On 07/20/2018 06:00 AM, Dan S. MacAbre wrote:
Ophelia wrote:
"Dan S. MacAbre" wrote in message news
Ophelia wrote:
"Dan S. MacAbre" wrote in message news
p-0''0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
On Fri, 20 Jul 2018 08:22:53 +0100, Omega wrote:
On 19/07/2018 23:46, p-0''0-h the cat (coder) wrote:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-44883708
Finally... Next, money management, health and safety.
Sent from my iFurryUnderbelly.
Who did you have in mind to 'teach' money management, surely not
teachers and if parents weren't so ****ing feckless themselves,
then the
kids wouldn't need the tuition.
I was trying to remember quite how much 'tuition' I had from my
parents.
It wasn't much. My dad opened a bank account for me and it was
instilled
in me that people who bought things on credit were idiots. Save and buy
things only when you can afford them just seemed a logical argument
from
recollection. TBH I was a bit of a rebel and doing what my parents told
me to do was not a major motivation of mine. Are the maths that
difficult to understand. My misses is the same and her maths are
shocking. Using credit for frivillous stuff is just truly moronic. How
did people get to act this dumb.
I think they get addicted to whichever hormone is produced when you
buy stuff. I never bought things I couldn't pay for with cash, but
even then I noticed that everything I bought ended up in the bin
eventually, so now I hardly buy anything. I intend to keep my little
car (an '03 Fiesta) going for as long as possible; and if my clothes
don't last for at least ten years, I feel like I've been robbed. :-)
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Huh Your wee car ain't old! Mine is 1995 and husband's is 1994. ;p
That's good going! I know it's wrong, but I've sort of become attached
to mine. As long as I look after it, and replace the bits that wear
out, it keeps going.
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Our are Jap imports and in fairly good nick. We do keep them well
serviced though
Err why is it wrong???
I think it's going to make me keep it long after it has become
uneconomic to keep fixing it :-) It's a long way off that, though. I
hardly ever have to do anything to it. I'll need to replace the front
(i.e. timing side) crankshaft oil seal soon, but I don't want to do it
in hot weather.
My '86 pickup is semi-retired but the original outlay and any repairs
along the way are only a fraction of the price of a new one. Plus it was
build back when pickups were utility vehicles meant to haul stuff not
luxury vehicles.