Is this a CUK poster, its me,me,me enough

[AtW]

Our outgoings are £3500 per month all in. Childcare, food, kids clubs, mortgage, booze etc. I try and keep it at that and rising energy/fuel prices is a pain. I recently got rid of TV subscriptions and bought freeview boxes instead saving about £600 per year. On the flip side we get £1200 a month in passive income back, so true outgoings are £2300per month. The kids get £100 per month each into savings accounts included in that as well. We don't need the child allowance but frankly on the amount of taxes i pay I'll be fecked if I'm willing to give it up, it pays for the Pinot!!!

How much personal allowance you give to your kids to spend a week?

[Mich the Tester]

So who's to say the economy won't implode again, even worse than before?

I think it will, but for a different reason.

[Sysman]

It's quite a lot; the two of us probably spend about 100 to 150 euros a week together on food and wine, but we are both foodies. However, what I've noticed about a lot of people who complain about the price of food is that they're eating pre-cut and packaged meat or the luxury cuts like fillet steaks and chicken breast; I actually love eating liver, I often make meatloaf and we both enjoy slow cooked cheap cuts, and if I'm on the bench I just make more of that kind of thing and bring food costs down to 50 euros a week or less. If you talk to a good butcher you can eat VERY well indeed for not much money at all.

WHS. Got a meatloaf in the oven right now. New(ish) potatoes and leeks, with plum pie to follow.

Yum.

[Sysman]

Just to annoy the UK residents;

Home - Gall & Gall

This isn't as cheap but likewise, and there's 20% off all wines tomorrow.

[Sysman]

Ah.

Now it's doing plastic eyeball packs from Amazon and 45+ Funeral plans.

AdBlock Plus and NoScript means I don't see that crud.

[minestrone]

The middle class used to be old banged up volvo in the drive but education marked them out and they were happy with their lot brigade, now it's bleating to the papers about material wealth and a sense of entitlement.

[Sysman]

Because you spend £81K on crap you don't need!

Good grief, cretins...

She's way too class conscious. All the crud about becoming middle class etc. Perhaps she's too busy trying to keep up with the Joneses.

Since the husband commutes by rail, a 10K car seems to be like keeping up appearances.

I had more sympathy for the middle class couple in the Telegraph circa 2000 who were on 100K combined income but with a combination of rubbish local schools and peer pressure had to cope with school fees.

[Sysman]

That's thirty quid a day on food for 4 people; 7.50 a day per person; what are they eating?

Even in Switzerland that's a stretch.

Lots of packaged food comes to mind.

[Sysman]

We don't need the child allowance but frankly on the amount of taxes i pay I'll be fecked if I'm willing to give it up, it pays for the Pinot!!!

An ex-boss got redundancy in the mid-eighties and didn't want to go on the dole, but his accountant pointed out how much he had paid in tax and he changed his mind. His dole money wasn't much, but it paid for his cigars.

[Sysman]

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June 2006 – Present (6 years 6 months) London, United Kingdom

Through established networks, strong personal brand marketing and selling skills I have acquired increasing responsibility and accountibility through various project work and continue to lead and manage niche Change Programmes by providing specialist 'Subject Matter Expertise' in the field of Regulatory Reporting, Business & Operational Risk Intelligence using Data Warehousing, Data Mining concepts, Balanced Scorecards, Key Performance and Risk Indicator design and development.

See the various programmes & projects I have worked on in my portfolio of achievements since 2006...

Doesn't that cover the period when she was squawking about losing her "job"?

Where's the snigger smiliy when you want one?