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Nothing grumpy about having a different set of priorities - I adore our life - its so much better than wage slavery 
Indeed I'm not the one starting a thread to bemoan other peoples choices on how to spend their money.
I suspect that needing a holiday equates to needing to get away from normal life. I suspect that getting a life that one enjoys every day is far better than escaping from an unpleasant life for 4% of the year
I also suspect the monthly Sky TV subscription would be far better spent on trips to the library - that would be both cheaper and far more "broadening of the horizons"
Indeed I'm not the one starting a thread to bemoan other peoples choices on how to spend their money.I suspect that needing a holiday equates to needing to get away from normal life. I suspect that getting a life that one enjoys every day is far better than escaping from an unpleasant life for 4% of the year
I also suspect the monthly Sky TV subscription would be far better spent on trips to the library - that would be both cheaper and far more "broadening of the horizons"
“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
Groucho Marx.
Groucho Marx.
Nothing grumpy about having a different set of priorities - I adore our life - its so much better than wage slavery
I suspect that needing a holiday equates to needing to get away from normal life. I suspect that getting a life that one enjoys every day is far better than escaping from an unpleasant life for 4% of the year
I also suspect the monthly Sky TV subscription would be far better spent on trips to the library - that would be both cheaper and far more "broadening of the horizons"
Blimey Red. I was just pulling your leg.
Me too
The one thing I have learned in my simple life is a sense of humour - and one of tolerance of others desires For example I think people who pay a fortune to roar round and round in circles on a race track are completely cracked! However being nice to someone who does this professionally means his lady wife deliver me unlimited manure for nothing.
She (and he) probably consider me equally cracked wanting what is, to them, a waste product. Indeed I do pest control work for them to help them, and they pay me in poo!
The one thing I have learned in my simple life is a sense of humour - and one of tolerance of others desires
For example I think people who pay a fortune to roar round and round in circles on a race track are completely cracked! However being nice to someone who does this professionally means his lady wife deliver me unlimited manure for nothing.She (and he) probably consider me equally cracked wanting what is, to them, a waste product. Indeed I do pest control work for them to help them, and they pay me in poo!
Me too
The one thing I have learned in my simple life is a sense of humour - and one of tolerance of others desires
She (and he) probably consider me equally cracked wanting what is, to them, a waste product. Indeed I do pest control work for them to help them, and they pay me in poo!
Your "simple life" is envied by a lot of folks on here myself included. And despite what you may or may not think it's not something we can all hope to achieve. I suspect your setup costs were significant. So holidays, tv programmes, books. Yeah we grab an escape from being a wage slave where we can. You're lucky. We know it.
Still can't justify £50 on a fork. It's not even bling. Maybe if it was of the variety you keep in the shed.
We afforded it by NOT having holidays and SKY TV
If you add up what many people spend on holidays and entertainment over twenty years and throw in the odd new car, it pays for a place like ours in the back of beyond in a swamp.
Not that I criticise what others choose to do. It just puzzles me when they describe us as "lucky". We just did without the fripperies for a couple of decades - anyone can do that if it really matters to them.
As for the fork - its not my choice, but, as I say, its no sillier than foreign holidays in my book
I have a light my fire titanium spork, a bit of an indulgence I suppose but in the long run more economical than all the plastic ones breaking, however it still cost me well under twenty quid and is probably a lot more functional than this piece of junk from Heinnie's
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