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What have you had to do without because of the Recession?

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    #32
    babyfratelli_x
    Registered Users Posts: 209 ✭✭babyfratelli_x


    Not much really.... I was poor anyway, Im a student :rolleyes:
    So its actually fine durin the year, as rent/food etc has all come down.... Bt have been getting a lot less shifts at my summer job this year, which means less nites ou, less money for clothes shoppin and drinkin in the house more often than in the pub.

    This is all fine with me though, sick of headin out at home, and enjoy havin a few drinks in the house with my mates.... and ill be back to the same old skint times come September anyway :D


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    #33
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    5% of my salary. So far.

    Main thing thats missing is peace of mind. having a job means worrying about losing it.

    and now it looks like the economy is about to collapse again...


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    #34
    Pope Benedict
    Closed Accounts Posts: 35 ✭Pope Benedict


    Cheaper alter wine.


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    #35
    caseyann
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,941 ✭✭✭caseyann


    suitseir wrote: »
    In my case it is my two weeks holidays abroad! And, oh yea, I cannot afford to have the outside of the house painted....and it needs it.......painters still charging a fortune!

    Oh well.......could be worse!:(

    Answers for both,paint,do it yourself,Holiday,tent and car country;) probs solved :P

    I had nothing in first place so didnt have to give anything up:P


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    #36
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Most weeks............Wages...........:mad:


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    #37
    Ronan Raver77
    Registered Users Posts: 1,463 ✭✭✭Ronan Raver77


    no more evian baths i have a barrel hooked up to all the gutters on the house..


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    #38
    NoHornJan
    Registered Users Posts: 553 ✭✭✭NoHornJan


    Prisons, Hospitals, Schools, Decent Transport System, Sanity but most of all Disposable Income...


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    #39
    saywhatyousee
    Registered Users Posts: 1,511 ✭✭✭saywhatyousee


    NoHornJan wrote: »
    Prisons, Hospitals, Schools, Decent Transport System, Sanity but most of all Disposable Income...

    we had them before??


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    #40
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    I am really fortunate that I left Ireland when I did.

    New job (with pay raise)
    Part time job (with better pay than my full time in Ireland)
    New House with all of the toys.
    New Car (Ford Escape)

    I don't even want to think of where I would be right now if I had stayed in Ireland.


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    #41
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    I am really fortunate that I left Ireland when I did.

    New job (with pay raise)
    Part time job (with better pay than my full time in Ireland)
    New House with all of the toys.
    New Car (Ford Escape)

    I don't even want to think of where I would be right now if I had stayed in Ireland.

    Depressed no doubt.


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    #42
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    galwayrush wrote: »
    Depressed no doubt.

    Stoned to the bejaysuses to be honest ;)


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    #43
    galwayrush
    Registered Users Posts: 12,815 ✭✭✭✭galwayrush


    Rented Mule wrote: »
    Stoned to the bejaysuses to be honest ;)

    We can't afford to get stoned anymore.., it's back to drinking Bucky.:pac::pac:


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    #44
    InTheTrees
    Registered Users Posts: 9,900 ✭✭✭InTheTrees


    galwayrush wrote: »
    We can't afford to get stoned anymore.., it's back to drinking Bucky.:pac::pac:

    banana skins?

    :)


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    #45
    oldyouth
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,754 ✭✭✭oldyouth


    In date order;

    Annual Bonus
    VHI
    10% of my pay
    Bottle of Jameson always available in the cupboard
    50% of my colleagues
    Buying a treat for myself every payday
    A new barbeque,
    And finally, in 6 weeks time, my job


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    #46
    Scráib
    Registered Users Posts: 593 ✭✭✭Scráib


    Holidays,
    New clothes (And when I do get new ones I go to Pennys)
    Nights out on the razz (Gone from 4 a month to maybe 1 a month)


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    #47
    kiwilostineire
    Closed Accounts Posts: 26 ✭kiwilostineire


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    Wanna buy a parking spot for €45k?

    Only if my parents and bank try and talk me out of it :)


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    #48
    tommyhaas
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,100 ✭✭✭tommyhaas


    The people here whining about the little sacrifices they'v made should spare a thought for those less fortunate

    Poor P Diddy has had to leave his private jet parked up, and is being forced to slum it with American Airlines Business Class

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRZTCZPNNWU


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    #49
    donmeister
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,158 ✭✭✭donmeister


    Bridger Billions Freezer wrote: »
    Quilted toilet paper. Down to three ply :o

    *Holds hand to head and faints


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    #50
    suitseir
    Registered Users Posts: 887 ✭✭✭suitseir


    Einhard wrote: »
    Paint it yourself?

    I am doing inside like bedrooms and pondering on doing the kitchen. Outside? nope no can do.....two storey so too high and OH wouldn't climb a two step ladder! Last time, which is some time ago, it cost me 3,000 pounds!


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    #51
    Rented Mule
    Registered Users Posts: 5,153 ✭✭✭Rented Mule


    galwayrush wrote: »
    We can't afford to get stoned anymore.., it's back to drinking Bucky.:pac::pac:

    I grow my own ;)


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    #52
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    MrStuffins wrote: »
    I even froze my gym membership

    Does it last longer in the freezer?


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    #53
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    I have to do without meeting everyone i know out saturday nights (old friends, school mates, work people, neighbours, certain family members etc etc) as they can't afford it anymore. God I love this recession! :D


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    #54
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    Since the recession & the cut backs to free dental treatment, I have become more & more like a Fianna Fail politician by the day.

    Toothless!


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    #55
    RachPie
    Closed Accounts Posts: 244 ✭✭RachPie


    Erm...
    I've been very lucky, the only thing I've had to give up is going out every weekend.
    I'm a student. I'm used to living on beans and sleeping on couches.


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    #56
    jackiebaron
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,038 ✭✭✭jackiebaron


    Circumstances haven't really changed for me. I'm an IT contractor so could be scratching my arse for 6 months during boom times and gainfully employed during slumps. Curently I'm doing better than I was in 2006 and have been working constantly since then apart from a few months in the doldrums last year.
    Don't have expensive tastes anyway. I'm a jeans a tee-shirt guy. Have a heavy mortgage in Amsterdam but have always shopped on the markets and drink cheapo lager at home. Girlfriend likes a fancy nosh up once a month but that's about it.
    If I was to sell my apartment I'd be minted. Homeless but minted. don't have a car. No kids. Biggest expense after house private health (100 bills a month), then utilities about another 100 a month. Then beer.....the rest of my salary :D


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    #57
    rainbowdrop
    Registered Users Posts: 1,294 ✭✭✭rainbowdrop


    suitseir wrote: »
    I am doing inside like bedrooms and pondering on doing the kitchen. Outside? nope no can do.....two storey so too high and OH wouldn't climb a two step ladder! Last time, which is some time ago, it cost me 3,000 pounds!

    Whaat? 3 grand? Do you live in Buckingham Palace? I'm sure you'd be able to get some jobless fella to do it for a lot less than that!!

    Ps - I painted the outside of my house myself earlier this year, cos I couldn't afford to pay anyone (I'm female). If I can do it, surely one of ye could get your arse up a ladder too?


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    #58
    Strange Loop
    Closed Accounts Posts: 87 ✭✭Strange Loop


    What have you had to do without because of the Recession?

    The average of hot women.


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    #59
    starbelgrade
    Closed Accounts Posts: 20,739 ✭✭✭✭starbelgrade


    3 grand sounds like an awful lot to get a house painted alright. I paid a guy €300 to do my house a few weeks ago & that included the paint.

    He started in the morning & had it finished by the time the missus got back from work. I work from home, so splashed a bit of paint on ny hands & face and I told the missus that I'd done it myself.

    Got major brownie points for that, so I did.

    :D


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    #60
    storm2811
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,183 ✭✭✭storm2811


    Scráib wrote: »
    New clothes (And when I do get new ones I go to Pennys)

    Yeah I'd say Penny's sales have sky rocketed since the recession alright.


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    #61
    PrettyBoy
    Registered Users Posts: 4,213 ✭✭✭PrettyBoy


    OP you really should consider painting your house yourself. It would take 2-3 days max by yourself. I painted a one storey shop today - front and one of the sides. Started at 8.30am and finished at 4.30pm, job done. I'm no pro but it's only painting, anyone can do it.

    £3,000 is absolutely insane.


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