29-12-2015, 08:46 AM
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I don't....
.....have Sky or any other pay TV, I don't buy newspapers, I don't have a window cleaner, I don't use a mobile phone and I don't go down the pub or visit the hairdresser.I shop at Aldi and I don't shop at Waitrose or Sainsbury's or Tesco.
I am not a slave to fashion and I don't have any designer labels, my clothes come from BHS.
Although I am no Scrooge, I reckon I must save a fortune by being 'careful' with money and not wasting it on stuff I don't need.
My only indulgence is my car ... a Jaguar !
Anyone else like me out there ?
29-12-2015, 11:07 AM
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Re: I don't....
I don't have much money Malcolm but if I died tomorrowI could not say I haven't had a good life. I would be saying
that if I was leading your life at the moment.
Each to his own I suppose but let go sometimes for goodness
sake otherwise you will die with nothing to think about.
29-12-2015, 11:42 AM
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It is easy to say to someone who doesn't spend....'Spend it, you don't want to be the richest man in the graveyard'! They have probably been frugal all their lives and it's hard to change a habit of a lifetime! It's a shame really, that for many of us money comes too late in our lives. When you are young and struggling to pay a mortgage and bringing up a family, you could do with the money then!I know a man. He is a millionaire three times over and he has been so tight all his life. He buys all his clothes from charity shops and goes to the local sports club when the cricket is on to get the sandwiches. He has now got Dementia and his wife is spending the lot!!
29-12-2015, 11:49 AM
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Originally Posted by Artangel
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It is easy to say to someone who doesn't spend....'Spend it, you don't want to be the richest man in the graveyard'! They have probably been frugal all their lives and it's hard to change a habit of a lifetime! It's a shame really, that for many of us money comes too late in our lives. When you are young and struggling to pay a mortgage and bringing up a family, you could do with the money then! I know a man. He is a millionaire three times over and he has been so tight all his life. He buys all his clothes from charity shops and goes to the local sports club when the cricket is on to get the sandwiches. He has now got Dementia and his wife is spending the lot!!
29-12-2015, 11:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Docholliday
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For gawd sake get a life man enjoy spending a bit of cash or do you want to be the richest corpse in the cemetary? Worse still leaving all your hard earned money to money grabbing relatives!
I consider that my personal parsimony started when I became a penniless orphan with no family to help me at fifteen and struggled to find enough money to keep a full belly, I had plastic bags over my socks to keep my feet dry as I walked to work in my shoes with holes in the soles.
Things are very different these days of course but I can't seem to shake off the frugality of those early days.
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