Cheapskate you're very wise. Life is hectic enough without us letting it control us. My very modern trendy DIL once said she wished she could have the kind of life I did, and I told her "just stay at home! Don't go places!" and she looked at me as if I was mad. She's one who is in and out the house every hour, collecting this/buying that/taking kids here/collecting kids there. She never sits down and it would drive me mad living like that.

Quite. Going places is overrated! Home is sanctuary.

Nargleblast

Sea_Shell wrote: »

Hi guys. Biting my 'virtual' tongue here... My sister's been all over Facebook pleading poverty... still got their full sky package mind!!! Oh how I want to respond!!!

Why on Earth, if things are that bad at home, would you want to go on FB and tell every man and his dog about it?

Go on, I dare you respond.....you could point her in the direction of the MSE Debt Free Wannabe thread and tell her to do a SOA (statement of affairs) and post it so people can advise her where to cut costs.

Sea_Shell

Oh they love to play the "poor little me" card. It's working mind, the amount they get from Bank of mum and dad !!!

monnagran

Sea Shell, its a question of priorities isn't it? That and human nature.
Some people have their own and their family's health and well being as their priority. They will budget, cook healthy meals, keep their eye on the outgoings and only treat themselves to the occasional luxury if they can afford it. They will have a good life, happy families (on the whole) and can sleep at night.
Other people will call them 'lucky'.

Those who make luxury and trendiness their priority will spend recklessly in trying to outdo the Joneses. They will slavishly follow fashion and feel it essential to have all the latest gadgets and gizmos. They have no idea where their money is going and will have a nasty shock when their card is declined or the debt collector comes acalling. Then there will be wailing and gnashing of teeth and we will all be expected to sympathise with the poor victim.

It's an old, old story.

GreyQueen

I bite my tongue so often it's a blinking miracle I haven't bitten through it by now........... :rotfl:




Lessee, there was the mother who lamented the expense of i-phones for all three children (all under EIGHT btw).


Someone else out of work who was spending one quarter of their total benefits (and lamenting they couldn't pay their utility bills) on their telly package and reacted to the suggestion that mebbe they might want to rethink that as if the suggestor was suggesting they sell their firstborn into slavery.


Someone else lamenting hard times but spending £100 + per term on their 3 year old's ballet classes.

Mrs_Salad_Dodger

GreyQueen wrote: »

I bite my tongue so often it's a blinking miracle I haven't bitten through it by now........... :rotfl:




Lessee, there was the mother who lamented the expense of i-phones for all three children (all under EIGHT btw).



Someone else out of work who was spending one quarter of their total benefits (and lamenting they couldn't pay their utility bills) on their telly package and reacted to the suggestion that mebbe they might want to rethink that as if the suggestor was suggesting they sell their firstborn into slavery.


Someone else lamenting hard times but spending £100 + per term on their 3 year old's ballet classes.

GreyQueen, I absolutely adored this post :T:j:T
What always gives me pause for thought is whether or not I am guilty of this attitude at any point? Then I think - no I am actually quite sane :rotfl: in the scheme of things. My problem is that I just do not understand the sense of entitlement that some people have ‘You pays your money and you makes your choices’. Of course, everyone is entitled to their choices but they should just accept the results of said choices & not whinge & complain that they are hard done by. There are plenty of people in the world who have to make hard choices & in my experience you never hear/see/read about them complaining. They quietly & stoically get on with their lives.
The moaners/complainers cannot seem to understand that change comes from themselves - there are plenty of things you cannot control but how you spend your money isn’t one of them.

Sorry for the essay, but much as I can ‘laugh’ at people’s foibles it also makes me despair Good job there are so many people on the MSE OS threads who have common sense, experience & can offer advice/virtual comfort/sympathy

I’m off :rotfl:

MrsSD

Sea_Shell

Mrs_Salad_Dodger wrote: »

Of course, everyone is entitled to their choices but they should just accept the results of said choices & not whinge & complain that they are hard done by.

Exactly my thoughts too!!!!

A_Simple_Home

I definitely use my OS ways as an escape from the modern world. It has been tough lately, my father is terminally ill and so I have tended to slip into bad habits as my brain can't cope well at the moment. Meal planning, cooking, cleaning and planning have gone out of the window at the mo. But the chaos is only adding to my misery. So I need to get back on track.