[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

Up till the age of 11 we seemed loaded. I went to primary school in a rough area where most people were on benefits and had loads of kids but we were the typical 2.4 kid family, mum and dad worked, had a mortgage, we had a car, went on holidays (always in the UK but the best holidays), we went to Alton Towers and Blackpool at least once a year etc etc and I thought we were proper rich.

Then, I got a scholarship at a Grammar School and realised just how not rich we were. Some of the kids I went to school with were obscenely well off.

This sounds like my 9 year old; she has absolutely no concept of the fact that we aren't "rich folks" because she always has nice new clothes, we go on holiday a lot, always have the new games console / ridiculously expensive gaming PCs etc. (not that I inherited any tendencies from my dad ) ... but then she doesn't understand at all why we can't just send her to the local private highschool that some of her friends will be going to after primary, and that £18,000-a-year school fees are ... not within our price range ... when it's not an issue for some of her friends.

(thankfully) our own household income has tripled or more since my eldest was born and is still increasing year-on-year somehow, and touch wood. She doesn't believe me when I tell her that I was pushing her in her buggy 2 miles to town, in the rain, with holes in my shoes when she was 1 . Though I think everyone should be poor for a little while... I'll never forget not being able to run a car, or the blood-chilling panic of getting a measly £80 gas bill on the mat. That was enough to send me into a full on panic and now (****ing shamefully to be honest) we're in a position to have spent £80 on Starbucks in the space of 10 days . So I guess maybe I learned nothing from having no money as I clearly go through it like water now . Err...

[LeatherTrumpet]

what you need is a good death every now and then. The TL's mum died recently and she made a few quid and now she has a nice 3 story town house to flog



meanwhile my old Mum is still grimly hanging on

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what you need is a good death every now and then. The TL's mum died recently and she made a few quid and now she has a nice 3 story town house to flog



meanwhile my old Mum is still grimly hanging on

this is quite rude LT

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what you need is a good death every now and then. The TL's mum died recently and she made a few quid and now she has a nice 3 story town house to flog



meanwhile my old Mum is still grimly hanging on

I mean despite my mum being poor latterly, she died relatively young (60) and thus left behind some pension pot that was split between me and my sister. We got just over £30k each and it evaporated in less than a year. Floated away on a gentle breeze . So I guess it depends. But I loosely agree; a friend of mine's Grandfather-in-law left his wife a 6-figure sum so now they're in their early 30's, with a nice house and no mortgage .

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by nicky91

this is quite rude lt d:

have you met my mother?

[Cal.]

When I die nobody is having my things

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

have you met my mother?

He built a time machine in his basement and impregnated her LT .

[Liam-]

We weren’t poor, but we weren’t anywhere close to being well off either, both parents worked full time, always went on days out, had multiple camping/caravan holidays every year, budgets didn’t stretch to anything abroad, but it didn’t need to, we had great times with what we could afford, plus, I was the youngest of four with a gap of 10 years between me and the eldest so by the time I got to the age of properly wanting or needing anything, I pretty much had 5 people spoiling me cause I was dead cute

[Nicky91]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

have you met my mother?

i wasn't calling that bit rude though, the thing you said before to TS about his mom dying, i called that rude from you

[LeatherTrumpet]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i wasn't calling that bit rude though, the thing you said before to TS about his mom dying, i called that rude from you

go re read it again

[Daniel-X]

Used to be quite rich when I was really young as my dad had his own plastering business and my mum is a social worker, but then they divorced and my dad passed in 2010. We’re probably ‘lower-middle class’ never hard for money but not insanely rich either.

[Marsh.]

Neither really. We got by and never went without.

Me and my sister brought up by a single mum who worked all the hours she could.

Wouldn't change anything really.

[JerseyWins]

Definitely middle

[BBDodge]

2 1/2 years in an upstairs flat with Mum, Dad & elder sister
5 1/2 years in a 3 bedroom semi with Mum, Dad, elder sister & younger brother
10 years in a 4 bedroom detached with Mum, Dad, 2 sisters & brother

Wouldn't describe any of them as poor or rich but they got better over the years.

[Cherie]

We owned our own home and farm but we were pretty poor financially as payments were quarterly or something ridiculous like that, but we didn't stave although I do remember having holes in my shoes once

[Toy Soldier]

Originally Posted by Marsh.

Neither really. We got by and never went without.

Me and my sister brought up by a single mum who worked all the hours she could.

Wouldn't change anything really.

What about the crippling Father Complex that makes you incessantly hunger for dick?

[Jason.]

Neither. We were working class but comfortable.

My parents don't even own a house so my older brother/sister and I (we're the ones with good paying jobs) still give my mum some money each month to help with rent/bills even though we don't live there.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Toy Soldier

What about the crippling Father Complex that makes you incessantly hunger for dick?

I tried it once and didn't like it.

[Marsh.]

Originally Posted by Jason.

Neither. We were working class but comfortable.

My parents don't even own a house so my older brother/sister and I (we're the ones with good paying jobs) still give my mum some money each month to help with rent/bills even though we don't live there.

This is lovely.

[smudgie]

We had a beautiful house, gardener, nanny etc.
But my dad was a gambler, so we could go hungry at times.
School fees could go unpaid etc, not good really.
Parents got divorced, dad went back to live with my Nanna and sorted himself out.
Hubby and I started off with big mortgage and 2 little mouths to feed.
Took the kids all over, bought a cheap second..or even third hand caravan and had great holidays in the country.
Hubby worked very hard very long hours, kids had enough, they had a happy childhood so I consider ourselves rich from that point of view.

[armand.kay]

Originally Posted by Cal.

When I die nobody is having my things

then the government gets them luv

[Marsh.]

Yeah, that thing I've mentioned.... twice in my 11 years on the forum. Oh dear, someone has an obsession.

Put your drink down, eh!

[montblanc]

Originally Posted by LeatherTrumpet

what you need is a good death every now and then. The TL's mum died recently and she made a few quid and now she has a nice 3 story town house to flog



meanwhile my old Mum is still grimly hanging on

oh my goodness

[LaLaLand]

"Average" I guess but more on the poor side knowing what I know now. Me and my sister didn't suspect a thing though, great childhood.

Everyone was the same though around here if their parents worked in the local factory that shut. TBH there was only one family I knew our of everyone who seemed "rich" actually (first ones to get a home PC, gadgets, branded clothes, annual holidays abroad etc), everyone else was just regular, wore clothes off the market and holidayed in Rhyl. Amazing!

[Redway]

Originally Posted by Nicky91

i wasn't calling that bit rude though, the thing you said before to TS about his mom dying, i called that rude from you

I’ve got a little inkling that LT’s being ironic Nicky.