howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
- Posts: 62,352
#1
Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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#2
It is murder for families trying to survive these days. Both parents often working long hours just trying to keep on top of everything, just trying to keep the wolf from the door. Costs are enormous, we saw yesterday the climb in inflation figures with everything rocketing upwards. Today I believe a government Minister called train travel a rich mans toy. It used to be the transport of the masses but now only the affluent can affort to travel on a bloody train!
To meet these ever increasing demands on their pocket, mums and dads are working long hours and riddled with guilt over their kids..hence the compensation in consumerism. But the ways things are going consumer consumption is likely to fall.
Brian Dixon
- Location: Dover
- Registered: 23 Sep 2008
- Posts: 23,940
#3
quite so paulb and getting harder by the day.with higher fuel bills coming into force over the next few weeks.
#4
Having retired 6 years ago I am still trying to catch up with all the sleep I missed and recover from the hard work juggling job and kids over the 30 previous years. Unfortunately we cannot do it all and kids will have to learn to manage with less. Frankly I do not see how many people could work harder.