China Increases Typhoon Aid to Philippines

[stevewool]

so your parents had £0 money steve ? no benefits or they didn't work ? , i dont know about expenses in the past, but if we talk about today in terms of money

say your working, after tax would you say £800 for a single person is poverty ?

being the youngest in the household Joe, i did not know what was coming into the house, dad was working, free school meals and a new school uniform is all i can remember, like i have said you cut your cloth according to how you live

[joebloggs]

joe i have no figure for what you are looking for, but i know myself what ever figure i had to live on it would have to do, yes there may be lots of going without but you will survive you just have to, remember poverty to one s not having a hundred quid in your pocket, yet to others its to have nothing in your pocket, so tell us what your figure is or what you would feel comfortable with

being the youngest in the household Joe, i did not know what was coming into the house' dad was working, free school meals and a new school uniform is all i can remember, like i have said you cut your cloth according to how you live

well my mom struggled with 3 kids when she became a widow anyway ..

everyone has to pay certain bills, whether your on benefits or not, if you have £0 left at the end of the month or are getting in debt then that's no way to live, just surviving is that poverty ? isn't that what many in the phils do, just survive ?

roughly rent for a 1 bedroom flat near me i would say minimum of £400 a month
electric\gas £100 a month, water £30, poll tax £100 , food £7 a day = £200 a month. I'll not include luxuries like a TV license or internet, a car, insurance, clothes etc,

£830 a month your struggling

[stevewool]

roughly rent for a 1 bedroom flat near me i would say minimum of £400 a month
electric\gas £100 a month, water £30, poll tax £100 , food £7 a day = £200 a month. I'll not include luxuries like a TV license or internet, a car, insurance, clothes etc,

£830 a month your struggling

Indeed Joe, so something has to give, and you then turn the heating off, and maybe that may help, i must say most on this forum has some time in their life struggled to pay their way whether its a few months or years , but you still get by one way or another,

In fact i can remember the jumble sale too when we was kids, thats where we got a new toy and maybe a crap jumper that you had to grow into and that took a year, bloody baggy things and why did they always itch too