Is being poor expensive?

AlmightyCushion · 14-11-2008 04:20AM

brendansmith wrote: »

Dont forget the guy who polishes your rocket!:pac::pac:

Hey, that was one time and I was very drunk. He said he was just a massage, he said it was just a massage.

*cries*

brendansmith · 14-11-2008 04:31AM

*throws head back and laughs a hearty laugh, each powerful laugh cause the earth to shake and sea to boil*

Crumble Froo · 14-11-2008 04:37AM

feck it. points taken.

agree that being poor can be expensive, but people with money will tend to waste/throw away more.

*shrugs*

Xavi6 · 14-11-2008 04:41AM

Tbh I'd rather have an appreciation for money than be throwing it away like some of the **** you see.

brendansmith · 14-11-2008 04:41AM

Crumble Froo wrote: »

well, tbh, i wouldnt mind having a couple quid more. enough to be able to buy the good food in the supermarket without having to worry if ill still be able to pay the rent. we do still have a car, so pay taxes, petrol, insurance, registration, warrant on that, as well as rates on the house, insurance on the house, rent, electricity, phone, internet.

granted, they're not all 'necessary', (it took me a looooooooong time to warm up to the idea of the car, and we use it minimally), but both mine nad my partner's best mates live overseas, so the internet and phone are very important to us. car is handy for my fella to see his family, and help them out, as well as for me to get to surfing every week.

at this point, i've had a bad cough since getting back from ireland, and packing and clearing a lot of the stuff out of this house has kicked up extra dust, and exposed a tonne of mould, and i have literally spent a couple of hours straight just coughing in the last 24hrs. not sure what it's from, but i am genuinely starting to worry about it now. but doctor's a bit expensive, particularly as a non-resident with no travel insurance. so im riding it out, and hope that works out for me.

ah, im not *that* poor, but money is a constant worry, even more so for my partner, who has a smaller income than me, and a child who seems to just guzzle the little income he does have.

buuuuuuuut anyway, moving in two weeks, should have a fair few quid more than usual floating around once we're there, fingers crossed

Make this into 5 sentences or im not going to bother reading it.

AlmightyCushion · 14-11-2008 04:48AM

brendansmith wrote: »

Make this into 5 sentences or im not going to bother reading it.

Just take the first sentence of each paragraph. Problem solved.

14-11-2008 06:42AM

When you're a starving student, everything appears expensive!

brendansmith · 14-11-2008 06:52AM

Blue_Lagoon wrote: »

When you're a starving student, everything appears expensive!

Not true!

14-11-2008 06:57AM

brendansmith wrote: »

Not true!

DATABASE ERROR!

brianthebard · 14-11-2008 10:53AM

Crumble Froo wrote: »

the first thing that struck my mind though, was health. cos healthcare/medicine etc isnt cheap, and so often, the less healthy things are cheaper. i try to eat a lot of fresh fruit as part of my diet, but it is getting more and more expensive, and the weeks i can't afford it, i tend to just live on bread/toast/pasta, cos it's just so dirt cheap. not to mention the fact that for 2l of milk (here, in nz), it costs about $3-5, while a decent sized scoop of chips from the fish'n'chip shop averages about $1.70-2.30. less healthy, but infinitely more filling. little things like this, build up to much bigger health issues.

That's very true, I was living on weetabix and pasta bakes for the past two-three weeks, and while its not technically bad or value free food, I was definitely getting run down. Ended up going home and eating some veg(!) and feel much better this week.

Mahatma coat wrote: »

So in Conclusion Being Poor 'Sucks Donkey Balls' but being Wealthy aint that much beter in my experience, waaaaay more overheads - Rates, utilities, cartaxes, insurance, all nastily expensive.

Yea you're right having a disposable income is such a burden. And then governments ask you to support the economy-man you must have it tough. :rolleyes:

cochineal · 14-11-2008 10:58AM

Hey Crumble Froo,
You really need to do something about that mould - it's a biohazard and it will seriously affect your lungs in the long term. Take note it will, not it might. You have to kill it off first. Spray it with a mixture of half and half of alcohol and water (industrial methylated spirits etc.). Wear a mould-proof mask- 3M make one I think. Not any mask will do. For mould to grow it needs a sustained level of humidity of over 75%. If you can, buy a humidistat and attach it to a simple cheap heater such as an oil-filled heater. The humidistat will turn on the heater when the humidity gets over this level and turn off again once the humidity has dropped. It shouldn't cost much to run and will be cheaper than doctor's visits. Also make sure that you have good ventilation and air circulation - open the windows a little or make sure the vents are working. Try to position your bed against an interior wall and always leave gaps between furniture and mirrors, paintings etc and the wall they are against. You can just place a centimetre of cardboard tubing behind pictures for example. This facilitates air circulation. If you use a vacuum cleaner to take up all the bits of mould afterwards, beware that unless it has what is called a hepa filter, it will simply exhaust all the particles of mould out the back and into the air you breath. Don't want to scare you but hope this helps.

AnonoBoy · 14-11-2008 10:59AM

cochineal wrote: »

I was thinking more along the lines of being able to buy the 9 pack of kittensoft rather then the 2 pack and having to go back to the shops more often.

Kittensoft????

Ya posh git. Poor people get Valu-Brand Toilet Paper.

Rob_l · 14-11-2008 11:20AM

SteveC wrote: »

People don't rob stuff because they're poor - they rob stuff because they are assholes.

Please don't anybody reply with "they're just victims of society", they're not. They're cretins.

There are plenty of people out there that are poor and don't have to resort to criminality.

This true plenty of rich people resort to crime and its not for need

Rob_l · 14-11-2008 11:21AM

AnonoBoy wrote: »

Kittensoft????

Ya posh git. Poor people get Valu-Brand Toilet Paper.

Ah the good old sandpaper
style toilet roll

cochineal · 14-11-2008 11:22AM

You calling me a posh git? I consider buying kittensoft an investment in my country and my patriotic duty - it's the only toilet roll (excuse me for not saying bog roll) that I know of that's made in Ireland. You can stick to your super value brand.

AnonoBoy · 14-11-2008 11:27AM

cochineal wrote: »

You calling me a posh git? I consider buying kittensoft an investment in my country and my patriotic duty - it's the only toilet roll (excuse me for not saying bog roll) that I know of that's made in Ireland. You can stick to your super value brand.

Real poor people can't afford to invest in their country. They buy the cheapest available.

cochineal · 14-11-2008 11:35AM

Oh god anonoboy, now you're really being depressing. Did you type that with a straight face?

AnonoBoy · 14-11-2008 11:41AM

cochineal wrote: »

Oh god anonoboy, now you're really being depressing. Did you type that with a straight face?

I never type anything with a straight face. I type with the gayest face imaginable.

cochineal · 14-11-2008 11:46AM

I'm imagining it right now. That's got to be a strain to sustain! Ha ha ha!

Crumble Froo · 14-11-2008 11:46AM

no really. you have kittensoft, and for couple of quid cheaper, you have lidl/tesco brand... you buy the cheapest.

i have a few 'principle' purchases... wont buy meat/meat products, and only buy free range eggs. would love to be picky about milk too, but organic stuff is about $3 more expensive, and i simply can't afford it 99% of the time.

i know plenty of people in similar situations... lidl vs dunnes? not a question. lidl wins hands down nearly every time (and most of the rest goes to tescos).

cochineal · 14-11-2008 12:18PM

I shop in Lidl on Pottery Road near Bakers corner (kind of deansgrange/ rochestown avenue area)and I've seen Irish Times journalists and RTE presenters doing their shopping there and plenty of new mercedes in the car park. They've a good range of organic produce. I try to only buy organic and no processed food. Make everything myself from scratch. Works out very economically. A few years ago I was living with two Kiwi girls in Dublin and we used to pool our money to buy groceries. €30 each for the week covered everything and we ate like kings - lamb shanks, roast veg, home made sushi. We could get two meals out of one chicken - cut off the legs and breasts for fried/baked chicken and then chicken noodle soup out of the carcass. Or could combine one of the chicken breasts with "bacon misshapes" in a creamy homemade parsley sauce topped with pastry and baked in the oven for a massive homemade pie that would do for dinner and lunch the next day. Right i'm seriously going off topic. Have food on my mind. Drool.....I'm just saying there are ways to stretch the pounds that our grannies would have been adept at that we might have lost. Sure they had more time, but if you enjoy cooking and being creative, it can be done. I wish the likes of Conor Pope in the Irish Times, when he's writing reviews of food products would add a recipe so you could make it yourself and say how much it would cost. Right i've got to go do some work ......urg!!

Is being poor expensive?

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