Generation Skint

neverdespairgirl

ringo_24601 wrote: »

I can easily get through 600 quid in a 4 business day trip to Dublin and i'm hardly high up in the company. Our company certainly isn't stingy about expenses.

My Dad's in Hong Kong at the moment for work.

Some fool has shelled out the stiff side of £5k for him to fly 1st class - but it wasn't him (-:

MissMoneypenny

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

I had an absolutely perfect childhood, even though I have never <gasp> been to a Disney resort or on a package to the Med!

I took my children to Disney when they were young enough to believe that they really were meeting those characters, but we didn't stay in a Disney resort as we wanted to try other parks also. We booked a fly drive and chose where we wanted to stay when we arrived as it wasn't that safe in Florida then. A lot of my favourite rides have gone now due health and safety.

Apart from that it was holidays in the the UK, mainly Cornwall at my friends house, or they had days out at theme parks, especially Camelot, as it really was geared for young children when it first opened. I hate heights, so I am always the bag holder. School trips have been their main trips abroad, until uni , when they backpacked. They both would like to do some backpacking again.

When I was a child we had beach holidays, but I always ended spending the week with the horses on the beach and riding them back to their field at the end of the day. We often spent the summer holidays with my aunt and uncle in Herne Bay as my mother worked full time. Not expensive holidays, but we had a great time.

My only trips abroad as a child were school day trips to France on the ferry. I was on the first hovercraft crossing over the channel, as our school had built a hovercraft and the hovercraft company wanted to make a thing about the little hovercraft getting off the big hovercraft in France. On the way back, the crossing was so bad that some of the children and hovercraft staff, were airlifted off and taken to hospital as they were green with sea sickness. Stopping the hovercraft on a rough channel and watching the helecopter winch people up, was the most exciting part of the day.

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neverdespairgirl wrote: »

My Dad's in Hong Kong at the moment for work.

Some fool has shelled out the stiff side of £5k for him to fly 1st class - but it wasn't him (-:

Sadly, we're only allowed cattle-class on flights, but we do have a reasonable budget for hotels. I've now taken to booking through sites I've found on quidco to pocket some extra dosh. I usually find hotel prices cheaper than using the 'corporate booking agents'

My dad also goes to HK fairly frequently; he gets a nice bed/seat (think it's business, not first class). Oddly, when he travels to london, he stays in horrible cheap hotels

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

!!!!!!? wrote: »

An amazingly favourable confluence of economic factors which have been squandered

Hi !!!!!!

Have to disagree with you on this one. Even if the bubble is over, alot of permament things have been left behind. The Victoians left behind housing stock, bridges, schools, etc. Even the Romans left us plenty- roads, etc. Many good things have been done over the last 10 years. Whatever the market value of a property - those houses still exist and will do for a long time. There has been loads of new schools built (at last). Individually, people have replaced windows, roofs, had extensions, conservatories, etc and the things that have been made such as clothes and towels,etc etc will be around for along time. We've achieved alot of the last decade I think.

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

moggylover wrote: »

"lived in cardboard box we did! Yo wus lucky!" lol, must dig the LP out and have a listen to that with my kids! Hadn't thought about it for ages - funnily enough a guy on another thread was asking what to do with his parrot whilst showing potential buyers around the house earlier this evening - and I creased up with visions of the Python Parrot Sketch! Didn't make that suggestion though!

Yes "I used to get out of bed half an hour before I woke up":rotfl:

Phirefly

I only have to go back a couple of generations to find my bloodline battling for survival in the Bethnal Green slums. I hold onto this truth whenever times seem hard.

MissMoneypenny

Phirefly wrote: »

I only have to go back a couple of generations to find my bloodline battling for survival in the Bethnal Green slums. I hold onto this truth whenever times seem hard.

My great granddfather was a horse dealer in Peckham:D

borntobefree

Oh soooooooooo true Phirefly & Miss Moneypenny there is nothing like abit of familiy history to make you realise how lucky you are and how much our ancestors have done to get us here.:D Doing your family tree should be compulsory IMHO.

Miss Moneypenny my family were also London horse dealers in the 1800's and early 1900's (they then moved into cars), obviously this iwas the main mode of transport then - but did you know that a quarter of the crops grown at that time went to feed the horses, fascinating!

borntobefree

Phirefly wrote: »

I only have to go back a couple of generations to find my bloodline battling for survival in the Bethnal Green slums. I hold onto this truth whenever times seem hard.

On "Who do you think you are" Barbara Windsor found some of her family living in London workhouses. When they were traced back a number of generations, they found that this part of her tree were descendants of Constable (the painter) but the money had gone down another branch and this branch fell on hard times.

Phirefly

borntobefree wrote: »

On "Who do you think you are" Barbara Windsor found some of her family living in London workhouses. When they were traced back a number of generations, they found that this part of her tree were descendants of Constable (the painter) but the money had gone down another branch and this branch fell on hard times.

I love that programme. Particularly the Barbara Windsor show as my fore-phireflies were matchgirls and dockers too. No famous artists that I know of though... It certainly puts things in perspective...