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I might suggest that this website is not here to boast about how well off we are, but it is here to commiserate with the ones that are NOT as lucky as we are.
Papa
For a start , nobody was boasting !!
I am not jealous of any pensioner who has made a good life for his/her self.
Must we hide any good news and only concentrate on bad news . I don't think that that is what this forum is about .
It is a general pensioner forum and should include every aspect of being an OAP.
More to the point .What can we do personally , to ensure that at least "one " Pensioner in poverty has a good christmas.
We can all talk about commiserating , sometimes we have to do something practical !
My family have for years taken the opportunity to support one "OAP couple in need " with a christmas hamper and make sure that they are warm and settled during this holiday period.
On numerous occasions we have invited them to our homes to share dinner with us !It depends what arrangements we have made with in-laws ?
My sons have taken over from me now , after 20 years , to keep this support going.
It all started with a charming lady in her eighties who lost her husband two months before christmas 1987. We could not see her alone,
sad and without company . She was disabled and her son lived abroad.