Divorce

Certainly get yourself a house - what else are you going to do, fritter your money away on rent?

Once you have your house owned outright, then your outgoings are relatively low. If you fall ill and can't work, that's what you - er, your wife - has paid tax and NI for all these years...

 

Yanking your chain, Kools .

Seriously - get a fully-paid-for roof over your head. Priority. Everything else can take a back seat.

If you rent, you will see your savings disappear to the point where renting will be the only option ever available to you.

And buy wisely. You have practical skills - you've shown them on here. At least look for a house that's really 'dated' inside, hasn't been decorated in decades - that is enough to put lots of people off, but is an opportunity to save a few £k.

If you then find you cannot work due to ill-health, you should get support for this.

Meanwhile, minimise your future outgoings by avoiding rent, and secure your cut from this divorce - which means 'buy'.

This is an opportunity, Kools. Start looking through your options - consider widening the area you'll consider. Think of what will give you most peace of mind - rural vs urban, for example.

But, buy carefully and wisely.

It's a golden opportunity, man.

 

And, that, ladies and gents, is why I post on here.

For my daily ego massage

 

Good advice from DA (as always). Look after No. 1 as no other ****er will.

 

Where in South wales are you at the moment?

 

I take it nobody has alerted to "Universal credit" which is now sweeping the UK quicker than a dose of clap in a dirty brothel
Oh boy are you in for a shocker!
I now work 50 hours a week to keep a one bed bungalow roof over my little head. Up north!
It's tough at the top kid my hands are ruined with blisters
You need to get a bit of positivity going koolstrong!
Make hay whilst the sunshines.
Gerrup & fight

 

How about starting a 'marriage' thread?

Need to find you a wife who can take good care of you

 

Is that a proposal Jit.

 

Not necessarily me, but there is someone out there!

 

Come on Jit that was more than a suggestion! by the way Kools doesn't really look as good as his avatar.

 

Happy chappy.

 

Rollocks to that, I'm taking my servants with me.

 

Never say never.

Just don't know who you may bump into!

No one's here forever so may as well make the best of the time we have.