The Retirement Thread
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Nov 2023
2:42pm, 28 Nov 2023
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Hanneke
I was 24 hours too late getting PIP for my fuel allowance which i desperately need 😩 while my wealthy ex husband gets his by default! There should be a better system, I agree with your dad Vrap...
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Nov 2023
3:21pm, 28 Nov 2023
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Pou Pou LePhoõk
In 1973, a 1st class stamp was 3.5p. Now it's £1.25. I can't think of anything else that has gone up nearly 40-fold in 40 years. (Actually 35.7 times for pedants) So I thought I'd ask you lot... |
Nov 2023
3:33pm, 28 Nov 2023
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jda
I spend a lot of my retirement income on cafes and cakes and meals out. The rest I just fritter away. |
Nov 2023
3:55pm, 28 Nov 2023
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ThorntonRunner
We also spend a lot of our retirement income on coffee and cake and meals out. At last count I have 9 loyalty cards for local cafes 
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Nov 2023
3:55pm, 28 Nov 2023
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Velociraptor
A few years ago I calculated how much eL Bee! and I would need for café expenditure when we were both retired and able to do as much cycling as we wanted. It was ... substantial. But it also assumed that we'd still want to do all-day bike rides.
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Nov 2023
3:57pm, 28 Nov 2023
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ThorntonRunner
In fact I've just got on the park and ride bus after lunch out, followed by coffee (loyalty card stamped ), followed by a talk on the recent archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral
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Nov 2023
4:02pm, 28 Nov 2023
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Sigh
In 1973, a 1st class stamp was 3.5p. Now it's £1.25. I can't think of anything else that has gone up nearly 40-fold in 40 years. (Actually 35.7 times for pedants) So I thought I'd ask you lot... A Mars bar was 6p in 1973, and today they are 80p (apparently). But that's without factoring the reduction in size. |
Nov 2023
4:03pm, 28 Nov 2023
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TROSaracen
A Wagon Wheel was 50 yards across and fed a family of four for 3 weeks when I was young.
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Nov 2023
4:16pm, 28 Nov 2023
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HellsBells
In fact I've just got on the park and ride bus after lunch out, followed by coffee (loyalty card stamped ), followed by a talk on the recent archaeological excavations at Leicester Cathedral Who was speaking ThorntonRunner? DiL worked on the dig all the way through Middle Boy was manning a stand at the Reconstructing Leicester event on Saturday
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Nov 2023
4:17pm, 28 Nov 2023
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