What is your MSE bug bear?

savvykaz

Tallyho - my DH is exactly the same re. the kettle that I try to beat him to filling it . If he fills it, I sit in the room listening to it taking about 20 minutes to boil!!:D

DH also puts the heating on constant on a weekend when I'm at work and when I get home the water is absolutely RED hot.

Lights being left on are another in our household too.

Why are men so lacksadaisical?

savingholmes

EagerLearner wrote: »

Buying top brands is also a big one - although I do admit that some things I can't go without. Baked Beans and real Ketchup are 2 of them. But toilet roll, tinned tomatoes, peas, sweetcorn? No way and saves so much more buying non-branded and 'downsizing'.

I'm still guilty of this one... getting better but it is difficult to break habits of a lifetime. Beans and toilet paper - I think should be branded only personally but the rest of the family seem to be getting on okay with supermarket's own brand. I'm still buying my fave brand for me tho:o Some of the shops own spag bol gets wasted (my DD won't eat my home cooked one) - she prefers branded....at 5!

bathgatebuyer

Horace wrote: »

My bugbear is people who think that those who are on benefits are cheats - some of them maybe cheats and if you know of a cheat then you should dob them in. Not all benefit claimants are cheats.

Absolutely - benefits are there for a reason, not to supplement someone who lies to the social just to get themselves spending money for a few nice holidays every year. The worst thing is when they tell you and expect you to pat them on the back and say, "Jeeeez, you're so clever swindling the taxpayer and committing fraud so you can swan off to Italy (again) while the rest of us live off beans on toast and jam sandwiches............................"

One phone call ended that.

MrsE_2

moggylover wrote: »

For me it is food snobs,
I am a food snob in relation to whats actually in it & how it was raised/produced
car snobs
Thats a man thing:rolleyes:
and "designer lablel" snobs!
I'm not a designer lable snob, but I do have a weakness for Mulberry bags:o
But I do try and tell myself not to be cross, they cannot help it if they are dumb enough to be taken in by the ad-men!
I am a sucker for ads & packaging:o :eek:

Biggest non-comprende for me is those that will pay out £100 for a pair of plastic shoes/trainers, made in a third World country for peanuts and shipped here to mug them with!

Also "designer" specs! For GS - they are specs - and for the price of some of them they could get lazer surgery !
I'm a 4eyed-git (but I wear contacts), I do have glasses for emergencies (tired eyes ect) but if I had to wear them 24/7 I would want REALLY snazzy specs. My DD wants the Tiffany ones for xmas (about £300) I feel so sorry for her wearing glasses if it takes them to make her happy then so be it.

Have hated it since my eldest son went up to Senior school - and keeps looking longingly at football boots made of crappy "man-made materials" that cost £100+, cos his so-called mates have them, and whilst I'm not going to give in I do know that he gets teased/bullied about anything that does not have the "right" labels!!
Try & cut him some slack here, theres loads of pressures on teenagers nowadays, this is just another pressure.
God, what a horrible World it has become when one is judged according to a fancy name on your shoes or bag at the age of 12!

Yes it is a materialistic world:eek: :eek: :eek:

jpwhittle

bathgatebuyer wrote: »

Absolutely - benefits are there for a reason, not to supplement someone who lies to the social just to get themselves spending money for a few nice holidays every year. The worst thing is when they tell you and expect you to pat them on the back and say, "Jeeeez, you're so clever swindling the taxpayer and committing fraud so you can swan off to Italy (again) while the rest of us live off beans on toast and jam sandwiches............................"

One phone call ended that.

who needs to lie these days anyway? i agree with the origanal bugbear. my brother claims more than my husband earns in benefits every year and doesnt have to lie to get any of it. hesvery hapy with his why should i work when i can get all this and be better of mentality.:mad: and he happily tells you that he can have 5 kids and retire of the amount they will get.
this anoys the hell out of me when i then see mynephew with holes in his shoes cos they then tell me they have no money and are skint. funny theyhave enought o smoke and drink with isnt it:mad:
and all in the meantime my husband is in the RAF working hard to pay taxes to fund him. and he gets nothing for the job he does not even a thankyou. stupid effing government and they wonder why this contries a mess.

Ossireo

My bugbear - people who brand and label the masses from their person experiences of a few.

People (many on here actually as well!) who assume that because I am a single mum on Income Support that I am a lying slack person who is begging off the taxpayers and rolling in a ton of money while they all work etc etc

When in fact I have worked and paid tax etc since I was 16 (am now 35), 15 years of my working life was for the Government and 5 in Corporate Banking. I was very ill last year and accepted Voluntary Redundancy when it was offered to me as I was bordering on a mental breakdown.

Whilst I agree there are a minority who do defraud the government by claiming benefits they are not entitled to, there are also people out there in genuine strife in a period in their life and are using benefits when they actually need them to get by. I am not swanning off on holiday, buying fancy stuff with all this money I allegedly have rolling in now! I actually never claimed any DLA as I never felt I was as bad as many others were, I just wanted to claim the basic for me & my DS and tide over while I look for work.

For the first time in my life I have not been able to pay my creditors and have had to go on a DMP and it makes me very upset that I have had to do that as I have ALWAYS paid my way. Yet still I get lumped in the benefit scroungers, stealing taxpayers money pile :mad:

See, got me on my soapbox and I gto all passionate again, probably should go lay down in a darkened room for a bit I guess

new2civvystreet

Not enough interest in my stuff on ebay. I have 5 things selling and 2 of them don't have any watchers

Just because I don't want my rubbish, doesn't mean I don't want someone else to want it :

moo2moo

I know exactly what you mean about the non-supportive OH. I do get called a penny-pincher by him, mostly in a good natured way. He does come and report that the wine rack is empty and asks when Mr T will be delivering the next lot of freebies so at least he appreciates what I do and hes quick enough to tell his collegues at work that not only does he have RAC cover but its free too. He also comes in search of the 5p a litre off petrol vouchers when he fills up at £90 a tank but the idea of a 10p coupon in store for something he hasn't bought ooooh nooooo couldn't possibly consider that and all those lovely News of the Worlds with the £5 off at Mr Ts vouchers from work that were thrown in the bin... he couldn't even begin to work out why I was cross he didn't bring them home. He brought a stack of Daily Mails back instead on the same day for using to light the fire.

Mind you I did persuade him to list his car on E-bay this weekend saving a whole £4 with the half price offer. Its already exceeded what he was offered as part ex.

tealady

I don't have a problem with people spending their money on whatever they want, after all they worked for it. What REALLY does annoy me is people winging about not being able to afford whatever when they clearly can, it just means sacrificing something else.
I appreciate for people on benefits life could be a struggle, and I do have sympathy for those who are struggling to pay off debts, after all we all make mistakes, I know I have made thousands.

Ossireo

Well I am sorry I got on my soapbox there about benefits Trying to find a job once you have the stigma of previous depression (even though it was due to something medical and has now gone) is nearly impossible. Then when you apply for the lower paid jobs people want to know why you are downgrading and assume you will be off once a better paid/skilled job comes up :rotfl:

Agree with the above bugbear about people whining about not being able to afford stuff/skint .. when they can somehow magic up the money to do things short notice or buy something extravagant

Oh and not really a MSE bugbear but one the same .. people that let their dogs carp over the pavement right next to the school, its like an obstacle course walking to the gate most days from the amount it has been stepped in and walked everywhere! :mad: