Rich!

November 19th, 2007

The missus has been getting into mystery shopping. Generally you go into a shop to try on some clothes, ask for a different size and then return the clothes a little later. For that, you collect about a tenner and get to feel like a secret agent.

Yesterday though was a good one. She had to drop into a show-home on a new housing development and pretend to be in the market for a £430,000 house. So we all went and pretended to be rich folk. I wanted to wear an Asda uniform with a ‘part time’ badge just for a laugh but I didn’t have one so our little lad was buttoned into a shirt and wooly tank-top and ordered not to dribble down it. Gotta look the part.

First we saw the £425k show-home and I have to be honest I wasn’t very impressed. For 425 I was expecting to see a marble fountain in the hallway but instead there was a large number of disappointingly small looking rooms. So we expressed our disappointment through the medium of our acting talent. Also known as lying for money.

This allowed the nice lady to convince us to take a look at the £450,000 one along the street. I gotta say - I want that house. For an extra 25, you get a whole lotta extra home. Oh, how the other half live.

The problem with all this though is that by the end of it we’d actually convinced ourselves that we were going to buy the thing. Never mind that the mortgage payments would eclipse my monthly wages before you’d even mentioned council tax. We were in the car planning what to do with the top floor and where the TV should go. It was only when we got back home to our own little castle that we fully realised that it was just pretend and that we were probably going to have to cancel the second visit that we probably shouldn’t have arranged with the nice lady, who we now felt sorry for (She was excited by our enthusiasm to buy).
Oh well. At least we get to decide what to spend our tenner on.

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