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10th May 2018BarbaraB788 commented on:
Do Millennials deserve £10K for doing nothing?How nice to know I am not alone I do not think the millenniums deserve a £10,000 handout. As many on here have said we didn't get handouts. I married my husband in 1967 we where both 18. My husband was an apprentice HGV mechanic. His wage was very low. We lived with my in-laws for six months and then six months with my father. Managed to find a house to rent and moved in with our new baby. The kitchen was a room with an old chair in the corner which had a sink sat on it. A cold water tap above that. The back door had a two inch gap under it. We had furniture donated by family (cast offs) but we where so happy to have our own home. We saved hard and manage to but a sink unit. Had gone into debt for a gas cooker. After a while we had saved enough to to buy a wall cupboard. We needed one to put our food where the mice couldn't get at it. Our windows where single glazed and our source of heat was a coal fire. We tried to light the fire every day but sometimes couldn't afford coal. An outside toilet down the yard. We often went hungry but the priority was to keep a roof over our heads. After a couple of years and another baby we moved to an overspill town into a new house ! It was paradise. We had hot and cold water, till single glazing and warm air central heating downstairs. A bathroom and a downstairs toilet. The floor was tiled right through so no need to worry about carpet. Upstairs we had bare floor boards. After renting for three years we where able to buy the house. We lived their for 18 yrs. during this time my husband set up his own vehicle repair business with a friend. A week later my son was born. My husband worked seven days a week which wasn't easy for me. He came home each day ate our evening meal and then it would be bed time for the children. Life was very hard but things did get easier. I knitted clothes for my children and went to jumble sales. I still buy most of my clothes on eBay I love a bargain.