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I may have mentioned once before on the forum that I occasionally volunteer at the local community centre trying to help people who have the financial acumen of a goldfish.
There is a reason why people are in these low socio economic groups, their ability to manage money is nonexistent, the concept of saving is non existent, and it is very difficult to get them to change their ways,
Pointing out that for the cost of what they pay in taking out the family to lunch at a food court, they could make lunches at home for a week, you can see their eyes glaze over.
Families where there is no working breadwinner will say they don't have time to cook, and the kids don't like what they cook anyway.
I had one woman saying she needed subsidised(read free) childcare so she could nick down to the RSL to play the pokies in peace once a week.
It does my head in sometimes.
Generations of low expectancy are very hard to break.
mick

<blockquote data-quote="mullokintyre" data-source="post: 1230964" data-attributes="member: 82018">I may have mentioned once before on the forum that I occasionally volunteer at the local community centre trying to help people who have the financial acumen of a goldfish. There is a reason why people are in these low socio economic groups, their ability to manage money is nonexistent, the concept of saving is non existent,&nbsp; and it is very difficult to get them to change their ways,Pointing out that for the cost of what they pay in taking out the family to lunch at a food court, they could make lunches at home for a week, you can see their eyes glaze over.Families where there is no working breadwinner will say they don&#039;t have time to cook, and the kids don&#039;t like what they cook anyway.I had one woman saying she needed subsidised(read free) childcare so she could nick down to the RSL to play&nbsp; the pokies in peace once a week.It does my head in sometimes.Generations of low expectancy are very hard to break.mick</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mullokintyre, post: 1230964, member: 82018"] I may have mentioned once before on the forum that I occasionally volunteer at the local community centre trying to help people who have the financial acumen of a goldfish. There is a reason why people are in these low socio economic groups, their ability to manage money is nonexistent, the concept of saving is non existent, and it is very difficult to get them to change their ways, Pointing out that for the cost of what they pay in taking out the family to lunch at a food court, they could make lunches at home for a week, you can see their eyes glaze over. Families where there is no working breadwinner will say they don't have time to cook, and the kids don't like what they cook anyway. I had one woman saying she needed subsidised(read free) childcare so she could nick down to the RSL to play the pokies in peace once a week. It does my head in sometimes. Generations of low expectancy are very hard to break. mick [/QUOTE]

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