Weekly disposable income

[mugwuffin]

I do agree though that the cause is feckless women opening their legs too often.

It takes two to tango

 

[kaptainmarc]

I watch Rich house, Poor house on Channel 4.


However, what I find interesting, is that I am typically in the Poor house camp, being left with £140 a week after mortgage and bills, yet survive fairly well (although its very difficult to save anything).

You aren't in the poor house camp at all.

you have £140 for yourself

they have £140 for a family of 4 or 5

you basically have the same as if the family of 5 had £700 a week

 

[Dis86]

It takes two to tango

It does but ultimately the woman is the one who carries the child and gives birth. It is ultinately the woman who can choose to terminate or give up the child.

 

[malachi]

However, what I find interesting, is that I am typically in the Poor house camp, being left with £140 a week after mortgage and bills, yet survive fairly well (although its very difficult to save anything).

£140 a week after bills...thats £560 a month as disposable income. Many people on here would dream to have that after bills etc. Count yourself very lucky but you in the poor camp shows that TV programme was talking trash.

 

[ttaskmaster]

How is the country going to function in the future if nobody has kids?

Peacefully and with low crime stats?

But there's no realistic way to stop it (as introducing a licence to have kids/forced abortions/etc is obviously crazy).

Only if you start sending transgressors to The Fortress, or something. True story. Stars Christopher Lambert.

We should be removing the cause, not sticking a very expensive plaster over it.

But what is the cause?
The upper class Tory rich getting richer, or the Labour lot taking from the middle classes to fund more benefits for the non-working class?

I have friends that earn 200k a month (with children), and they're no where near as snobby as some on here, who probably don't even clear 50k/year after tax.

That's because earning more than seven times my entire annual salary in just one month means you don't have to care that other people even exist, much less know enough about them to get snobby about it.

Incidentally, a snob is defined as "a person with an exaggerated respect for high social position or wealth who seeks to associate with social superiors and looks down on those regarded as socially inferior".
Nothing to do with money, especially. You can be penniless, but as Lord Rochester still be perceived as socially superior.

At what point can I brag on an Internet forum about how much I earn? Serious question. I want that right.

When you've properly earned your £200k a month without having to **** someone else over on your journey to the top?
I generally find that people earning money like that have (knowingly or occasionally otherwise) done so at the expense of others along the way, especially in management roles. Their CV reads like an episode of The Apprentice, complete with boardroom bitch-fest meetings.

 

[Uther]

People can be anything they want to be on the internet.

 

[Nitefly]

50k is twice the national average. In my circle of friends 50k is a weeks pay to 2-3 years pay. I never hold anyone's financial statues against them. If we get along and share common interests then I'm happy to be friends with anyone. Obv money does impact on certain parts of life. Like I can afford to repair my 40ft sail boat as and when required, whereas a good friend of mine would need to save hard for a good year/two to do the same repair work. I don't hold that against him, and in return he's no bitter that I spend freely.

Money is only a barrier if you make it so.

lol was there even a part of you that thought “hmm is this post a bit crass considering people in the thread infer they have money problems?” when you wrote that?

 

[Dis86]

lol was there even a part of you that thought “hmm is this post a bit crass considering people in the thread infer they have money problems?” when you wrote that?

Also highly ironic given

Easyrider V You

 

[dowie]

who'd have thought that a thread entitled "weekly disposable income" would lead to the e-peens being brought out swinging...

 

[Nitefly]

Also highly ironic given

Easyrider V You

 

[413x]

I knew this thread would turn to this.

100pw is quite a lot by national standards I would guess.
Iv'e never earnt loads never earnt nothing.
Grew up in same environment (my step dad earnt good wage but big house and us 3 kids so standard of living is about same) as I'm in now.
So I don' know poverty or being rich, I don'
even know poor.
But I've always been very good with money. No new cars, only ever 1 or 2 kids on credit at a time and always able to pay it off.
But I can say that because I earn enough.

It does suck when an impoverished family with poor attitude bring multiple kids into the world. Not because of the benifits cost, but because of the environment and upbringing.

I don't pretend to know how many people are lazy and work the system to how many are just stuck.
It' much much easier to play the moral highground card when you have money.
Courses, investing etc etc.

But yeah, when you don' have much and still bring kids into the world it isn' right. Not fair to punish the kids. So what can you do but pay benifits?

 

[Ayahuasca]

only ever 1 or 2 kids on credit at a time and always able to pay it off.

 

[413x]

I think that 50k is plenty for a couple (non London) especially if two tax allowances.
50k with kids isnt.

If I wanted a kid I wou put the minimum income at 50k for one person if Not to massively compromise my personal life style.

 

[413x]

Damn it! Things!

Im sure my android Swype keyboard has gone weird recently. Especially with words with apostrophes and when ending sentences deleting the last word.

 

[Dis86]

Damn it! Things!

Im sure my android Swype keyboard has gone weird recently. Especially with words with apostrophes and when ending sentences deleting the last word.

Always got your mind on the kids...creep!

 

[LabR@t]

I think that 50k is plenty for a couple (non London) especially if two tax allowances.
50k with kids isnt.

If I wanted a kid I wou put the minimum income at 50k for one person if Not to massively compromise my personal life style.

Having kids is all about compromising, never have the same life again.

 

[SPG]

To the OP £580 spare cash a month is sizeable amount of cash to spend after all bills.

Saving £250 of that should be a doddle.

 

[Telecaster]

I wouldn't consider myself anywhere near rich (earn less than the national yearly average) but I don't have to watch what I spend, in fact I've no idea what my actual exact monthly outgoings are other than my rent and council tax.

I've no idea how much I have left each week/month either, it just is what it is.

 

[Pawnless Endgame]

To me that's crazy. At what point did it become normal for taxpayers to subsidise other people's kids?

It's atrocious isn't it. Why should a single guy subsidise breeding? Screw it. I've already opted out of this rigged game.

Single here too, and the issue of me subsidising others does irk me because I can't have children myself. This is because of genetics, and no, IVF isn't an option either. So I don't get the choice of starting a family.

 

[SpeedFreak]

You guys are looking at this from the wrong perspective. When you were children there was some form of state support to help with your upbringing. Your contributions now are repayment for that.