The Recession Thread.

[chickenman]

Good,Feck em! that will teach them for not giving me back my bank charges :lol:

If the Banks are that hard up where are they getting the money to fund all these mergers?

[Pete]

I loaned them it from all the e mail lottery wins and Nigerian spare cash i keep getting

[AbitofMary_J]

well my view is people living above their means, credit cards freely given to all, them people spending them as if their cash and obvisouly can’t afford to pay them off… and folks buying houses which realisticly are stretching themselves too thinly… its all madness, folks having to have 2/3 cars per household, and as mentioned mobile phones each on contracts oh its £30 amth, thats £360 ayr..!!! I must be the only person on here who actually doesnt have a mobile now of us do in our house.

Plus we’re all seem to be so wasteful of things, like food, do you buy and then waste things..?? In our house I run the wkly budgets, whats for this and that, plus money away put by for a rainy day, or our Australian fund as we call it. We buy what we need only.. not because its on offer, I plan the meals awk ahead then make a list and thats all thats bought.. stopped buying cold meats, cheaper buying a joint of meat and slicing in batches and frozen, we go to the fruit market as alot cheaper than supermarkets etc… we buy natural yoghart and use pureed fruits in it, hell of a lot cheaper, and tastier than store products… abit like going back to how 2 generations did, they made do with what they had, and not be so wastefull of things or taking certain things for granted…

I hate to see our generation try and manage with Rations,

[Sir Actor]

@abitofmary_j wrote:

well my view is people living above their means, credit cards freely given to all, them people spending them as if their cash and obvisouly can’t afford to pay them off… and folks buying houses which realisticly are stretching themselves too thinly… its all madness, folks having to have 2/3 cars per household, and as mentioned mobile phones each on contracts oh its £30 amth, thats £360 ayr..!!! I must be the only person on here who actually doesnt have a mobile now of us do in our house.

Plus we’re all seem to be so wasteful of things, like food, do you buy and then waste things..?? In our house I run the wkly budgets, whats for this and that, plus money away put by for a rainy day, or our Australian fund as we call it. We buy what we need only.. not because its on offer, I plan the meals awk ahead then make a list and thats all thats bought.. stopped buying cold meats, cheaper buying a joint of meat and slicing in batches and frozen, we go to the fruit market as alot cheaper than supermarkets etc… we buy natural yoghart and use pureed fruits in it, hell of a lot cheaper, and tastier than store products… abit like going back to how 2 generations did, they made do with what they had, and not be so wastefull of things or taking certain things for granted…

I hate to see our generation try and manage with Rations,

Good post maryj,

I do love a woman who talks sense.

[fastcars]

@pete wrote:

by the end of today the Halifax/Bank of Scotland may be no more

Does that mean I wont have to pay off the rest of my mortgage… :D

[Pete]

Nah someones buying it :?

[Pete]

on the plus side no more bloody stupid adverts

[rednotdead]

well that disappoints me… seeing as my money sitting in their bank pays for howard and co singing and dancing along to well known songs murdering them with catchy lyrics such as ‘join the bloody halifax 35 quid an unpaid debit and another 28 for going over your overdraft’ :evil: :twisted: :evil: :twisted:

[rubyred]

@sir Actor wrote:

@abitofmary_j wrote:

well my view is people living above their means, credit cards freely given to all, them people spending them as if their cash and obvisouly can’t afford to pay them off… and folks buying houses which realisticly are stretching themselves too thinly… its all madness, folks having to have 2/3 cars per household, and as mentioned mobile phones each on contracts oh its £30 amth, thats £360 ayr..!!! I must be the only person on here who actually doesnt have a mobile now of us do in our house.

Plus we’re all seem to be so wasteful of things, like food, do you buy and then waste things..?? In our house I run the wkly budgets, whats for this and that, plus money away put by for a rainy day, or our Australian fund as we call it. We buy what we need only.. not because its on offer, I plan the meals awk ahead then make a list and thats all thats bought.. stopped buying cold meats, cheaper buying a joint of meat and slicing in batches and frozen, we go to the fruit market as alot cheaper than supermarkets etc… we buy natural yoghart and use pureed fruits in it, hell of a lot cheaper, and tastier than store products… abit like going back to how 2 generations did, they made do with what they had, and not be so wastefull of things or taking certain things for granted…

I hate to see our generation try and manage with Rations,

Good post maryj,

I do love a woman who talks sense.

while not admitting i have been into “thrift” I find, the skinter i am, the better i cook. In a mad world of Free debt and being offered things on a plate regards loans etc. it HAD to end ! and I for one NEVER took advantage of this free world. I joked elesewhere about putting in for every loan that was e-mailed,cold called and offered and the fact they said ” yes” ! scared me.
Debt is the new word for borrowing, and seems to be allowed, from the people who cant pay mortgages to the folks avoiding the provie man.

from ONE free range chicken i can get the Breast meat for eating, the not so good meat for making into coronation chicken. the under carriage for curries and the carcass for soups .

i think its an age thing mary.. while i never grew up in the ” war” im young enough to remember the stories of how a pound o mince went far. and the cookery books of OUR era. taught us NOT to discard food. I think the problem lies in the education of basic cookery. its not a subject thats taken nowadays. I can make tattie broth,doughboys,cheesy bread and pancakes from a pund o flour :)

bring back marguerite patten :) and god old fashioned home ec. !

[rednotdead]

I’m loathe to admit it but I agree with rubyred… all my daughter learns to cook at school is bloody pizza’s summer fruitss and pasties… amazingly the summer fruit pudding was cooked last winter when the price of fruit had doubled and the whole concoction cost me over 8 quid :roll: :twisted: :evil:

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