Could you live on £53 a week

[tommy.irene]

£53 a week? I can survive on ONE POUND A DAY says cash-strapped teacherKath Kelly ate at free buffets and picked fruit from bushes 
Teacher started challenge as she bet her friends she could live on small sumIain Duncan Smith was challenged to live on £53-a-week on Radio 4

A teacher who survived for a year on just £1 a day has backed Iain Duncan Smith and said 'anybody' can live on a daily budget of £7.

Frugal Kath Kelly, 51, ate at free buffets, shopped at church jumble sales and scrounged leftovers from grocery stores and restaurants.

She picked fruit from bushes and trees and collected a staggering £117 in loose change dropped in the street - a third of her annual budget.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2304042/Iain-Duncan-Smith-right-You-CAN-live-just-53-week-sa...

[ruthventowncrier]

Myself and my wife are unemployed and struggling on what the state give us. I agree that you should have to think about what you buy and have to budget what you get. We are unemployed through no fault of our own and have realised what a struggle it is and are desperate to get back into work. Now the Bedroom tax has taken another £25.00 a week from what we had so it is even more of a struggle! Are there any employers on this thread who could post jobs that they have? And no you cant survive on £53.00 a week. Thats why a lot of people Ebay!!!!!

[upthecreekyetagain]

That like most of your previous posts makes little sense and shows a total misunderstanding

There are numbers both weighted and unweighted given in the pdf document

LMS again;-)

Now I know this is difficult but let me try to explain - there is no way of knowing how many of the total sample are in any particular income group - over 25% of the population sample didn't answer that particular question - so how you think you could know by accessing the raw data lord only knows.

Still never mind - if all else fails you can always attack the poster rather than the post 😉

[al**bear]

Kath kelly made a fair bit of money from the Book she wrote about her exploits.

Seems what she did was just about begging,  sorry can someone point Me to the nearest FREE buffet, because I've never seen one. I'd like to know how many She attended.

Just what the Mail loves a self promoting media junkie on a cause.

All this searching to survive, when would she find time to search for Work ?

And a lot of the posts in that link show that People who say they can survive, have a totally false impression on what People on Benefits get given or paid for them, over and above the £53.

[al**bear]

I wonder if Kath Kelly would still be buying all those 'Own brand' products, after the latest  'quality scares'

I say Neigh

[kiss*my*pixel]

I wonder if Kath Kelly would still be buying all those 'Own brand' products, after the latest  'quality scares'

I say Neigh

 :^O

[babyface21-uk]

£53 a week....?

I couldn't live on £53 a day...

:^O:^O:^O

As for Kath Kelly living on £1 in 2008, she probably could. With inflation roaring and bills up by some 18%, I bet she'd have to increase that to at least £2.50-£3 today...............

[salfordmarinade]

Now I know this is difficult but let me try to explain - there is no way of knowing how many of the total sample are in any particular income group - over 25% of the population sample didn't answer that particular question - so how you think you could know by accessing the raw data lord only knows.

Let me educate you. The comments I made were in relation to the 'bar chart' and your diversion to obscure the lazy errors. The numbers are given in the underlying data, if they weren't how would you have arrived at 25% didn't respond to questions on which income bracket they belonged to? Some don't respond to every question.That's quite normal, unlike some.

But this whole diversion isn't really about that is it, it's about diversion and getting your own way.

😉

[al**bear]

I suppose IDS will be picking up his £3000 for turning up for a single Day in Parliament yesterday;-)

[salfordmarinade]

:^O

You must live on this board 24/7 upthe:^O

I see your political associate has done a bullying thread for you.....awwww

howid people who disagree  )))(((

Educate yourself upthe, rather than spamming boards 24/7 insisting despite the evidence, you must be right...as always even when badly wrong.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Spamming - as valid a claim as the other one you've just made that is a total distortion apart from being untrue 😉

"Nice to see our MPs all picked up £3000 each to turn up at Parliament yesterday"

[salfordmarinade]

Quite valid actually. Meaning in this case, an insistence despite all evidence, that one is correct, and being willing to post endlessly, despite poor content. to try to filibuster a way out.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Just checked - in the last 30 days I made 130 posts, Al made 111

:^O

Quite valid actually. Meaning in this case, an insistence despite all evidence, that one is correct, and being willing to post endlessly, despite poor content. to try to filibuster a way out.

Well you'd know :^O

[salfordmarinade]

And what has any other poster got to do with it???

It's about content, and intent.

Limited in your ripostes as usual.

LMS again;-)

[upthecreekyetagain]

Was trying to reply to two different posters in the one post to avoid accusations of spamming - you have to be careful you know :^O

OMG - I've made another post - must be approaching an average of 5 a day 😮

[salfordmarinade]

Well you'd know

By your own criteria then, as I am on about 20 over the same period. The equivalent of just over half a post a day.

😉

Still, gives some something to moan about on other threads I see.;-)

[margaret*e]

{And what has any other poster got to do with it???}

I was wondering what it had to do with any poster how often another posts?:|.

Back to the subect, as far as I can make ot  these people aren't talking about 'living' on £53.

They mean only buying food out of it with everything else paid for which doesn't happen in real life.

[upthecreekyetagain]

Well you'd know

By your own criteria then, as I am on about 20 over the same period. The equivalent of just over half a post a day.

😉

Still, gives some something to moan about on other threads I see.;-)

Ah but of those how many have been in response to my posts and how many have actually contained constructive comment 😉

[salfordmarinade]

I see that hit home 😉

That is a value judgement. How many of yours do you think are for lets call it, self gratification?

Technically you are simply wrong, so the value here is fairly high in rectifying that;-)

[upthecreekyetagain]

Very constructive 😉

[tommy.irene]

On April 5th i tried to live on £53.00 for a week ..for food only and i did it by buying lots of things for €1......€1cornflakes for breakfast 7 days and toast i still have some left..biscuits for 10am tea..25cents a packet 4packets i still have some left..Lunch was a €1 salad with €1 a packet  8 slices of cookedham ..I have eggs at 12 for €1..milk at 35 cents a litre..the point is i have €10 over..today and still have food in the fridge..so it does work out over 7 days