Prepping for Brexit thread

MrsL

There are always people happy to tell us we are doing something wrong, whether it is saving and buying things for cash rather than on credit, paying bills promptly rather than wait for repeated requests, study in our own time etc.

DH lost count of the times he was told by friends he had grown up with how silly he was to go to evening classes, to take an apprenticeship, go to university, teacher training and work away from his home town. Years later when he was settled in a good job, company car etc the same people told him how "lucky" he was as if his hard work was somehow "cheating" and unfair to them personally.

Does anyone have any recommendations for good organic tinned Italian tomatoes?

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MrsL

There are always people happy to tell us we are doing something wrong, whether it is saving and buying things for cash rather than on credit, paying bills promptly rather than wait for repeated requests, study in our own time etc.

DH lost count of the times he was told by friends he had grown up with how silly he was to go to evening classes, to take an apprenticeship, go to university, teacher training and work away from his home town. Years later when he was settled in a good job, company car etc the same people told him how "lucky" he was as if his hard work was somehow "cheating" and unfair to them personally.

There will always be people who want to have their cake and eat it. We,ve always been a very prudent couple, (modest holidays mostly in this country, living within our means, no expensive cars replaced regularly, always saved a proportion of our income).

I can't understand why people say "you're lucky to have paid off your mortgage so early" as if we'd won the pools or something". I just say "well you,ve got memories of some lovely holidays" and you see their eyes cloud over with wistfulness when they're approaching retirement, still haven,t paid off the mortgage, or can,t afford to retire because of other debts.

They could have made the same choices but didn't. You can't have your cake and eat it and the sensible people are those who decide what sort of cake it is they want early on and are single minded about achieving their goals. It's not easy to make sacrifices when you're young, aspirational and everybody else is spending their money and having a good time . But it's a darned sight harder when you're old, perhaps in poor health still trying to pay off the mortgage, can,t afford to retire or put on the heating when it' s cold and frosty.

Nobody knows what misfortunes are going to hit them later in life but it makes sense to arm yourself for the ones you can at least partially protect yourself against.

I buy the cheap Sainsbury's own label tomatoes and they are fine.