Britains Spending Secrets

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This is going to go badly for the first chump on the show... paid £2k for a £900 freezer on finance

And its the companies offering it that are the bad guys with statements like "I'm on benefits, but why shouldn't I have the finer things in life" - Brilliant.

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wobert said:

P*ss well and truly boiled.......

Moron isn't she.

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straight dad said:

Nice jeans Laura

I was thinking similar.

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And here we have the PH special, 100k but spend like 500k

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MC Bodge said:

An unusual programme.

Manipulative and showing stereotypes (there are obviously aristocrats who splash the cash, poor people living frugally, new money people with subtle tastes etc.), but quite interesting nevertheless.

The "aspirational" middle income family husband came out of it quite quite badly. As a middle income family person, I don't behave like that. I try to behave like a baron. I watched it on our CRT TV

When they were going through the house of the couple from Northants i genuinely thought they were going to have 2 or 3 x the income they did. Especially given the bulk of the salary is from just her so not as tax friendly as earning £50k each, mad load of crap. But it did highlight to me that you can live a really nice life on what is not a vast amount of money outside of the SE, that house was £400k it said, made me consider a move to Bedford given that buys you a crap 2 bed flat round where I am (and many others in London area I would imagine).

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MC Bodge said:

I would suggest that Most people are not as "well-off" as the image they portray would suggest.

You can have a very nice life on a not massive income. A lot of people always want more, but all they then do is spend more on more expensive versions of what they already have.

No of course, I made a comment on a car finance thread that alluded to that. Amusingly sometimes it works the other way too, a recent example was the sale of my neighbour opposites house, it was not far from a million asking, and the people that have bought it have a mondeo and an audi a1, this isn't the vision most people have of people capable of buying million pound houses, but it goes to show how far people can and will stretch themselves on a mortgage over other aspects of their lives.

I do find it all quite interesting how people differ with money, even close friends and family, some of the attitudes are incredible in both extremes.

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£10 million now apparently

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3203400/...

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That starbucks comment

Perhaps had he been talking about Farrow&Ball or Wholefoods I could agree, but Starbucks Utter .

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monthefish said:

How do you know its a stretch?

He's a friend of a friend so I know a bit of background.

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I already know I will hate Rosie, unless she is fit, then I will hate her a bit less.

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I don't think it was net income was it? Who quotes that usually?

But yes, I can't see how you can be doing 8 grand on holidays and 1k on laptops each xmas along with 200 quid sunglasses for the kids. There again the mortgage on a place up there could be under 500 quid.

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Probably the mortgage on their 4 bed terrace in Fulham and private school for the kids.

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Yep, its all made in some stpit in Turkey, just some get a Mulberry Logo some don't.

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Yes women seem to only adhere to the stone ages when it suits them.