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Originally Posted by Acrylic-bob
But our parents all paid tax and rates, I also worked and paid tax for eight years before going back into full time education, but that was how it was done then. I can't speak for Garinda, but I received a total grant of £1500 for the whole three years.
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As did mine A-B and probably people who are getting Arts' lessons free. ! £1,500 (£500 per year) would be a decent amount then. Sorry, don't really know how old you are, but think ? .. no better not...
Would be interesting to know what benefit you have given back to our community for this privilege outlay.
Know Garinda did produce expensive shirts for the wealthy.
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Originally Posted by garinda
I think people 'shop better' when they've still got some spare money left in their purse, after paying bills...and taxes.
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It is the less well off in our society that do shop in town to visit the pound and charity shops. We need to attract the better off that can afford to shop at the Supermarkets.
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Originally Posted by garinda
Though there may be some in crocheting.
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Crocheting I would put more under the category of skill rather than art, although it becomes an art when it is used to crochet items which cannot be used for clothing or table cloths. A skill that was passed from mother to daughter intertwining yarns to give poorer people the opportunity to have lovely garments too expensive in the shops. Surely not a bad thing with the shortage of disposable income these days.