Re If People Would Learn To Cook

[jennyjoan]

There are a few posts with their opinions on the matter and one of them is how a person is not too well off these days.

How much money does one need to have to be well off - just your opinion.

[Redhelen72]

How long is a piece of string
Every answer is going to be different according to your circumstances and expectations

[jennyjoan]

right - I guess the answer could be - if one is comfortable, able to pay their bills without hardship

[Redhelen72]

My MIL owns her own house outright, has investments, a pension and money to spend and still says she is in poverty!

Everyone views it differently

[THECORBYLOON]

For a figure to be meaningful, all those responding would have to be in the same or similar circumstances.

[bednobs]

i think most people's definition is "people who are richer than me"

[jennyjoan]

then Red - you will be rich some day LOL

[THECORBYLOON]

"able to pay their bills without hardship" again, hardship means different things to different folk, three holidays a year in the Caribbean instead of four for example.

[Ken4155]

'Comfortable' is a better description than 'well off', JJ, imho. I consider myself to be comfortable enough to be able to meet my dues and demands, to feed and clothe myself and still maintain my main hobby - gambling. I actually have more in my bank account now than at any other point in my life.

[Redhelen72]

JJ that means my MIL would be dead and my husband heartbroken - whilst I dislike the lady I would not wish that on my husband and certainly don't find it funny

[jennyjoan]

oh ok - just remembering your posts how much you do not like the lady

[youngmafbog]

Well having to pay well over a thousand in income tax a week I dont feel well off. I dont think its possible to be well off if you go to work to get your money these days. You need a private income.

[naomi24]

‘Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds nought and six, result misery.”

Mr Micawber, David Copperfield

[maggiebee]

Friend of a friend paid to go privately to have a hip replacement. This has left her "poor" and she will have to cut back on her holidays this year. Not my idea of poor.

[dave50]

If you have just enough enough money to pay all your bills but nothing left for pleasure, that's not living, it's just existing.

[pastafreak]

13:03...you have no idea. Maybe start a seperate thread for "well off but struggling". I doubt many on here even earn 1,000 per week.

[burlyshirley]

None of this has hit me yet because I won't get my electricity and gas bills until next month, but I'm not looking forward to them ! I've not noticed food prices rising, apart from one or two things and again I'm not bothered - yet ! I'll probably be ok because when my beloved parents died, they left me and my brother quite well off and I've always been a good saver too, plus I have a works pension as well as the state pension, but none of that means that I don't feel sorry for people that will struggle, because I do. I know they will be out there and my heart bleeds for them. I put food in the trolleys supermarkets leave out for people in need and stuff like that, but is it enough ?