Where can they cut back on money???

[joe_90]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185

Any ideas?

[robuk]

ban Sky

[oyster]

joe_90 said:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-16812185

Any ideas?

Damn you.
Now needing some Savlon for my burnt bladder.

[rovermorris999]

Baccy, booze, Sky. Do I get a prize?

[qube_TA]

So the wife can't work and his work dried up 10 years ago (but can't retrain), yet in the middle of all that they decided to have an extra child.

[BertieWooster]

anonymous said:

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+1. The dad should also man up and tell the teenage kids that if they want a mobile phone they should pay for it themselves.

Bertie W

[jains15]

rovermorris999 said:

Says Ray: "The market for my skills dried up 10 years ago - there's a total lack of work in my area of expertise."

This boils my piss. Get another fking job then you useless sod. ANECDOTE: The unemployed guy who used to live next to me used to always go on about the Polish who took away his plastering work, fair enough they do generally work for less money. However a massive new Sainsbury's opened near our building. Less than 5 mins walk, probably about 3, you can see it from my kitchen window. Did he apply for a job there?

Did he fk.

[maxrider]

Great, so they 'get' nearly £100 a week more than me doing 40hrs a week. I don't have Sky either or smoke!

So his area of expertise has dried up? Is he not capable of retraining or taking unskilled work?

And I notice the Mrs is 'disabled' with the trendy but unprovable tag that many doleys claim to have.

They are a typical caricature.

[Syd knee]

Are the other 2 parrents working?they only have 1 child jointly, why do they need to spend £32 a week on phone calls.

[MOTORVATOR]

Don't know how they manage.

Perhaps I could get a couple of the chaps on site who earn £11.00 an hour for a 47.5 hour week and pay tax on that to let them know.

[don4l]

Does Sky really cost £15.00 per week?

Don
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[thinfourth2]

240 pounds a week on food?

Thats more then us which is myself the wife and 4 big dogs

And we really aren't looking in the value meals section and have some steak at least once a week

maybe its because the wife can cook

[Willy Nilly]

If their benefits were cut they would have to make whatever cut backs they had to to survive.

Sounds like a good career move, being on benefits.

[0a]

thinfourth2 said:

240 pounds a week on food?

Exactly, that's astounding. Get down a good local butcher and on your local market and you could cut half and eat better.

For a start they can cut:
Food (£120)
Shows (?£10)
Booze (£15)
Fags (£50)
Sky (£15)
Mobile (£30) - buy cheap PAYG and use landline for outgoing, so say £2 per week

That's £240 a week for a start.

[Sonic]

At first glance i thought those figures were per month, not per week!!!

Who the hell spends £240/week on food shopping and £32/week on mobile phones?!

[roachcoach]

don4l said:

Does Sky really cost £15.00 per week?

Don
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If you have:


Sky TV
Entertainment Packs
Sky Entertainment Extra
Premium Packs
Movies 1
Movies 2
Sports 1
Sports 2
HD Pack


It's about that.


And 24 cans of lager a week? wow, and I thought I was a heavy drinker!

[tubbystu]

qube_TA said:

So the wife can't work and his work dried up 10 years ago (but can't retrain), yet in the middle of all that they decided to have an extra child.

Perhaps he was thinking about the possibility of retraining as a sexeducational software writer,

or he mistakenly went for the easy pink rather than his usual preference of the difficult brown one night after several of his weekly 24 cans lager

[0a]

I also missed this:



Last week I purchased 7 meals of meat for 3 people from our local butcher for £20 without even trying to budget. Buy outside of premium steak and you can eat very well indeed.

[spitfire-ian]

With the fags...

said:

On the cigarettes, my wife tried to give up, but she missed one appointment on the course and they threw her off it.'

So basically he's saying it's not her fault she's spending £50 a week

[Dracoro]

Astounding

Other £91 - Will give benefit of doubt on this.
Entertainment £20 -Certainly NOT essential so £5 (rent a movie once a week)
Phone+Internet £7 - OK, could be cut but will leave as is
Water Rates £15 - OK
Sky TV £15 - Certainly NOT essential
Council Tax £18 - OK.
Public transport £30 - OK.
Mobiles £32 - Certainly NOT essential.
Energy bill £38 - OK
Rent £76 - OK (Bargain actually! )
Weekly shopping £240 - £150 (£50/60 must be fags/booze at least).
So, current weekly total is £582.
Savings made, total is £430 - that's £150 saved, easily, per week.

The cap is £82 less, so that's still nigh on £70 a week more than they "really" need.

Love this quote from the family

family said:

I see eight people here having to choose between eating or heating.

Yet they won't choose between these and Sky/Mobiles/Beer/Fags/Entertainment......................Pathetic

Edited by Dracoro on Wednesday 1st February 14:31