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  • I'm on 25. I'm fecking terrified of this mortgage and making payments forever.
    It's just mental and yes I pay rent blah blah but still, I am having real commitment issues here.
    I've lost most of my savings by sinking it into the deposit so my safety net which I have relied on forever is like a tea strainer. Fear, massive fear.

  • I'm scared of having kids

  • Then you have kids and it returns with a vengeance.

    Ah. Nursery fees, but you do get used to them, only for those to go when they go to school but the fear is replaced by:
    a) nursery was 8-6, school is only 9-3, that's going to be costly and then,
    b) nursery was 51 weeks a year, school is only 39. I don't get 13 weeks holiday a year...

    Then they start needing stuff like bikes. And they grow out of stuff way too quick; shoes, clothes, bikes, beds, bedrooms, gardens, houses, ...

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