View Poll Results: How much do you spend after rent, schooling, energy bills and annual flights.
<10,000dhs Lionheart's got nothing on moi!
6
22.22%
10,000 - 15,000
13
48.15%
15,000 - 20,000
1
3.70%
20,000 - 25,000
1
3.70%
25,000 - 30,000
0
0%
30,000 - 40,000
1
3.70%
40,000 - 50,000
1
3.70%
50,000 - 60,000
0
0%
60,000 - 80,000
1
3.70%
>80,000 I have no idea, ask one of my accountants
3
11.11%
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How Much do you Spend?
Jun 1st 2011 | 11:38 pm
#46
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Ethos- how has your spending chancged back in Blighty?
Jun 1st 2011 | 11:40 pm
#47
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Jun 1st 2011 | 11:41 pm
#48
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Jun 2nd 2011 | 12:37 am
#51
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Rents are more expensive.
Transportation is cheaper (well, no car at the moment!)
London is more high maintenance. In DXB I only worked during the week and socialised on the weekend. But now I work and socialise during the week and weekends are quieter. I have to say I actually like having the quiet weekends. I bought a cookbook and I've been practicing from it.
Transportation is cheaper (well, no car at the moment!)
London is more high maintenance. In DXB I only worked during the week and socialised on the weekend. But now I work and socialise during the week and weekends are quieter. I have to say I actually like having the quiet weekends. I bought a cookbook and I've been practicing from it.
Jun 2nd 2011 | 12:42 am
#52
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Rents are more expensive.
Transportation is cheaper (well, no car at the moment!)
London is more high maintenance. In DXB I only worked during the week and socialised on the weekend. But now I work and socialise during the week and weekends are quieter. I have to say I actually like having the quiet weekends. I bought a cookbook and I've been practicing from it.
Transportation is cheaper (well, no car at the moment!)
London is more high maintenance. In DXB I only worked during the week and socialised on the weekend. But now I work and socialise during the week and weekends are quieter. I have to say I actually like having the quiet weekends. I bought a cookbook and I've been practicing from it.
Jun 2nd 2011 | 5:00 pm
#53
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Didn't work out though.............. which means I had the choice of "Private v East Sussex State Education".
Which isn't a choice at all.
And which is why I haven't retired yet.
Jun 2nd 2011 | 5:48 pm
#54
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Jun 2nd 2011 | 5:50 pm
#55
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
That can sometimes be the case, but if you've been in the private sector since nursery age, you won't have had the 'special coaching' needed to address the tick-the-boxes exam known as the 11-Plus................
Jun 2nd 2011 | 6:46 pm
#56
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
I went to a state school and royally failed my 11+ by a nice margin. We never even prepared for it. I'm sure the private kids were doing trial runs months in advance...
Jun 2nd 2011 | 6:53 pm
#57
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Isn't the private sector better at tick-the-box exams? That's normally the most common complaint. Education for exam success not education for employment.
I went to a state school and royally failed my 11+ by a nice margin. We never even prepared for it. I'm sure the private kids were doing trial runs months in advance...
I went to a state school and royally failed my 11+ by a nice margin. We never even prepared for it. I'm sure the private kids were doing trial runs months in advance...
At the 'prep' school attended by mine, they received a very broadly-based education, which led to the multi-subject "Common Entrance" exam in Year 8, which admits you to your chosen public school.
The last time I looked at an 11-Plus paper, it was all multiple choice, which is the classic form of tick-the-box examination..............
Jun 2nd 2011 | 6:59 pm
#58
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
Do they still have the 11 plus exams? I honestly thought that the grammar school system had been abolished by the Socialists. Glad to see they are still going strong. Do they still have the direct grant system?
Jun 2nd 2011 | 7:02 pm
#59
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
11-Plus exams still exist where there are grammars (Bucks, Kent, and one or two isolated other places).
Jun 28th 2011 | 12:27 am
#60
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Re: How Much do you Spend?
so this month I saved my credit card slips, I have spent 3500 dhs and 599 dhs of that was on a new pagoda, and 250 dhs on a diamond repair. So is that alot or not ?
