Decisions...decisions.

[saxonaxe]

Still feeling slightly light headed with grateful gratitude to HM Government, having just been informed I am to receive £1.27p weekly pension increase, I am debating taking advantage of the impending change in the law relating to the purchase of knives.
It is apparent that many companies whose business has revolved around the sale of knives are branching out into other lines of merchandise...at bargain prices, and there lies my problem.

I am sorely tempted by some plastic coat hangers at the knock down price of just £15 each...I had hoped they would be a tactical camo colour, or at least subdued green or even black for 'Night Operatives,' but alas they are bright orange, hardly Bush Crafty I think...

So, what should I do? An orange plastic coat hanger for £15 or an aluminium spoon/fork... an 'essential trail tool' for just £17.....?
Wait !! It's ok |Folks, stand down on the above, I've just spotted a 4 x 1.5 cm Titanium key chain link for just £32.95p..That's it, I'll start saving,...so £32.95 divided by £1.27p ...Ha! mine by Samhain..

 

[Toddy]

52 x £1.27, by your birthday next year will yield you £66.04.

That's a new jacket, or waterproof trousers, or decent wellies, or a couple of steak dinners + wine. A new knife, or a saw, or a whittlin' jack....or a pouch full of coin to spend at the Reenactor's Fayre

M

 

[Broch]

Or quite a decent bottle of Malt!


(edited typo )

 

[Toddy]

Or quite a descent bottle of Malt!

Good point !

 

[Woody girl]

It's not even the price of a cup of tea in a cafe. Aren't the government generous! ?

 

[saxonaxe]

£66.04p..I wonder if I ask nicely if they will give me a lump sump?
Not being an alcohol fan I could add a few pennies and get 19x 240 bag boxes of Tea bags......'Tis nice to be suddenly wealthy..

 

[Woody girl]

If your rates have gone up as much as mine , plus the rise in electricity, and TV licence, how much are you going to have left for the teabags?

 

[Erbswurst]

You could buy new laces and safe a lot of money for the bus tickets.

Or you buy a stamp and write them your opinion.

 

[Woody girl]

Stamps have just gone up in price too.. I don't know about shoe laces tho. Wouldn't be surprised.
Teabags are a good investment though everyone needs a cuppa... especially when you get the 'leccy bill. Helps with the shock.

 

[Jackroadkill]

It's nice to know that after working (and contributing) all your life that the dear old government value you so much, eh?

 

[saxonaxe]

£1.27... I thought it was a joke at first....Members of Parliament recently got £1300 per Annum increase, so I suppose there wasn't much left in the kitty.

 

[Jackroadkill]

£1.27... I thought it was a joke at first....Members of Parliament recently got £1300 per Annum increase, so I suppose there wasn't much left in the kitty.

At least Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask!

 

[Woody girl]

Just keep em ticking over till the old clogs go pop and then charge them several thousand pounds for the privilege of dying.
Keep your chins up , they can't last much longer the revolution is comming... if we can be bothered!
Meanwhile keep calm and drink tea..if you can afford it!!

 

[saxonaxe]

No complaints here, I'm a happy, contented old geezer really, £1.27 just struck me as really funny. I never forget there are other wrinklies a lot worse off than me.

 

[Woody girl]

Yeah guess we should count our blessings. There is such a lot worse going on in the world. Sometimes it gets to me, and actually I find that raise in a pensioners income an insult to them after learning how much of a raise the gov have given themselves.
Just feeling ultra grumpy and cynical today after all my bills landed on the mat at once this morning!
Ah well.. just off for another cuppa.

 

[Tengu]

Yes, think of what this farce with Honda is doing to my property value.

I spent my degenerate youth in frugality to buy that.

 

[Nice65]

Or quite a decent bottle of Malt!

I think that’s probably the best way to look at it to be honest Broch. Clearly a man whose glass is half full

 

[Nice65]

No complaints here, I'm a happy, contented old geezer really, £1.27 just struck me as really funny. I never forget there are other wrinklies a lot worse off than me.

Mate, we got a council tax refund of 7 pence a while ago, I think I kept the letter somewhere. It had us in stitches laughing, all the official calculations and admittance to an oversight on their part.

 

[Erbswurst]

7 Pence?
Very funny!

 

[saxonaxe]

Mate, we got a council tax refund of 7 pence a while ago, I think I kept the letter somewhere. It had us in stitches laughing, all the official calculations and admittance to an oversight on their part.

That's a classic...Worth keeping, just for proof that a Council actually admitted making a mistake...