Does the royal family or the queen not have shares in this company?
That's one way to look after your loyal subjects
Does the royal family or the queen not have shares in this company?
Well of course they would - their profit is in the finance, not the sale!
I don’t know how they sleep at night, I’d be shitting myself from morn’ ‘till night.Z4M-2006 wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 7:36 am It’s just the “ modern “ way isn’t it?
Everyone wants the big tv, latest iPhone, Bmw on the drive etc etc
I have friends that have good incomes, but are always potless..
If they stopped working it got injured they would be homeless within a month with nowt but their arse and a bowl of Frosties for company .
There has always been the “ keeping up with the Joneses scenario” but nowadays it’s on a different level totally ..
Got my first mortgage in the early 80's I couldn't better 90% - it was 2.5 times my salary or 2 times joint. By the time we moved for work in the early 90's you could borrow 110% (for furniture and moving expenses) and I think it was 3 times both with some providers. No wonder house prices went up and borrowing followed! - well Magie had to find some way to let tenants afford to buy their council houses.ronk wrote: ↑Sun May 27, 2018 1:28 pm Money seems very available these days - when we got a mortgage in 1978 we were interviewed by the manager of the building society as to our ability to pay.
90% was the max we could get - I was an Eng Draughtsman and my wife a teacher both decent jobs at the time but it wasn’t a definite we got the loan.
Yup I'm the same. My old man told me "if you haven't got the money in the bank then you can't afford it" My youngest nephew drives me nuts. Don't get me wrong , I love the little bugger dearly but it's all want, want want. The latest is that he ONLY has an iPhone 6s and therefore NEEDS an iPhone 8 or whatever. For God's sake he's only 12/13. Unfortunately his parents indulge him to the extent that he will probably get one. Knowing the cost of everything but the value of nothing.buzyg wrote: ↑Mon May 28, 2018 12:37 am The peer pressure is off the scale these days, due to social media. We were furtunate and both had good jobs, when we got married, lived in rentals untill I was 29, while we saved a deposit and rode to Asda once a week for shopping. Bought my first car at 27 for cash. Like every car I have bought since.
Now people just seem to give in to the hype and spend money the don't have.