Do you know anyone that still spends they’re living in the boom?

lilymc

I know a couple that got married New Year’s Day this year, 300 at the wedding, 5 star hotel. Previous to that they both went away abroad for weekends for their hens/stag, had a bridal shower, rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding and an after party of 150 the day after. THEN they went on a month long honeymoon including New York, Vegas and Caribbean Cruise. Came back and had another ‘Coming home party’.

Now that would be all well and good if they could afford all this, I’d be saying fair play, I’d love to afford that myself. But they don’t. The wife works in a hotel spa and yer man is an unemployed currently helping build them a house on the father’s land.

Now the horrible part, they have been refused a mortgage and can’t even get a credit union loan to finish the house. I wish I could have sympathy for them but spending all that money on a wedding with no money to pay for the house is beyond me. Especially when there is only one not very high income coming in. I mean they even have a brand new car each. Why do people do this to themselves??

Vinz Mesrine

How did they afford all of it if they don't have the money to finish their house or get a mortgage? Someone telling porkies?

maryishere

Maybe they won the lotto? Or her father is a public servant with a golden pension?

zenno

You reap what you sow. No pity from here.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I'm still spending as much as I did during the boom. Does that make me a bad person?

Mr. Incognito

Maybe the wedding paid for itself?

300 is an awful lot of presents.

Anyway, what's it to you? Who cares how other people live.

Begrudgery much?

lilymc

Vinz Mesrine wrote: »

How did they afford all of it if they don't have the money to finish their house or get a mortgage? Someone telling porkies?

I guessing like with most builds they estimated how much it would cost and it went over. So they thought we can spend x amount on the wedding because we have enough left for the house.

Then 'if we do' go over we'll hit up the credit union for €30,000.
They're in shock they've been turned down, I'm good friends with her cousin, I mean they're so shocked they think something is wrong with the system and not there financial status.

Vinz Mesrine

lilymc wrote: »

I guessing like with most builds they estimated how much it would cost and it went over. So they thought we can spend x amount on the wedding because we have enough left for the house.

Then 'if we do' go over we'll hit up the credit union for €30,000.
They're in shock they've been turned down, I'm good friends with her cousin, I mean they're so shocked they think something is wrong with the system and not there financial status.

So you're guessing?

bnt

Kylee Whispering Lockout wrote: »

I'm still spending as much as I did during the boom. Does that make me a bad person?

That's up to you - no-one else can tell you you're "bad", or you can ignore them if they try. If you're like me, you weren't spending much during the boom years, either ..!

mr_edge_to_you

There's a lad down the road partying like its 1999.

Mad for the Venga Boys......"woahh ohhh ohhh.....back to the island"

The Backwards Man

There's still the same amount of money around as there always was, it's just distributed differently.

Arthur Beesley

I have a mate who wouldn't spend Christmas. Tight as a gnat's chuff piece.

Always was, hasn't changed since the recession.

zenno

they have been refused a mortgage and can’t even get a credit union loan to finish the house

Well I wonder why they spent all that cash on a short excitement spree, just to come home to being broke. Makes no sense. An un-idiot would have used the cash for the home, to make things easier, money-wise.

It's their business what they do/did, but eating all the fish in the sea in one go, just to fish the next day with no fish in the sea is nonsensical imo.

Duckworth_Luas

I ate in Eddie Rockets yesterday. Pure madness on my part, was like the boom all over again!

Fox_In_Socks

I'm spending more than in the boom. But that's because I was studying as a poor student and had a low paying job straight after. It's only since the recession that I'm solvent

Stavros Murphy

I hear that Denis OBrien hasn't eased up even a bit. Blinging the cash left right and center. I believe he went into macaris yesterday and ordered a Battered sausage, chips AND a burger. The mad fecker.

Arthur Beesley

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

I hear that Denis OBrien hasn't eased up even a bit. Blinging the cash left right and center. I believe he went into macaris yesterday and ordered a Battered sausage, chips AND a burger. The mad fecker.

Fat bastard. No spice burgers though?

KwackerJack

Keeping up with the Jone's......that's all it is!!

Cantremember

Cash economy. The "developers" aka as electricians plumbers carpenters are making tax free cash instead of building ****e estates. That is all

scwazrh

Cantremember wrote: »

Cash economy. The "developers" aka as electricians plumbers carpenters are making tax free cash instead of building ****e estates. That is all

What a load of shi*e!

So the developers are all tradesmen now?

downonthefarm

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

Maybe the wedding paid for itself?

300 is an awful lot of presents.

Anyway, what's it to you? Who cares how other people live.

Begrudgery much?

Do people still give presents?

Legs.Eleven

lilymc wrote: »

I know a couple that got married New Year’s Day this year, 300 at the wedding, 5 star hotel. Previous to that they both went away abroad for weekends for their hens/stag, had a bridal shower, rehearsal dinner the night before the wedding and an after party of 150 the day after. THEN they went on a month long honeymoon including New York, Vegas and Caribbean Cruise. Came back and had another ‘Coming home party’.

Now that would be all well and good if they could afford all this, I’d be saying fair play, I’d love to afford that myself. But they don’t. The wife works in a hotel spa and yer man is an unemployed currently helping build them a house on the father’s land.

Now the horrible part, they have been refused a mortgage and can’t even get a credit union loan to finish the house. I wish I could have sympathy for them but spending all that money on a wedding with no money to pay for the house is beyond me. Especially when there is only one not very high income coming in. I mean they even have a brand new car each. Why do people do this to themselves??

Strange you even care.

BetterThanThou

My brother goes out every single Friday and Saturday, refuses to buy any cheap clothes, his wardrobe is full of brands like Hugo Boss and Abercrombie, and he pretty much insists on replacing it every 6 months or so, including things like jeans which last years. Worst part is, he definitely can't afford it, he's on the dole, and considers his dole money that he can play around with, he relies on my parents to feed him, doesn't pay any rent, considers it an injustice if there's no food in the house that he likes and he has to spend his dole on food. Even worse, he done some security course with FAS and thinks once his license comes through he's going to be working on the door of night clubs making a boat load of money, but doesn't understand there's far more supply than demand for security and has ignored my suggestions to join the gym and bulk up if he wants to make it.
Although, that said, I'm guilty of some things like that too. I pretty much refuse to spend any less than €60 on a large bag of dog food for my dog, who's a large breed, so it ends up being costly, and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music.(with the exception of Johnny Cash)

Stavros Murphy

BetterThanThou wrote: »

My brother goes out every single Friday and Saturday, refuses to buy any cheap clothes, his wardrobe is full of brands like Hugo Boss and Abercrombie, and he pretty much insists on replacing it every 6 months or so, including things like jeans which last years. Worst part is, he definitely can't afford it, he's on the dole, and considers his dole money that he can play around with, he relies on my parents to feed him, doesn't pay any rent, considers it an injustice if there's no food in the house that he likes and he has to spend his dole on money. Even worse, he done some security course with FAS and thinks once his license comes through he's going to be working on the door of night clubs making a boat load of money, but doesn't understand there's far more supply than demand for security and has ignored my suggestions to join the gym and bulk up if he wants to make it.

sounds like he has it sussed.

Menas

If you have the money then spend what you want. I earn more than in 2008 so I spend and save more.
Title should be 'know anyone still borrowing like during the boom'.

KwackerJack

BetterThanThou wrote: »

My brother goes out every single Friday and Saturday, refuses to buy any cheap clothes, his wardrobe is full of brands like Hugo Boss and Abercrombie, and he pretty much insists on replacing it every 6 months or so, including things like jeans which last years. Worst part is, he definitely can't afford it, he's on the dole, and considers his dole money that he can play around with, he relies on my parents to feed him, doesn't pay any rent, considers it an injustice if there's no food in the house that he likes and he has to spend his dole on food. Even worse, he done some security course with FAS and thinks once his license comes through he's going to be working on the door of night clubs making a boat load of money, but doesn't understand there's far more supply than demand for security and has ignored my suggestions to join the gym and bulk up if he wants to make it.
Although, that said, I'm guilty of some things like that too. I pretty much refuse to spend any less than €60 on a large bag of dog food for my dog, who's a large breed, so it ends up being costly, and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music.(with the exception of Johnny Cash)

We all have dreams....unless he can get into Close Protection / armed contract work over sea's he will make feck all money in security, especially here!

He will need all the courses (not the ****y cheap ones) and a shed load of contacts that will vouch for him and like all new lads in the field that wont happen for many years.

BetterThanThou

KwackerJack wrote: »

We all have dreams....unless he can get into Close Protection / armed contract work over sea's he will make feck all money in security, especially here!

He will need all the courses (not the ****y cheap ones) and a shed load of contacts that will vouch for him and like all new lads in the field that wont happen for many years.

The thing is, being security isn't a dream of his, he just thinks it's a way he'll make easy money, despite being puny and untrained in any form of combat. (According to him, the course he did didn't even include any combat training)

KwackerJack

BetterThanThou wrote: »

The thing is, being security isn't a dream of his, he just thinks it's a way he'll make easy money, despite being puny and untrained in any form of combat. (According to him, the course he did didn't even include any combat training)

No easy money in security, Aldi and Mc Donald's would be safer, less annoying and better pay and promotion

In Ireland you don't need 'combat training' really.

1 there's no need as door men usually need to show restraint for themselves and the owners

2 the laws on the drunks side as any little thing will have you in court. hence number 1

Legs.Eleven

Legs.Eleven wrote: »

Strange you even care.

It's odd to put that much thought into the spending habits of someone your cousin is friends with.

That said, someone once asked me for my thoughts on how her next door neighbour could afford a new car.

The magnitude with which I do not give a sh!t is indescribable.

Fox_In_Socks

Candie wrote: »

It's odd to put that much thought into the spending habits of someone your cousin is friends with.

That said, someone once asked me for my thoughts on how her next door neighbour could afford a new car.

The magnitude with which I do not give a sh!t is indescribable.

So how did she afford it in the end?

Fox_In_Socks

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

So how did she afford it in the end?

Probably those copious child benefits, bountiful perks, and that lavish single parent allowance.

Fox_In_Socks

Candie wrote: »

Probably those copious child benefits, bountiful perks, and that lavish single parent allowance.

Makes my blood boil!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

Fox_In_Socks

Fox_In_Socks wrote: »

Makes my blood boil!!!!:mad::mad::mad::mad:

No recession in those houses

Micky Dolenz

Which Boom?

A lot of people moved on to the next boom and have pretty good lives.

Follow the money.

delw

Didn't have it to spend in the boom & don't have it now either so yeah spending the same

Lenin Skynard

Candie wrote: »

Probably those copious child benefits, bountiful perks, and that lavish single parent allowance.

Dripping with money those people. I've never such elaborate wealth as a single mother on benefits. Three hundred euros a week Joe, sure the president of America doesn't make half that. .

Lenin Skynard

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

Dripping with money those people. I've never such elaborate wealth as a single mother on benefits. Three hundred euros a week Joe, sure the president of America doesn't make half that. .

And every single penny that doesn't go on new cars and foreign holidays goes on DRINK Joe! The childer are starving! Shoeless! Starkers!

Hussies!

There's unemployed people beside me who keep themselves in MINK COATS with nixers!

Lenin Skynard

They spent that €100 communiformation grant on a brand new Audi and the most expensive sky telly package Joe.

We really need to hand over the department of finance to the mythical Irish single mother who can live the lifestyle of Paris Hilton on a fifty euro note. We'll be flying it.

kingshankly

Spending the same as I always have both of us in government jobs never seen the amazing times but then again never seen the bad
Nothing changed for me except you now get a bit more bang for your buck

BetterThanThou

Lenin Skynard wrote: »

They spent that €100 communiformation grant on a brand new Audi and the most expensive sky telly package Joe.

We really need to hand over the department of finance to the mythical Irish single mother who can live the lifestyle of Paris Hilton on a fifty euro note. We'll be flying it.

Not all mothers on the welfare are bad, but some of them definitely are. My aunt had 5 kids, so she was likely getting a decent amount of money from the welfare. I'm telling you, this woman would spend the absolute least on her kids possible. She fed them dinner and breakfast, hungry outside of those times? Too bad. Want a second bowl of coco pops? Too bad. Their dinner multiple times a week was the absolute cheapest Tesco brand pizza that she could buy, usually served with the cheapest frozen chips she could buy. While some people could argue this is what they have to do to make ends meet, this definitely wasn't. She always had the best things, smoked 20 a day, everything on Sky except the sports, which she didn't want. When giant TVs became main stream, she bought herself a 50 inch TV. Remodels her home every year or so. And at the same time, to show how much money she has for herself. She has the most expensive bill phone plan, just so she could get a "free" smart phone. While I'm not saying every mother who's on the welfare is exploiting them, there are some like this sick woman that do.

Manach

Eamon Gilmore.

Lenin Skynard

BetterThanThou wrote: »

Not all mothers on the welfare are bad, but some of them definitely are. My aunt...

Not all members of your family are bad, but some of them definitely are. Your aunt...

TheShizz

There's no recession for me. I work from home, for an English website and I pay my taxes to the queen.

God save her.

johnnyskeleton

Kylee Whispering Lockout wrote: »

I'm still spending as much as I did during the boom. Does that make me a bad person?

As long as you wring your hands and scream "won't somebody think of the children" as you drink your moet from your hookers Waterford crystal goblet, then you're fine!

thegreatgonzo

BetterThanThou wrote: »

and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music. QUOTE]

Was it just for the craic of trying to get tickets online or for the craic of seeing a singer you don't like after paying a s***load of money?
Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.

zenno

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

Which Boom?

A lot of people moved on to the next boom and have pretty good lives.

Follow the money.

Everyone is saying follow the money, but if I do follow the money, I bump into a securicor van or a bank. Then after I have followed the money to these places I am locked out, I can't get to the fecking money. So what is the point in following the money ?.

Captain Chaos

I paying more in tax and spending less due to being taxed more for a pension that I may well not live to claim as the working age will probably be 80 when it's time for me to retire.

BetterThanThou

thegreatgonzo wrote: »

BetterThanThou wrote: »

and I was online trying to get Garth Brooks tickets just for the craic, despite not liking Garth Brooks or country music. QUOTE]

Was it just for the craic of trying to get tickets online or for the craic of seeing a singer you don't like after paying a s***load of money?
Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.

No one playing a concert during the summer interests me, but I wanted to go to one, so I figured I'd try see Garth Brooks.

ZzubZzub

[QUOTE=thegreatgonzo;89029459
Personally I watch R Kelly's Trapped in the Closet videos on Youtube when I want a good laugh. Doesn't cost me a cent.[/QUOTE]

So off topic, but that's one of the greatest pieces of art ever.

OT, I have relatives who I am sure are ****ting money. 2 years and 4 months after building their "dream" 7 bedroom house (6 kids) they moved to Oz cause uncles wage dropped €1000 per annum.

sawdoubters

I laugh at poor people

Jamie2k9

OP during the boom not everybody was going out blowing money every 5 minutes to keep up with the neighbours buying property like there was no tomorrow when the intelligent people could see a pin coming to burst the bubble. If people used there heads instead of the hands at the ATM half the people wouldn't be poor now. I guess money talks for most of the population over brains.

One thing I will agree with is that wedding was way ott and while I could do the same I wouldn't in a million years.

I'm probably speeding more now than ever as I can afford it now but as already said being taxed a lot more to.

I laugh at poor people

Nobody likes an p****