Big Society? C'mon then Cameron, lend us your loft...

[yaigi]

Email just received:

"Dear Miss Yates,

The Government announced in its Budget on 21st March 2012 that VAT would be added to self storage sales with effect from 1st October 2012. This will apply to all storage services at self storage, removals and container companies in the UK.

For more information please see the full letter attached.

Yours sincerely

Adrian Lee
Operations Director"

So now the stuff we have in storage will be costing us 20% extra, on an already pretty expensive outgoing. Thank you Conservative/Lib Dem Coalition. Thank you very much. We put our stuff in storage because we couldn't afford to live in a house because your stupid government fucked up the job market. So now we're living with my parents. Luckily I have parents who were able to do this otherwise we'd be homeless. Rub salt into the wounds why don't you. Can we store our stuff at Number 10? I'm sure you have plenty of space... c'mon, big society and all that, do your bit, chip in...
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[Marmalade]

I do hope you have put this into a letter to #10 or it will be a pointless moan.

It is unlikely to do anything but maybe one micron of guilt (however unlikely) is better than nothing
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[arry]

[yaigi]

[yaigi]

[Chalky.]

Sell stuff, buy house.

Live in house with no stuff. Minimalist

[yaigi]

Haha selling my stuff wouldn't buy me a garden shed.
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What would you do in life, if you knew you could not fail?
Currently own - Fazer 600, 2000, Red. (But no riding as baby on board atm)

[Rogerborg]

Would it cost you that much to eBay / Gumtree / Freecycle it? Flog, rebuy, you're already pissing money away on the storage.

(Like that argument worked on Mrs Borg last time we flitted... )

If you want to get political:

The Tories are taxing it because they need the money to buy some new PPP contracts from their cousins.
nuLabour would tax it because you're a bourgeois capitalist hoarding goods that should be redistributed to the proletariat.
The LibDems would tax it because hatstand gibber polecat.
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[yaigi]

[Im-a-Ridah]

[Rogerborg]

[Marmalade]

Sell all bulky stuff, buy a small shed to store the remainder for less than a months worth of storage cost.

Or, throw the lot out, save the ~£100 a month and buy what you need with the saved cash.
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[yaigi]