Why do people save ,save ,save.......

Why do people spend their hard earned money on bundles of mindless crap that doesnt really add a thing to their lives.

Money is the only thing that counts. Nothing else can insulate you from other
people and their overpowering will.

But surely it's better than saving fortunes for somebody else to blow on  luxuries .

I know a lad who blew 200k that was left to him by his dad .... He blew it in 5years .. Gambling , drugs , etc etc .. His dad worked 7 days a week for donkey's years ...

I just don't get it

He was lucky to die with hismoney intact, but make sure the government dosn't get it. Better to burn it than that

it's simple your mate is a kn0bhead

So why didn't his dad enjoy the better stuff in life ?????

Worked all his life for what ????.

Surely it wasn't the money cos he was loaded ...

So so sad ....

I`m leaving everything to dog trust.

.... they are all comfortably well off and have good jobs

..... don`t want them ending up like the waster mentioned above

Why do you assume just because he didnt spend his money he didnt enjoy his life.

Dont make the mistake that most in this country make and believe you need to spend fortunes on consumer crap to enjoy your life.

he saved all his life ... His house was bog standard and only had a drink every christmas . His life was all about 50 years in a shyte local factory ....

Pathetic

So having a house bigger than  you need is enjoying your life to the full?

Why do you sound so bitter anyway about what other people do?

he's skinto

this thread not going as OP wanted

I ain't bitter at all .. It's just very silly to save everything and lead a very mundane life ..... Hence .. Working every single weekend esp when they've got kids ..

Very very poor standards of life .

The simple things in life are FREE.

Money corrupts.

.... although I get Brian`s drift and agree.

Being tight is a disease . It's like cancer that gets into your bones .

I know of nobody who is a miser that is a nice person ..... it takes over your soul and Rids you of all good .

... the more money people get, the more they want. Never satisfied. Becomes an obsession with them and they turn int miserable b*******.

Very few people are misers though. Plenty live carefully and  sensibly within their means.


The real disease in UK is greed and the need to spend money on things nobody really needs and then ending up with wonga and the like. Thats not really  a happy life.

some of us dont have owt to spend it on.

cant be arsed to travel, dont wanna eat a load of junk for health reasons. never bothered learning to drive and dont want to. not interested in snorting sugar out a load of floozies bum cracks. what mah gonna spend it on??

dvds and gambling lol.

Nothing wrong with that mate as long as you are happy.

thats why ive got a fairly pointless collection of hundreds, if not thousands of blu rays and dvds. and 3 computers. and a ps3 i hardly ever play games on. bugger all else to spend my money on. if ya dont spend owt, no point earning it. i save most of my money, but i feel like i have to buy summat. theres nowt worth spending it on, so i buy stuff i dont really need. isnt that why most people get pizza and takeaways?

thats why everybodys fat, nowt to spend ya money on so ya spend it on booze and junk food. or shoes, clothes, watches, jewellery or cars that dont do owt different than the cheap ones do.

My grandad had his own polo pony as a young adult and turned down the offer to join Arsenal because football was not for gentlemen.  He died in a small 2 up 2 down terrace.  Personally, I wish he had been a miser

is anybody happy?

were all just waiting to die. finding ingenious ways to waste time until we get there.

on the plus side, ive just done a right good trump!

Just remembered he also asked my dad, so his son, for money and asked for some valuable object he had given him as a present back, denying he had ever given it to him.  Other than that he was actually a top bloke and very brave man.  Just think he mixed in very wealthy circles and blew all his money just keeping up.  Recall one story that my dad told me.  They used to live in Canford Cliffs, when he had money, and he used to play golf with the father of one of my dad's school friends.  One day the bloke invited him onto his mega yacht that had just sailed into the harbour.  Turned out he was one of the richest men in South Africa and a German South African to boot, who had changed his name.  Apparently that didn't go down to well.

My dad's godfather was also the son of the chairman of the All England Club, Wimbledon, who was also his great uncle through marriage, so that gives you an idea of the sort of circles and money they were mixing in.

I'm with Dotchinite. It's the small things ln life which people realise too late were the big things. What is sad to see are the people who put off living during their working years so they can do this or that in retirement. Some do and good luck to them but some don't make it that far and many are too knackered when they get there to do the things they promised themselves they would do. If you can, do it now.

One of my in laws are millionaires and they spend spend spend living it up, but they hate each other, well she hates him, and are miserable as sin, and he's self obsessed with no friends so he puts up with her.  Their kids have a fortune spent on them, one of them is suicidal, and their live revolves around saying how wonderful they all are on Facebook, but deep down they are completely dysfunctional.

^ Won't end well

I have 898 facebook friends...dont know any of them

Good call Brian we are here for a  holiday and we should make the most of every day were here  maybe posting on a gambling forum will give a biased opinion but  we are what we are and if we've had a good day it's a good feeling to be able to treat your loved ones don't you agree

Anyone who doesn't know what to do with his money needs to get a wife. the problem will resolve itself almost immediately.

When you get older, you will discover why you need money

No job, our income drops considerably

Foinavon  • July 27, 2014 11:02 PM BST 
Anyone who doesn't know what to do with his money needs to get a wife. the problem will resolve itself almost immediately.



I have got that problem I aint even married to her, or even live with her
she sees me like some infinite money pit, still she is ok for all that

Once they get their feet under the table you're done for.

same as the Black Lab

Maybe it's because retirement is difficult to plan for since you don't know how long you might live. So people err on the safe side and save enough to keep them until they are 100.

Next week I'm buying a racehorse with some friends and soon plan to spend ca. 8K on some symfony lenses for my eyes.

^^ Thinly veiled I'm Billy Big Spuds.

Gery, I Never saw you as a "Sugar Daddy"