Re: cruises now paid for
Originally Posted by
Purwell
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Well bully for you, why don't you brag a little bit more and tell us about the food you will be eating?
Now that is just being silly isn't it? at last my wife and I can enjoy our retirement a little can't we?
You have absolutely no idea of how much saving we have done- the long hours running our own business/ working for others and doing 5 jobs between us to start when we got engaged/ married- not even decent a honeymoon - and the so few holidays in our 43 year of marriage, I could count them on one hand.
Yes now we are retired we can afford a decent holiday once a year, a nice house and new car,
and damn well proud of it. I will shout it from the rooftops if I want to.
No golden spoon for us, started married life with nothing ,owed money on our car and a big mortgage to pay for ( on a small 2 bed terrace house with 1 small room downstairs) -bring up 2 children as well. So don't ever get the idea we were born rich, far from it.
I was even ordered to ease up by my doctor as I was loosing too much weight down to 6 stone with hard manual work and little sleep, doing anything from 14 to 16 hours a day 7 days a week, but it fed us -paid the bills- kept a roof over our heads as wells , and buying a house to start with - and out of debt apart from mortgage
By the way look what hard work can bring you with saving hard.
A new car with personal number plates £34,000
not to mention a fairly new car for my wife as well
A large 4 bedroom house, not far off £1/2m, with a huge 24ftx 48ft garage
Also helped with a deposit on my youngest sons house. Now paying us back with trips to where he is in Brazil
Peter ( Purwell)
You could have the same if you put in the same effort as we did.
OOh and the 5 jobs between us? my wife worked as a typist and on saturdays in Boots
Me
in electronic engineering during the day and evenings weekends helping repair/service cars with a car mechanic and or working in a pub depending on when I had the time/ shifts etc
Then I went to work for BT as a switchboard fitter before buying our own business