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Did you know anyone that lived beyond their means during the good times?.

  • 16-05-2011 06:56PM
    #1
    7sr2z3fely84g5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,571 ✭✭✭


    Buying suvs,cars,holidays abroad in belief the boom woundnt end.


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  • #2
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Everyone except me:p


  • #3
    Big Nasty
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,066 ✭✭✭✭Big Nasty


    Yeah - pretty much everyone I know myself included!

    Banks were throwing money at us.


  • #4
    mfceiling
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,250 ✭✭✭✭mfceiling


    Yes


  • #5
    TheZohanS
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,581 ✭✭✭✭TheZohanS


    Here we go again...


  • #6
    OutlawPete
    Closed Accounts Posts: 17,689 ✭✭✭✭OutlawPete


    I paid €30 for a wasabi burger :o


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  • #7
    Senna
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,800 ✭✭✭Senna


    Dwayne Chubby Skyscraper wrote: »
    Buying suvs,cars,holidays abroad in belief the boom woundnt end.

    People didn't know we were in a bubble, so most didn't know it would/could end.

    I was never a big believer in taking out loans or credit cards, but i did spend every penny i made like my life depended on it.
    Most people did the same, it was the purchase of property that fecked everyone up.


  • #8
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    The holidays were worth it.


  • #9
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    The holidays were worth it.

    Did you enjoy Courtown? :pac:


  • #10
    Pighead
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,184 ✭✭✭✭Pighead


    Yes. Mammy bought herself a dishwasher back in 2007. Totally unnecessary purchase for a woman with two fully functional hands.

    Pighead and his Daddy are always shouting into the kitchen telling her how lazy she is as she cooks our dinner for us.


  • #11
    Babalons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 227 ✭✭Babalons


    hondasam wrote: »
    The holidays were worth it.

    Ohh my god, the holidays. So True. Craziness of epic proportions in far flung regions of this beautiful planet. For that alone... thank you Boom. :)


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  • #12
    Wheelie King
    Closed Accounts Posts: 238 ✭✭Wheelie King


    The boom has ended?


  • #13
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    kfallon wrote: »
    Did you enjoy Courtown? :pac:

    yes and my trip to Dublin was exciting.


  • #14
    TeddyTedson
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,758 ✭✭✭✭TeddyTedson


    Pighead wrote: »
    Yes.Pigheads Mammy bought herself a dishwasher back in 2007. Totally unnecessary purchase for a woman with two fully functional hands.

    Pighead and his Daddy are always shouting into the kitchen telling her how lazy she is as she cooks our dinner for us.
    I've fixed it for ya.

    If I had some spare change right now I'd go on holiday for 2 weeks. I need to a break from real life!


  • #15
    temply
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 821 ✭✭✭temply


    I do. One mate in particular went mad spending cash. Lost his job, can barely make his mortgage repayments now.


  • #16
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    yes and my trip to Dublin was exciting.

    Visit The Zoo and then go to McDonalds??? :pac:


  • #17
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    Pighead wrote: »
    Yes. Mammy bought herself a dishwasher back in 2007. Totally unnecessary purchase for a woman with two fully functional hands.

    Pighead and his Daddy are always shouting into the kitchen telling her how lazy she is as she cooks our dinner for us.

    The food must taste funny if she cooked it in the Dishwasher.


  • #18
    hondasam
    Closed Accounts Posts: 34,418 ✭✭✭✭hondasam


    kfallon wrote: »
    Visit The Zoo and then go to McDonalds??? :pac:

    No just booked into the Merrion hotel for a week and ordered room service.


  • #19
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    The food must taste funny if she cooked it in the Dishwasher.

    Might still have been an improvement tho :D


  • #20
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    hondasam wrote: »
    No just booked into the Merrion hotel for a week and ordered room service.

    Order the ould Tug TV??? :p


  • #21
    Knasher
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,370 ✭✭✭Knasher


    Nope, my friends and I lived well within our means during the boom. Though to be honest that probably has more to do with being a poor college student at the time than anything else.


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  • #22
    kfallon
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 25,775 ✭✭✭✭kfallon


    Knasher wrote: »
    Nope, my friends and I lived well within our means during the boom. Though to be honest that probably has more to do with being a poor college student at the time than anything else.

    Are students who live above their means those that buy Heinz Beans or Spaghetti Hoops over Spar own brand beans :confused:


  • #23
    theteal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,590 ✭✭✭theteal


    Dwayne Chubby Skyscraper wrote: »
    Buying suvs,cars,holidays abroad in belief the boom woundnt end.
    Babalons wrote: »
    For that alone... thank you Boom. :)
    Wheelie King wrote: »
    The boom has ended?

    they've changed the spelling. . .it's b. . .u. . .b. . .b. . .l. . .e


  • #24
    RachaelVO
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,108 ✭✭✭RachaelVO


    hondasam wrote: »
    The holidays were worth it.

    Where they ever worth it. I'll die without a pot to p1ss in, but I had a good time!


  • #25
    liah
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,750 ✭✭✭liah


    hondasam wrote: »
    The food must taste funny if she cooked it in the Dishwasher.

    People actually do that with fish and stuff. I'm not sure I'd have the nerve, knowing what goes into the dishwasher :eek:


  • #26
    prinz
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,598 ✭✭✭✭prinz


    Yeah I know of more than a few although they weren't friends then and they still aren't.


  • #27
    starviewadams
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,116 ✭✭✭starviewadams


    Not really,but the fella nextdoor sold his construction equipment rental business for way more then it was actually worth cos he saw the bubble was about to burst,though in fairness to him he threw a deadly retirement party for himself and invited everyone on our road to it,very rare thing in these parts of Clondalkin!


  • #28
    Dudess
    Closed Accounts Posts: 37,214 ✭✭✭✭Dudess


    C'mon peeps - don't you know "we" "all" lost the run of ourselves!

    Apparently.


  • #29
    Giselle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,540 ✭✭✭Giselle


    liah wrote: »
    People actually do that with fish and stuff. I'm not sure I'd have the nerve, knowing what goes into the dishwasher :eek:

    I'm not sure you're supposed to wash a load at the same time.;)


  • #30
    CiaranC
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,300 ✭✭✭CiaranC


    I got a job which paid stupid money, availed myself of loads of cheap credit and blew it all on expensive restaurants, drugs and travel. Now Im living debt free and saving to go off on another round-the-world. Those who didnt fall into the property trap did quite well out of the whole thing.


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  • #31
    Ghost Buster
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 5,172 ✭✭✭Ghost Buster


    Myself and my wife work in lowly paid but fairly secure jobs and built a tiny 3 bedroomed, 1 bathroomed bungalow on the lowest mortgage we possibly could. We didnt get extra for furniture, decorated it ourselves, did our own garden etc etc and we are planning a family (1 kid and one on the way)
    My work mate who is older than me, makes slightly less, who's 1 child has moved to college built a massive 6 bedroomed, 3 en suite two story mansion with landscaped gardens, the works. There is just her and her husband living in it. Did i mention 6 bddrooms???:eek:
    We are comfy and getting by.
    She is strapped and in arrears.
    I genuinely have no sympathy.


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