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  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14342

    That kind of help would not suit me, Kj. You're talking about means tested benefits that take into account your income from work and deduct money accordingly so that you can't make any money from working! That would be a life of misery for me, Kj and perhaps jeopardise my wife's chance for her visa renewal, that says no recourse to public funds!

  • trellis
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    edited January 2018 #14343

    Malcolm,you mention renting out rooms to lodger's , that alone tells me perhaps that house was too big for you .The simple answer would have been to look at down sizing. Less expenditure ,not exactly rocket science .

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14344

    Most houses have two to three bedrooms, trellis. The house I used to have in Rochester, Kent was a three bedroomed end of terrace house purchased for £17,500 in 1983. It was a downsize from the previous house in Wrexham which was a three bedroomed detached house.

  • Milothedog
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    edited January 2018 #14345

    But what will you do in the future as you become older and can't work anymore. God forbid, but what if you lost your licence through health reasons ?

    None of us know whats around the next corner, do you have a fall back plan.  I'm not knocking how you choose to live but I personally, If I lived like you do, would want to have some sense of security if my health became an issue.

  • Francis
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    edited January 2018 #14346

    Woke up this morning looked out the window and the whole street was covered in snow so it will be a day in the house for us which isn't a problem as the snooker Masters final is on. Last night we booked a couple of weekends at regular sites and a long weekend at Stonehaven CAMC in May looking forward to that one as we have never been there before

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14347

    I have to hope that I won't lose my licence because apart from caravanning, my job depends on it too! By the time I'm too old to drive, there'll be driverless cars!

  • Oneputt
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    edited January 2018 #14348

    For the last couple of hours I’ve been sorting out photo’s, managed to delete over a thousand.  Have cleaned up my desktop computer so have free’d up over 7 gigabytes of space. Now on to looking at trip abroad, hopefully in May.  Originally thought we would go to Latvia but now thinking about the Black Forest, Austrian Tyrol and Northern Italy.  Decisions, decisions.laughing

  • KjellNN
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    edited January 2018 #14349

    Cold here with heavy snow falling, our caravan is snowed  in on its pitch on our driveway, just as well we do not have to move!

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14350

    So you what you are actually saying is that the houses you had in the past were "purchased"when the cost was not taken into account and you were living beyond your meansundecided

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14351

    Regrettably, at that time I was married to someone that refused to live in a caravan. There could have been savings in the bank if she had agreed, instead she preferred to opt for a life of debt. Her view was that she didn't want to look after a baby in a caravan! I couldn't convince her of the difficulty of looking after a baby when there was no money to buy nappies!

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14352

    So all the financial woes of the past were because you have always wanted to live a"travellers life"but you previous  wife wanted a secure real lifewink

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14353

    I couldn't  see how a life of debt with no money to buy food, clothes, nappies for the baby could be regarded as a real life! No doubt the building society was enjoying the real life from the interest payments that they were getting from the mortgage, whilst I was getting a life of struggle!

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14354

    Why did you have to keep buying nappies? as we used cotton nappies that lasted for years

    As noted by the majority of your posts ,which alter to suit what you think is going to cover for you being a big WUMwink

  • Oneputt
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    edited January 2018 #14355

    Interesting 10 minutes chasing a neighbours chicken around our garden after it escaped 🐔

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14356

    My ex-wife preferred to have disposable nappies because she didn't want to be bothered with the laundry!

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14357

    Did you manage to catch it, Oneputt?

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14358

    So you have never thought that you could have assisted undecided or were still to busy with pizza deliveriessurprised

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14359

    I couldn't assist her in any way at all because I felt that it was the wrong way to live but she wouldn't listen to me,  thinking that she knew best and her way was the right way, for no other reason, than that it was what she preferred! She was encouraged by her mother who kept telling her how much better it is these days with disposable nappies than in the old days!

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14360

    You certainly  live in a very strange world,your latest wife is either very accomadating or very nieve to the real worldwink

  • Tammygirl
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    edited January 2018 #14361

    Sounds like a case of, Its not me, I didn't do it, its not my fault.

    Always finds someone or something else to blame, I pity your wife.

  • KjellNN
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    edited January 2018 #14362

    I agree with your ex wife!  How many wives would want to live in a caravan, especially with a baby to look after?

    Our first was born in 1970, even then there were disposable nappies.  If you consider the cost of reusable nappies, the hassle and cost of washing them, the wear on the washing machine, it is probably not that much more expensive to use disposables.

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14363

    That's not what JVB66 said though. JVB66 was of the opinion that I should have used cloth nappies and assisted her in washing them for re-use to save money on the cost of disposables!

    Thankfully, Kj, that way of life is well and truly over! I'm no longer trapped in a house that I can't afford. Instead, I have the freedom of the road! The world is my oyster!

  • Yertiz
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    edited January 2018 #14364

    This thread  just gets better and better! undecided

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14365

    And then i thought that you were a bit more savvy than that,when working out costswink

  • Malcolm Mehta
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    edited January 2018 #14366

    Doesn't it just!

  • milliehull
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    edited January 2018 #14367

    The needle seems to have got stuck again. Just one subject of discussion.

  • JVB66
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    edited January 2018 #14368

    But as you have said in past posts that your "job"is just for "pocket money" as you now at 65 receive your state pension and "other pensions?"it should not matter if you can no longer drive, but then most of us who also are "pensioners " can get about on public transport and not have to think about moving on to somewhere elsewink

  • huskydog
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    edited January 2018 #14369

    I'll come back tomorrow undecided

  • Milothedog
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    edited January 2018 #14370

    " The world is my oyster!"

     

    You mean a given radius in Sussex really from what I have read........

  • JayEss
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    edited January 2018 #14371

    it seems to be stuck in the 1800s as well surprised

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