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Some people have been hit hard by the economic effects of covid, including opportunists, so please spare a thought before you highlight how blessed you are, a lot of people don& #39;t know if they will make it to the next pay day with food in their homes.
Having a job and getting a salary or a business with and income almost gives me survivor& #39;s remorse when I encounter someone who just struggling to look after their family.
We can always argue about kids and spouses who don& #39;t work but then we are also just highlighting what jerks we are. So many people asking for help, some opportunists therein. And it gets to me. My wife asked me why it got to me so much
When I was about 8, my father decided to open a business, Indian man, opening a shop. Nothing breaking news about that. The shop was small and did a tidy bit of business, but no one knew we were there after 5pm. So my father decided to take out a business loan.
The new signage and flashing lights helped. But then he over expanded. He wanted to cater for all the people who walked in who wanted everything from fishing tackle to bait. So we went from a fish and chips shop to small tins of zambuck next to the fishing hooks.
18 months later, we closed the shop, took the remaining stock and tried to sell it to recover costs. Some of my father& #39;s "friends" bought the stock but only less than the actual cost. Lesson number 1 - there are no friends in business.
By my 10th birthday we on a tight budget. None of this new clothes every week that we had been accustomed to. Instead we all decided to hit growth spurts. The last memories I had of my father was sitting at the table with his chequebook and those windowed envelopes
deciding which bill was priority. Of course he died before I turned 11 and then it became my mother& #39;s job. But what seem to bother them most - not the fact that most of my father& #39;s salary was going to debt, it was that our daily clothes got smaller and tighter for us.
We had two "going out" sets of clothes. Two pairs of school pants. Three shirts. One pants would have to be washed and ironed before the next day. And we had 3 pairs of shoes. School shoes, after school slops and going out shoes.
Our pjs which we were used to being changed every six months were now beyond just slightly small. Walking through the floods said one tactful relative.
We were that family, two cars, holidays, latest gadgets (Father had cameras and video cameras before it was fashionable. had one of the first IR remote VCRs 
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="đ" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">) and then it was all gone. So I get bothered when I see kids not having things like clothes.
We have to do more to share with everyone. This accumulation culture has destroyed most middle income homes, some recover, some don& #39;t. People base their values on the things they have these days.
