Quote Originally Posted by westcountryvillain View Post
I guess if the credit wasn't available then orders would drop and retailers, their suppliers & the jobs within them would be adversely affected?

The stuff I consider valuable wasn't necessarily what I'd saved up for as such, more a passion or emotional connection to - my old vinyl collection being a case in point.
You're definitely right in your first point. The UK now is very much a consumer society with most people being employed in either the retail/hospitality or financial/banking sector if not by the state (e.g. NHS) or local government. Comparatively few work in industry so long gone is the Britain famed for once being the "work shop of the world".

As for your second point, I do agree about emotional attachments to certain things and I too have a pretty good vinyl collection-unfortunately, I also have too much other stuff I'm also attached to according to the better half!&#128512. Just saying that I think if you have worked to save for something it seems to mean a bit more?