This is the God’s honest truth: As I stood in an interminable line in Waitrose this evening and stared at the magazine rack by the checkout, I felt a sudden flash of excitement at the thought of buying a flat—because maybe when I’m a homeowner, I will finally be able to get a Waitrose/John Lewis partnership card so that I can not only use the hand-held product scanners they have in the store for cardholders, I can also get Waitrose Food Illustrated every month FOR FREE. Now that’s worth getting into massive debt for, isn’t it?