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Posts: 476 (26/03/2008 22:50:00) |
did you consider yourself to be well off
I thought myself well off when i had a bucket of clothes pegs and i could use two pegs to a garment how sad is that Nancy |
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Posts: 1335 (26/03/2008 22:52:53) |
I think I am well off...... well, not as well off as I was in the UK, but well off in real terms.....
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Posts: 1335 (26/03/2008 22:54:11) |
So, nothing like what we had in theUK - no plane for example, but a far better pace of life.
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Posts: 5284 (26/03/2008 22:56:46) |
oh yes this tread takes me back in the 70s when i first got married we live in a house that had no bathroom and a toilet at the end of the garden we use to get
the tin bath out to bath then we got a house on new towns in welingbourgh and the house had a lovely indoor bathroom i felt i was rich to beable to put the
plug in and fill a bath and un plug it to empty it and not have to fill a tin bath and empty it
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Posts: 5680 (26/03/2008 23:01:08) |
My family felt rich when the council built a very silly little porch outside the back door which led to another door so that the outside loo could now be
called an inside one!
But I felt well off the day I got my first car........ a 1966 mini which cost me £25! I thought it was the bees knees! C xx |
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Posts: 6196 (26/03/2008 23:01:38) |
We thought we were well off and the bee's knees when we moved house in the mid/late 70s and chose to put in an avocado bathroom suite and psychadelic
wallpaper in avocado, purple and puce!
 
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Posts: 1335 (26/03/2008 23:12:19) |
ELAINE LUCY wrote: OMG!! Did we buy your house????? Oh, no just remembered, was purple, puce and pink........!
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Posts: 4178 (26/03/2008 23:16:57) |
I guess I felt like we were well off when we got a colour tv, no-one else in my school had one and I remember my nan used to come and look at it for a while
and then say she would go back to her own room and watch the proper one! No idea how my mum managed to get it but we loved it.
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Posts: 6196 (26/03/2008 23:19:07) |
mazfrance wrote: Did it have an air raid shelter too? |
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Posts: 1335 (26/03/2008 23:20:51) |
ELAINE LUCY wrote: Well, it had a coal bunker!!!!! |
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Posts: 6196 (26/03/2008 23:22:11) |
I'd forgotten the coal bunker!!!!
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Posts: 1335 (26/03/2008 23:22:54) |
starcyl wrote: My grandad got the first one in our family, my parents lived overseas. Was sooo coool to watch colour programmes when no-one else at school had them |
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Posts: 1024 (26/03/2008 23:24:27) |
I though I was well off and ancient all at once. I had just bought my first flat at 21 and was decorating it with my Dad. The little boys across the landing
came to my door for Halloween. I had nothing in the house and as I was in the middle of wallpapering the livingroom, I had two pound coins and gave them one
each as I had no other change ... the little boys were overjoyed to have such riches and not knowing my name, in best Scots patter said "Awh, thanks very
much Missus". As I closed the door my face must have been a picture, my Dad laughted for half an hour because I was so horrified that as well as now
being a home ower, I was a Missus!!!
Caroline And my shower room was an awful pink toilet and sink with a turquoise shower cubical! If that wasn't bad enough the house we moved into when we got married then had the avacado suite with daisy tiles in avacado with bamboo edging!!!!! We changed it to white! |
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Posts: 3906 (26/03/2008 23:28:37) |
i thought we were well off when we got a mortgage,but we did buy our house from the coalboard,and it cost us just under £4,000
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Posts: 6196 (26/03/2008 23:36:38) |
Our first house, a semi, was £3000, but we went mad and had loads of extras like real wooden doors, fitted wardrobes, tiling etc which pushed the price up to
£3395! Felt like a huge mortgage! We couldn't afford the detached houses nearby. They were nearly £5000!
We couldn't afford stair carpet at first, so we had a book of carpet samples and had a different colour on each tread! We thought we were "cool"!
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Posts: 2659 (27/03/2008 08:14:01) |
i thought we where well off when we moved into a council house when i was 12, we had a bathroom with an inside loo!!
we had heating upstairs!!! and 2 gardens. chell x |
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Posts: 4316 (27/03/2008 08:21:21) |
We STILL have and use a coal bunker!!!!!!Ooooo errrrrrrr missus!!
lOVE dENISEXX |
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Posts: 2216 (27/03/2008 08:29:34) |
I thought I was 'well-off' whenafter a lousey marriage, divorce and 4 years on my own I met my new husband to be.
We talked for hours sat outside in car, then he phoned me next morning from call box (didn't know at the time) and we talked for 3 1/2 hours!!! It must have cost him a fortune pushing 10p coins in! That was over 25 years ago. He's now my soul mate and best friend, Christine xxx |
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Posts: 2872 (27/03/2008 08:30:54) |
I suddenly became rich, when in 2000 i became disabled. The reason, my husband. He is worth his weight in gold.
Apart from that ditto to what everyone else has said Luv Jen |
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Posts: 15608 (27/03/2008 08:34:49) Administrator |
I'll go with what many others have said - ohhh the poshness of it all - avocado bathroom - I had died and gone to heaven - then had one with a suite called
Sunking I think it was a sort of washed out peachy colour and knew that I was a real high flyer - then (roughly) my mortgage was £14 a month I think ....
happy days eh? |
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DEEVINE |
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Posts: 4316 (27/03/2008 08:39:33) |
I thought i was rich when i came into some money(£250) and bought us a new colour portable tv !
No more renting a set for us.....ever!! Love Denisexx |
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