I always respect your view Pat... no problem there.
Yes I do accept there will be a small minority who genuinely have difficulties and are responsible keeping to a modest spend.
I am wound up by the hard luck stories of many though when you look at their personal ideas of what's important. My last example (I promise) being of a local out of work family who claim absolute poverty yet own three pedigree (nasty!) dogs that cost near on £500 each and goodness knows how much to feed each week. Mother chain smokes & husband spends over £1200/yr down the pub yet tells teen daughter they can't afford the odd £10/£20/£30 for her to do this or that now and again because they're too hard up.
I hate to see the social difficilty and peer pressure issues caused to the teen by this selfishness.... it's a bit of a soap box issue for me!
Last edited by: Fenlander on Fri 5 Nov 10 at 14:17
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