I’ve rented all my adult life and have never even had a small yard never mind a lovely garden like that. But I’ve made fab homely spaces with what I’ve got and I’d bore my pals to tears if all I went on about was not owning property. She needs to learn to appreciate what she’s got and stop bringing everything back to the haves/have-nots. It gets dull. Imagine the dinner party chat!Oh for ffswhy is that even necessary? Why does she need to add in the 32x my income bit? We get it, IT'S RENTED, YOU CAN'T AFFORD TO BUY IT,
NEWS FLASH, NOBODY bleeping CARES THAT YOU DON'T OWN YOUR OWN HOME AND HAVE TO RENT A 'crappy' BUNGALOW
They really need an eyeroll reaction added
I'm no accountant, but, um, *doubt it*.
)It’s just such an unboundaried overshare that no one need know. I love talking about personal finance & think it’s so important for women especially but like... this ain’t it x
Depends which of her incomes she's using though.
She managed to stretch our threads to 8,000 pages. So by the same logic the bungalow is, in reality, probably no more than 5x her income. (Please note no actual calculations have been made, it’s late
Does she even know what her income is, anyway? If she does why hasn’t she filed her (very overdue) accounts?
also so much for polenta being fancy.
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She only seems to mention him when it adds into how poor she is or how marvellous she is. She's got three siblings and is living in her home town. Judging from his screen name on Mumsnet, his father is relatively local. Even before lockdown, going through her articles, tweets etc, there's no mention of aunties, uncles, grandparents or playing with cousins etc. It's like she's cut herself off, and hence also her son. Yes, her parents may have not been able to help much when they finally found out how she was struggling, but what about her siblings? It's like she wants to portray herself as alone against the uncaring world because she's so poor and, did she tell you?, lives in a rented, crappy bungalow (with stairs).
I was, to be fair. But Mrs J won’t let her have one will she? She makes her kid sound like a burdensome affliction, and her partner sound like a miserable hag.
She’s got to be trolling us with this, surely?!!Even when she’s gushing about how lucky she is she has to keep it on brand “cheap”
The British are one of the only European countries so obsessed with home ownership, in Germany apparently it’s really not the done thing (sorry if this is wrong German friends it’s just what I’ve read
) but that’s because they have SUCH good laws to protect renters, like long term contracts, rights to have pets/decorate, actual standards... whilst in the UK it’s a real shitshow because slumlords are allowed to do whatever they want.) It’s a lot of grief & admin, it’s stolen the remainder of my carefree youth tbh. I drove my car into our house when parking on the drive (was so scared of scratching the other car my brain forgot the house), heard a crunch and had a panic attack cos I thought I’d driven through the bleeping wall. Any time the boiler makes a new noise you feel like you’re gonna tit yourself too. I’d rather the papered ceiling than the anxiety disorder Exactly. Glorifying being a home owner is bollocks. Make renting fairer across the board and get rid of the snobbery and envy between it all.The British are one of the only European countries so obsessed with home ownership, in Germany apparently it’s really not the done thing (sorry if this is wrong German friends it’s just what I’ve read
TBH it sounds hypocritical and I appreciate it’s easy to say from a comparative position of privilege in owning, but I was underwhelmed when we did and I don’t think people speak about that enough. They’re too busy sharing smug pics on insta (when their parents paid for it?! That tit should be banned
The British are one of the only European countries so obsessed with home ownership, in Germany apparently it’s really not the done thing (sorry if this is wrong German friends it’s just what I’ve read
TBH it sounds hypocritical and I appreciate it’s easy to say from a comparative position of privilege in owning, but I was underwhelmed when we did and I don’t think people speak about that enough. They’re too busy sharing smug pics on insta (when their parents paid for it?! That tit should be banned
no she’s just THAT defensive about her income.
Yep!! Tbh social housing is our only answer, it’ll also make fairer societies too, eg you won’t only be able to go to an outstanding school if your parents live in a £800k house. Reduces silos & encourages inclusion.
Oh bless you, I feel your pain. Cats have fucked parts of our (old, thankfully due for replacing) living room carpet and I bleeping hate it, cringe whenever I look at it. Today when vacuuming our brand new carpet upstairs I’ve seen what looks like plucking so entered a panic vortex over that
Life’s a marathon not a sprint tho, one day we’ll fix this tit x
