Journey to happy skinflintedness

Thanks he's been a pain of a cat, the one before him never cost us anything much but he's had his nine lives and then some. It's a good job he's so cute...

No news. Bank account is running on fumes but no need for any cash so it doesn't matter too much. Dying to test out this wheelchair, hopefully there will be a bit of cleaning this week as I couldn't last week.

Son & heir's form teacher got arrested last year and just admitted guilt in court, bit of a surprise because he was always completely ordinary. Yeesh.

Did a little bit of shopping this morning, nothing much just a chance to go for a spin with the wheelchair. It did okay, not as solid and chunky as the red cross one but it definitely felt like it would stand up to what we want to do with it. OH was a bit grumpy about it but we kept it short and he didn't have the time for a full sulk :rotfl:

L!nk sent an agreement and standing order form through, the agreement has the original full amount on, illegal charges and all! They'll get a letter, I'm not wasting yet more money on that 0844 number. You'd think people that are so determined to maintain an attitude problem would at least have the decency to be competent at their jobs.

Nothing else. Long walk tomorrow, I can't wait :beer:

Everything was going great and then Access to Work put a dampener on everything

OH is hanging on to this job by sheer willpower at the moment, he is not well enough but struggles through because he can't stand the thought of never working again. Access to Work have reimbursed him for taxis there and back and it made a massive difference, he couldn't work at all without it. They pay everything minus what he'd normally pay on public transport.

They always run at least two weeks behind so we gave it longer before ringing, only to find out that due to restructuring they are at least six weeks behind and in some cases still reimbursing from July.

This might be fine if we were talking about reasonable amounts of money but we aren't. I maintain a £1000 float (wasted money that we won't see again until he stops working) so that he can get reimbursed and that will be gone next week.

Now thank goodness due to no fault of our own we have the emergency fund, but that won't last long either and we also won't have an emergency fund.

The stress of needing to carry a £2000 float on a low wage is ridiculous. That's two months wages. I can't do it! It's not possible for us to have any sort of emergency fund even with a tax windfall, if we didn't get that he'd be out of a job after next week.

OH needs to work and I need to juggle money so that he can. No other company would ever hire him, this company only do because they're a huge multinational and he worked for them for seven years then took five years off sick and his PHI company negotiated a return for him.

I haven't discussed any of this with OH, he can't take the stress at all and doesn't even think about money most of the time. I'm very on edge and shaky about even the thought of broaching it with him, I'll just have to find the money from somewhere without letting him know.

Torn between being super grateful they reimburse it at all and very nervous about them losing him the job he wouldn't even have without them.

The taxi firm is the only one that will deal with booked cabs and they don't do the invoicing thing, he has to pay cash and get reimbursed. If they invoiced they'd have stopped a while ago anyway!

It took so long to build that float up to £1000, more than that will seriously impact the monthly budget and take a while.

Back to the skinflinting poverty grindstone.

Thanks, black cat. I'll calm down by tomorrow and get on to my cheapo recipe sites again - it'll be fine, the light at the end of the tunnel was just another train :rotfl: