I dont give a flying cock how she spends her money. I do feel a bit of contempt for someone telling me how hard it is to live on good money though.Ronnie the Rep said:BoyBlue_1985 said:Ronnie the Rep said:What is your point?
Did you read it?
Yes most of it. Why do you care how she decides to spend her money - and what are you doing reading the mail anyway? You know it will upset you!
Swales lives said:BoyBlue_1985 said:She is hardly sacrificing anything though. I had to read it twice to realise what she actually has done is gone to a normal life with a child in private educationSwales lives said:Sounds like a good parent, sacrificing all the luxuries to help her kids along.
I don't see why she's batty.
Course she's sacrificing stuff. Her choice of supermarket shopping, her clothing brands, her holidays, her cosmetics, gifts for family, energy bills etc have all been compromised by her choice to send her lad to a private school.
It's almost certainly a complete load of old bollocks anyway - it's from The Mail.
BoyBlue_1985 said:I dont give a flying cock how she spends her money. I do feel a bit of contempt for someone telling me how hard it is to live on good money though.Ronnie the Rep said:BoyBlue_1985 said:Did you read it?
Yes most of it. Why do you care how she decides to spend her money - and what are you doing reading the mail anyway? You know it will upset you!
Normally skip through the sport pages, this article just caught my eye
malg said:WOW. This is stock in trade Daily Mail female columnist shite. Nothing to see really.
malg said:WOW. This is stock in trade Daily Mail female columnist shite. Nothing to see really.
Swales lives said:malg said:WOW. This is stock in trade Daily Mail female columnist shite. Nothing to see really.
Well it was heads or tails whether to run the "Posh woman shops at Lidl story" or "The obese Northern slag with 5 kids to 5 different partners on 75K a year benefits story".
The posh bird won.
What? No chickens? Seriously, she's doing the right thing by buying cheap, as long as the quality is still there, otherwise it is a false economy. And I don't understand this passion for manicured lawns with fragrant borders. My veg patch is more beautiful to me than any flowers or shrubs ever were.I’ve ditched expensive (delicious!) Waitrose food and started buying my groceries at Aldi. I’ve swapped designer frocks from Harvey Nichols for cheap High Street brands, and have even turned my beautiful flower garden into a home-grown vegetable patch — all so we can pay those school fees.
She obviously has standards for behaviour, and good for her. Absolutely nothing wrong with having values, and a good education (and as she says "children only get one shot at education") - in its broadest sense of equipping for life, is the greatest gift parents can give to their children, as we see in immigrant communities in the UK and in 'developing' countries.And while many people would suggest we just send Joe to the local comprehensive, children only get one shot at education — and I didn’t want to throw away my son’s.
We did look at the state alternatives, but they just didn’t seem up to it. They had a tangible ‘poverty of expectation’, to use a fashionable phrase, which was reflected in their mediocre exam results and the way the boys slouched around in scruffy uniforms. It just didn’t seem right to send our son there — no matter how much our circumstances may have changed since he enrolled.