Gee, thanks so much for working out a budget for little old me, how kind you are .... and patronising: I've been managing my own money since I started work at the age of 15 in 1961. I'm also a trained Financial Counsellor. OK sarcasm over (did you get it or not?) your figures are ridiculous. The approximately accurate one is the food for me and my dog and that doesn't include the free stuff I get from community foodbanks.
I don't recall hearing about unicentual items before .... oh you mean INESSENTIAL, ok. That's one of the more ridiculous items. How about home contents insurance, medication, clothing, gifts to family, public transport travel?
$72 a fortnight on electricity???? I pay around $100 a month, nearly nothing for water, certainly not $30 a week on petrol (about half that) and as for putting $50 into savings every fortnight, I wish. $30 fn internet is supposed to cover phone and internet, right? I'm on the cheapest Telstra plan, which is about $80 a month for landline, all calls within Australia & rental and my mobile is prepaid $20 a month.
You know nothing about the public housing situation do you? At last count there were 38,000 people on the waiting list in Victoria and the fastest growing group of the homeless comprise older single women.
lots of us used to be able to live on the dole decades ago, people starve now and/or become homeless on Newstart.
What do you live on now per fortnight? Maybe we can swap incomes for a month and you can see how you manage, smartarse.
No worries. At least you are not starving or living under a bridge.
Home contents insurance, you are a bit entitled, I mean as you no longer talk dirty on the phone, you would expect the tax payer to hand out more, cover your costs. Anything else you want for free?
I mean you are an old lady, no super? no savings? no pension from working? Surely you would have had jobs unless you have been on a pension all your life?
The way society looks at it is that you are supposed to set yourself up when you are young.
I was talking about essential items, not wants!
Touchy, touchy. I wasn't having a go, that list is basically what I lived of when I was on the dole (except for the car stuff as I didn't have one)
I'm a smart ass hey, So you declared all this working money?
My income is a lot less then you think!
I have home line and unlimited internet for $60 a month (fiber optics)
Not bagging anyone out but I see to many whingers. I mean I pulled weeds for $40 an hour whilst being very very long term sick.
PS: I am old, but no lady. The small amount of super I accumulated is long gone years ago. Who gets a pension from working? Not in Australia anyway.
It's none of your business why I have no savings, suffice it to say that in this country single women over 60 are the fastest growing group of homeless people, because so many of us lose out after marriage breakups and/or worked in jobs with no super or before super was compulsory.
If you think I'm a whinger, just fuck off, I'm blocking you now because I don't have the energy for this crap.
What's entitled about insuring my home contents when I live in a high bushfire area? Ditto insuring my car for third party property damage, fire & theft. I regard those two outgoings as essentials for my peace of mind.
I don't regard my pension as "free", I paid taxes from the age of 15 and you're right I'm not starving or living under a bridge (yet) but could well be in the near future.
And yes, I do declare every cent of my earnings to CentreLink and if I earn over a certain amount they take half of it off my below the poverty line pension: who else gets taxed 50c in the dollar?
By the way, I haven't stopped talking dirty on the phone, I can still take calls from blokes using credit cards, it's just that most of my regular callers used to call on the now vanished 1900 lines.
Is it normal a government department is acting as moral police?
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Gee, thanks so much for working out a budget for little old me, how kind you are .... and patronising: I've been managing my own money since I started work at the age of 15 in 1961. I'm also a trained Financial Counsellor. OK sarcasm over (did you get it or not?) your figures are ridiculous. The approximately accurate one is the food for me and my dog and that doesn't include the free stuff I get from community foodbanks.
I don't recall hearing about unicentual items before .... oh you mean INESSENTIAL, ok. That's one of the more ridiculous items. How about home contents insurance, medication, clothing, gifts to family, public transport travel?
$72 a fortnight on electricity???? I pay around $100 a month, nearly nothing for water, certainly not $30 a week on petrol (about half that) and as for putting $50 into savings every fortnight, I wish. $30 fn internet is supposed to cover phone and internet, right? I'm on the cheapest Telstra plan, which is about $80 a month for landline, all calls within Australia & rental and my mobile is prepaid $20 a month.
You know nothing about the public housing situation do you? At last count there were 38,000 people on the waiting list in Victoria and the fastest growing group of the homeless comprise older single women.
lots of us used to be able to live on the dole decades ago, people starve now and/or become homeless on Newstart.
What do you live on now per fortnight? Maybe we can swap incomes for a month and you can see how you manage, smartarse.
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No worries. At least you are not starving or living under a bridge.
Home contents insurance, you are a bit entitled, I mean as you no longer talk dirty on the phone, you would expect the tax payer to hand out more, cover your costs. Anything else you want for free?
I mean you are an old lady, no super? no savings? no pension from working? Surely you would have had jobs unless you have been on a pension all your life?
The way society looks at it is that you are supposed to set yourself up when you are young.
I was talking about essential items, not wants!
Touchy, touchy. I wasn't having a go, that list is basically what I lived of when I was on the dole (except for the car stuff as I didn't have one)
I'm a smart ass hey, So you declared all this working money?
My income is a lot less then you think!
I have home line and unlimited internet for $60 a month (fiber optics)
Not bagging anyone out but I see to many whingers. I mean I pulled weeds for $40 an hour whilst being very very long term sick.
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PS: I am old, but no lady. The small amount of super I accumulated is long gone years ago. Who gets a pension from working? Not in Australia anyway.
It's none of your business why I have no savings, suffice it to say that in this country single women over 60 are the fastest growing group of homeless people, because so many of us lose out after marriage breakups and/or worked in jobs with no super or before super was compulsory.
If you think I'm a whinger, just fuck off, I'm blocking you now because I don't have the energy for this crap.
What's entitled about insuring my home contents when I live in a high bushfire area? Ditto insuring my car for third party property damage, fire & theft. I regard those two outgoings as essentials for my peace of mind.
I don't regard my pension as "free", I paid taxes from the age of 15 and you're right I'm not starving or living under a bridge (yet) but could well be in the near future.
And yes, I do declare every cent of my earnings to CentreLink and if I earn over a certain amount they take half of it off my below the poverty line pension: who else gets taxed 50c in the dollar?
By the way, I haven't stopped talking dirty on the phone, I can still take calls from blokes using credit cards, it's just that most of my regular callers used to call on the now vanished 1900 lines.