Household budget

[sir_arthur_strebe-grebling]

Sky TV, lotteries, magistrates' court fines and cigarettes!

[cee-dee]

[electric*mayhem*band]

The thing that surprises me is that it's Crawley, and not Dagenham.

[upthecreekyetagain]

So the 'newspaper' article lists just four items from a long list of potential outgoings a family might have in order to make a total non-news story.

How different the perception would be if instead of the items chosen they had selected the following instead:-

Contents Insurance

Life Insurance/Pension

Health - prescriptions, dentists, glasses

Children's pocket money/school trips

A council spokesman said the advice was 'standard debt and budgeting advice', adding: 'There are lots of things in the list that will not apply to many council tenants but the list helps them to prioritise the most important payments.'

 

[malacandran]

This list doesn't seem to provide proper support for gay men.

It doesn't include council-assisted supplies of lube.  Is this homophobic?