Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

Did some volunteering and at the sorting place it was very much sorting items in to grades, lowest stuff got sent off to Africa, the best stuff got sent to shops in affluent areas where they could charge a premium but it wasn't one of the national ones

No, it's 'meringue'. Yet to test its pouring qualities; quite like the element of danger now involved.

fed whips

No they just sell it online

Mrs GB did some volunteering at one many years ago. She was horrified at the fact that if one shop was overrun with stuff they'd just pass the bags off to one of the other charity shops nearby.

So if you donated a bunch of stuff to a charity you really cared about, say, Cancer Research, it could easily end up at the Minorly Wounded Axolotl Sanctuary a few doors down.

Better than landfill surely

on the face of it, free entry is a Good Thing

I think the days of getting a bargain in Oxfam are long gone. Their record pricing is clearly "we read discogs now you prick, we know what you should be paying".

white T-shirts ... wear with a suit... sub £100

New credit card

the biggest tragedy is that bike24 dont ship to uk anymore

No tragedy is greater

I went to boarding school

ours are just a little bit bigger and considerably more expensive.

when I bought my first house in 1999

Bragging about being old isn't very Golf Club. Houses were 3 for a quid back in 1999

£29,950

5% down. £200-odd a month mortgage.

First house though. Who knows how many they have now.

It’s me. I said it. I have no houses now.

my house has an ensuite

Every 2-bed 60m² flood-plain new build has an ensuite these days

My car is an unnecesary luxury.

When our nursery hiked their fees before the parents kicked off, I worked out what the cost for our friends with 3 kids full time was grossed up.

Iirc you'd need to be earning >£86k to cover the bill.

To be fair having kids is a pretty unnecessary golf club luxury.

This the gist of was my out of context leg-pull.

At the moment you need to earn £50k gross to get a childminder £15k net

A privilege maybe, but they don't feel very luxurious.