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Do they deserve any sympathy?.

margaret*e — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 09:52:46 GMT

£50,000 spent/wasted in 8 months.

Sounds a fortune but with no other money coming in not enough to last a lifetime.

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/lottery-couple-who-blew-50k-winnings-are-refused-143221503.html

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

tommy.irene — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 09:54:53 GMT

They could have used the money to buy a house..

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

1956glyn — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 09:59:04 GMT

Hiya. To be honest it looks as if the Benefits Agency are just doing their job.

They just want proof that they have actually spent all the money before they will consider another claim.

Sympathy for just blowing all the cash...no but this often happens if someone is not used to having money 😞

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

1956glyn — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 10:05:54 GMT

Hindsight is a wonderful thing.

In view of their situation..the money could have been better spent trying to start some kind of small business

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

cee-dee — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 10:18:33 GMT

There's an old saying "A fool and his money are soon parted".

Another was that if at midnight you distributed all the money in the World equally among the population, by noon 90% would be back in the hands of the rich. (There's a few versions of that).

So, no, I've no sympathy for them at all.

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

tommy.irene — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 10:31:04 GMT

I live on the saying...Needs and Wants.... Do i need it or Do i want it.. Hasent done me any harm so far

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

jd.linklater — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:23:21 GMT

No sympathy whatsoever but their predicament is understandable. They were both jobless and on benefits when they had their win so they've never had to consider things like financial responsibility and paying their own way in the world.

If we all bought what we want instead of what we need we would all be skint. You don't need a super level of intelligence to realise that.

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

merehazle — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:34:14 GMT

@1956glyn wrote:
Hiya. To be honest it looks as if the Benefits Agency are just doing their job.

They just want proof that they have actually spent all the money before they will consider another claim.

Sympathy for just blowing all the cash...no but this often happens if someone is not used to having money 😞

They seem used to (like so many others) having the taxpayers money. IMO it wasn't very tactful to have the Jeremy Kyle show UP on. But why not rub it in. Heaven knows what that show does to our image?

The faces in those pictures are restraining a smile IMO. Then that's tactful too . A case of don't say cheese whatever you do .

Interesting how at the age of 9 until 21 years one finds a job and after that goes into unemployment. As for no work as a scaffolder. This man needs to take a look at the UK. In almost all areas there is house building going on. There are construction jobs in the north east and shut down work starting soon. IMO this man doesn't want to work. Well has he said he will take ANY job? It's the ''me''/ ''now'' culture we have nowadays, the ''must haves''. right now.

There was a time when most likely the family would come up and take them in. Not so often now it seems. Because they expect these two to be given a house or a flat . And do you know what I bet they will get it .

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

fallen-archie — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:35:30 GMT

I might have a little sympathy for them if either showed a hint of genuine work ethic.

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

merehazle — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 13:40:26 GMT

Yes.....ethic!!!

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suzieseaside — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 14:44:40 GMT

Not much sympathy.

About the same amount of sympathy as they have shown self responsibility.

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dark_castle1 — Sat, 09 Jan 2016 17:04:00 GMT

No sympathy at all from me !

What they won is more than three years take home pay for me and if I won that amount, yes I would have a bit of a blowout but would have right at the start decided what I was putting away and not touched it.

If you have no money coming in surely you must budget a bit with that windfall and not spend up to £70 a day on food when some families have less than that for food a week.

They definitely sound like a workshy couple that think they should be taken care of by other hard working peoples money.

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

al**bear — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 06:51:42 GMT

@tommy.irene wrote:
They could have used the money to buy a house..

Where ?

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

tommy.irene — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 07:07:06 GMT

@al**bear wrote:
@tommy.irene wrote:
They could have used the money to buy a house..

Where ?

Just Google cheap houses Al... Search by: street, town, or postcode e.g. BT41 Min Price Max Price Bedrooms More search options No options selected Search Property For Sale, �25,000 to �50,000 Properties 1 to 5 of 13 Photograph 1, 14 Greenland Walk For sale Greenland Walk Larne 3 Bedroom Town House Offers around £49,950 Photograph 1, 14 Carrickfergus Road For sale Carrickfergus Road Larne 4 Bedroom Detached house Offers over £45,000 Photograph 1, 182 Linn Road For sale Linn Road Larne 3 Bedroom Town House Price £46,995 Photograph 1, 50 Carson Street Sale Agreed Carson Street Larne 2 Bedroom End-terrace house Offers around £39,950 Photograph 1, 2B Kylemore Gardens For sale Kylemore Gardens Larne 2 Bedroom Apartment Price £30,000

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

tommy.irene — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 07:23:06 GMT

Ebay is the place for cheap houses if look for one..,,,and I Googled Scotland and found some at £45000 and less.

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al**bear — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 11:27:06 GMT

Tommy they stay in Guernsey

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artful_dodgings — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 12:31:58 GMT

Not the first couple to blow a fortune, and they won't be the last. Viv Nicholson and her husband won £152,000 on the football pools back in 1961, and a few years down the line she was declared bankrupt. They were the forerunners of the 'spend, spend, spend' ethic, and in actual fact, that was her mission statement. That amount of cash was an absolute fortune back in the day, the equivalent of £3.5 million today.

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astrologica — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 12:46:35 GMT

Guernsey....nice! I'd like to live in Guernsey. It says they put some money away for their children.Doesn't say how many children they have. Totally irresponsible, so no sympathy.

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*.*..lola..*.* — Sun, 10 Jan 2016 15:38:41 GMT

@tommy.irene wrote:
I live on the saying...Needs and Wants.... Do i need it or Do i want it.. Hasent done me any harm so far

I live by a similar ethos, Tommy - if I can't afford to buy it outright, I go without.

I don't do credit cards or store cards or any kind of contracts and borrowing if I can possibly help it.

Re: Do they deserve any sympathy?.

margaret*e — Mon, 11 Jan 2016 09:38:25 GMT

It wouldn't have bought them a house, but it could have been a good deposit on one.