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Old 24-10-2008, 10:57 AM
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Originally Posted by Porkie
God yes! They reckon 60,000 city jobs could be going mate!!!

60 fooking thousand!

More banking rather than broking though. I work in a very small team as well. We are pretty lean and mean already so fingers crossed I may be ok....
Tesco are going to have a lot of shelf stackers
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Originally Posted by Porkie
Excellent plan!

apart from getting ANOTHER wank money pit at the end
That's not fair calling his wife a money pit
Old 24-10-2008, 11:04 AM
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Originally Posted by Tony S Mannock
That's not fair calling his wife a money pit
I haven't proposed to my missus. YET

She earns more than me; and she regularly reminds me. Cow

A single Sergeant living in Germany does allright too.

She's very switched on with money and property. She'll kick my arse in the right direction
Old 24-10-2008, 11:07 AM
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im hoping i havent overstretched myself on this lastest house, as i had to put down a whopping 25%, which means all my spare money has gone, as the rest is tied up in the current house, so if loom work goes quiet im stuffed
Old 24-10-2008, 11:11 AM
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Originally Posted by Cliff S1
I haven't proposed to my missus. YET

She earns more than me; and she regularly reminds me. Cow

A single Sergeant living in Germany does allright too.

She's very switched on with money and property. She'll kick my arse in the right direction

they are all very switched on when it comes to money and a divorce
you only need to start to worry when she wants to marry you,you can't plot a divorce without first being married
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Originally Posted by Tony S Mannock
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they are all very switched on when it comes to money and a divorce
you only need to start to worry when she wants to marry you,you can't plot a divorce without first being married
From what I read on here Tony; you're the man of experience.

I'll make sure I drop you a pm when the time comes
Old 24-10-2008, 11:35 AM
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Does anyone know how this is going to effect the Oil and Gas industry? Contractors working on big power plants etc?
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Originally Posted by Cliff S1
From what I read on here Tony; you're the man of experience.

I'll make sure I drop you a pm when the time comes
don't bother dropping me a pm just drop her off a cliff
Old 24-10-2008, 11:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Tony S Mannock
don't bother dropping me a pm just drop her off a cliff
Sorry I didn't realise I was hitting such a touchy subject Tony
Old 24-10-2008, 12:33 PM
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Originally Posted by Cliff S1
Cheers Lee,
I decided it was about time I stopped pouring my money into a mk3 escort and made the money work for me. 11 years done and 11 years left to do in the army.

I have seen far too many of my bosses get out after 22 years and have absolutely no property or investment.

They have to use their gratuity and pension money each month to pay for something they should have sorted out ages ago.

It all comes down to the 7 P's

P roper
P rior
P lanning
P revents
P iss
P oor
P erformance

Property will be bought to rent out. Then save and buy another one.

Then I think I might treat myself to an Escort RS Cosworth in a couple of years

mr woodcock?
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Originally Posted by dojj
mr woodcock?
We've been saying it for years. Used to be a phrase on my bosses door; along with.

"A lack of poor planning doesn't create an emergency on my part"

How appropriate for most of the regiments that I have served with
Old 24-10-2008, 12:53 PM
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Wow, it's properly going to shit!

Futures trades have been limited. Has the Dow even opened yet or will it open at all?
Old 24-10-2008, 12:55 PM
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Dow opens at 2.30 mate...

unlike the Russian stock market which they have shut until Oct 28th!
Old 24-10-2008, 01:24 PM
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I'm so happy i'm not rich, lol, lost around 25% of my savings already, wich luckely enough doesn't amount to much, lol.
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christ,

from the title i thought doug sterling was doing a bunjee jump: cry:
Old 24-10-2008, 04:31 PM
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despite all this, we still have it good in this country compared to many other places in the world. you won't starve or die of AIDS anytime soon or have your livelihood and maybe family wiped out by a natural disaster, so it could be a lot worse. and if times get really hard for you lee, i'll buy your beetle of you for a bargain price so that you can put food on the table for a couple of months
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And here is little old me tucked up in Florida being paid in dollars....... such is life,

Just saving for a new house now

Mike
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