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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by Swiss Tony View Post
    Affluent yes, but tight as a ducks ar*e when it comes to our own money! Think it comes from when we didn’t have bucket loads.
    No point in dying rich... and always at the back of my mind is how it was before... but you do have a right to enjoy the fruits of your labour...

    IMHO when working away, a Travelodge is preferable to a 5 star hotel in terms of saving dosh... but I could not extend that rational to staying in a bedsit... I do need a certain level of comfort and privacy.

    All a question of balance

    More Moody Blues later

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  • Swiss Tony
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    I lived in a bedsit during student days... <shudder> not sure I would want to go back to that kind of life style

    FFS we are affluent people!!!
    Affluent yes, but tight as a ducks ar*e when it comes to our own money! Think it comes from when we didn’t have bucket loads.

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Horrible, dank, dark, smelly, cold flea pits... perfect BTLs, but not suitable abodes for contractors.

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  • Troll
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    I lived in a bedsit during student days... <shudder> not sure I would want to go back to that kind of life style

    FFS we are affluent people!!!

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
    Isn't that where you've got all those Polish gardeners living?
    Shhhh! I'm making a fortune!

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  • Moscow Mule
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    Originally posted by DBA_bloke View Post
    He can stay in my shed. I think there's an old mattress in there, and I trapped all the mice, I think. kesm: Yours for £100 per week. Lights out by 11pm, thanks.

    Isn't that where you've got all those Polish gardeners living?

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Originally posted by chicane View Post
    A wise man once said that the journey to wealth is not about how much you earn, but how much you save. The OP, lying on his skanky mattress in a room with mouldy walls, surrounded by flies and used needles, has obviously taken this advice on board in his decision to choose a bedsit over something more pleasant.
    He can stay in my shed. I think there's an old mattress in there, and I trapped all the mice, I think. kesm: Yours for £100 per week. Lights out by 11pm, thanks.

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  • chicane
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    Originally posted by Pondlife View Post
    This is a contractors website FFS.
    A wise man once said that the journey to wealth is not about how much you earn, but how much you save. The OP, lying on his skanky mattress in a room with mouldy walls, surrounded by flies and used needles, has obviously taken this advice on board in his decision to choose a bedsit over something more pleasant.

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  • Pondlife
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    Bedsits????

    This is a contractors website FFS.

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Were there bedbugs?
    As big as your hand!

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Originally posted by fzbucks View Post
    have stayed in one it was good

    friend stayed in a different one it was bad

    HTH
    I have stayed in both of those.

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  • fzbucks
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    Originally posted by kesm View Post
    Seriously now, does anyone have experience in living in one or know much about them?

    thanks.

    have stayed in one it was good

    friend stayed in a different one it was bad

    HTH

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  • vetran
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Nope.

    I lived in Travel Lodges and Travel Inns...

    ....

    The disadvantage is not being able to listen to orgasmic wimmin at varying times of the day & night.
    Speak for yourself.

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  • kesm
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    Seriously now, does anyone have experience in living in one or know much about them?

    thanks.

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  • DBA_bloke
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    Congratulations! You are this week's winner of "The Most Open-ended Question" competition.

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