als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agoWhat do you want most?message-squaremessage-square90linkfedilinkarrow-up168arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up168arrow-down1message-squareWhat do you want most?als@lemmy.blahaj.zone to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months agomessage-square90linkfedilinkfile-text
Could be big picture, like a life goal. Could be what you want right this moment. What do you yearn for?
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 months agoRenting a bedroom, after rent I didn’t really spend much else, food was only like £10-15 a week, was saving £5-10k a year.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·edit-22 months ago20 years of that would pretty much buy an entire house, not just a deposit. Not sure how it’s having no life either.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoCars cost a shitload, so I didn’t get one and just walk/cycled to work. Spent that money on rounds at spoons instead. Also plenty of flats for less if you are buying on your own. Expecting an entire house on your own is probably a bit much for most people.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month ago£20k sounds like a long time ago or a complete dump. But a bit more can get something alright. Depends what you want to spend of course. I either moved to walking distance of work or only looked for jobs I could walk/cycle to.
minus-squareKorhaka@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 month agoSounds not too far off the house we got tbh. Though no obvious signs of smoking, just a musty damp smell. Replacing the 4 layers of wallpaper was fun and then plastering the patches where the plaster just about fell off the wall.
Renting a bedroom, after rent I didn’t really spend much else, food was only like £10-15 a week, was saving £5-10k a year.
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20 years of that would pretty much buy an entire house, not just a deposit. Not sure how it’s having no life either.
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Cars cost a shitload, so I didn’t get one and just walk/cycled to work. Spent that money on rounds at spoons instead.
Also plenty of flats for less if you are buying on your own. Expecting an entire house on your own is probably a bit much for most people.
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£20k sounds like a long time ago or a complete dump. But a bit more can get something alright. Depends what you want to spend of course.
I either moved to walking distance of work or only looked for jobs I could walk/cycle to.
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Sounds not too far off the house we got tbh. Though no obvious signs of smoking, just a musty damp smell. Replacing the 4 layers of wallpaper was fun and then plastering the patches where the plaster just about fell off the wall.