Quote Originally Posted by Maurice Swan View Post
Maybe they ought to do without takeaways...mobile phones....netflix etc etc....we all had pressures then......aka I could not afford a proper bed....I filled my bath with hot water from the kettle because the HW tank was broken and I could not afford to fix it.........get real....
As I said in another thread when you talked about netflix.

Everyone used to get a daily newspaper. It wasn't a luxury, it was the norm. If you want a daily newspaper now, the Sun for example is a quid a pop. Even if you don't buy it on weekends, that's 20 quid a month and double what Netflix costs.

That's just one example of many to show how much more expensive life is today than in your day. We could do bread and milk, electricity, it's all going to be the same.