MSE Parents Club Part 9

BeenieCat

Always, CB sent the birth certificate back to me after a week, but i've had no money yet, i posted mine on 13th. Although i did get my DS's money as usual on 19th, so not sure if it's different. I'm assuming i'll get Ambers CB in with DS next payment.

got-it-spend-it

Always- ours was pretty quick. I think it took about 10 days after we sent the form off, and as has been said it is back dated so you will probably get about 7 weeks worth or so when it is paid.

Newbie Maz- I like the look of that sea horse. I might get one for LO as he loves musical things at the moment but none of them seem to last more than 30 seconds or so.

BeenieCat

jillie1974 wrote: »

our CB took 3 weeks from what i remember. its backdated to the moday after LO is born

Aw really? Amber was born on a Monday so i lose a week? Not fair

SusanC_2

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Don't know how he thinks we can afford a flippin' car though. Ignoring the initial outlay for a car, what's the costs per year?

Basing it on a crappy 1.2 litre or something.

Road tax, Insurance and ermmmm M.O.T, is that every year costs? NOt forgetting the petrol. But then he'd be able to do overtime if he had a car, so it would pay for the petrol at least.

I usually budget around £1000 per year for our car (2002 1L Micra) excluding petrol. This then covers insurance (£200-300), MOT (£40), Car tax (£120), Service (£200-300 depending on how major it is) and then the rest is for odd repairs/replacements such as things which come up in service/MOT, replacement wiper blades etc. Our actual average spend in the last four years has been £890 assuming we spend another £180 this financial year (it's budgetted in case we need it). The first year I had it my insurance was £1000 probably because I was under 25 and had an accident six weeks earlier and it was a brand new car. My brother had extra lessons and did a "Pass Plus" test after he'd passed his driving test to make his insurance cheaper which may be worth looking into as being young, male and a new driver your OH will automatically be high risk for car insurance.

BeenieCat wrote: »

I also hate hate hate (with a PASSION) clothes shopping. So even when i could spare the cash to buy myself clothes, i tend to make do with what i've got rather than shop lol.

I don't like clothes shopping either (although possibly not as strongly as you). I find there's such a small percentage of clothing in the shops I like and then such a small percentage of what I try on that fits that it is a very time inefficient job.

SugarSpun wrote: »

GRrrr I'm reading the money for wedding presents thread and someone's just said that their kids and them are a package and must all be invited together all the time.

It's just ridiculous - sometimes kids aren't welcome to things. Like hen parties, or stag parties, or Ann Summers parties, or quiz night at the pub. And sometimes adults aren't welcome to things, like school, or sleepovers. What sort of message does it send a kid if the parent insists they all go everywhere together all the time?

I can see how people want kids at weddings because it is a family event, but it's not the place of a guest to make that decision. And when a kids' meal costs £30 for upmarket chicken nuggets and chips I can see how a couple might not want to do that for 30+ children of their extended family, you know?

Alice has been invited to all the weddings we have been invited to since she was born. I'm not sure how practical it would have been to go if she hadn't as all of them were at a distance so we were away staying in a hotel except for one which we went to on the way home from OH's parents (who are about 250 miles away). I certainly wouldn't be offended but probably wouldn't attend if only one of us could go unless it was local. When we got married, we had a limit on the number of people we could have (which was based on how many people could fit in the chapel) and we just worked through our list of priorities of who we wanted until we had reached the limit. If a friend was married with three children then we just counted them as five people.

Sami_Bee wrote: »

I've not been to a hairdresser for over a year :eek: I sereiously look like a tramp :cool:

I've not been to a hairdresser forever. (And I don't think I look like a tramp.)

weezl74 wrote: »

awwww 3, poor you! I think it's cos DH walks or cycles to work on 2-3 days a week, and work is only a 5 mile round trip (not the day he walks! that's half a mile!)
so really it's just that plus a bit of supermarket shopping on the weekend for us

Our car isn't used for OH's work and we spend about £800/year on petrol. Although £100 of that is our holiday and another £100 is visiting OH's parents. (And I've just worked out another £100 is going to church and back twice on a Sunday - who'd have thought it.)

BeenieCat wrote: »

lol i dunno who it is, i think i googled ugly woman a while ago and had it saved to my lappy for some reason :rotfl:

Why? (insert confused smiley)

fattybooboo

got-it-spend-it wrote: »

I've booked a hair apt for 2:45 so I can escape and they can have some quality time with Henry and DH. I cannot wait as my hair is so messy at the moment. I last had it cut 6 weeks before Henry's EDD, so 17 weeks ago :eek: <- that is my hair atm.

just catching up, hi all!! gisi, thats exactly how long my hair hasnt had a cut for either, im hating it!!

Buttonmoons

I used to hate clothes shopping, now I love it, probably because I'm not limited to Evans anymore!

I just worked out I've bought 5 dresses, 2 vests, 2 pairs of leggings, socks, a bra, a coat for me, and 3 pairs of pyjamas, pair of jeans, 3 dresses, pair of shoes for Keira. Since OH's last pay. Do you think I am a spendaholic?

To be fair, twas all in the sales therefore It's okay.

BeenieCat

newbie_maz wrote: »

Hi all,

Was just catching up & saw this. We bought some gripe water yesterday cos LO's been terrible in the evenings. She's tended to be awake from 4/5pm until midnight/1am crying apart from when feeding or in the bath. We'd tried extending bath time cos she seems to calm down loads then but there's only so long you I make bath time last!

So we used the gripe water last night - little bit less than 5ml as it says 5ml from 1 month & she's just under - with 2 of evening feeds & IT WORKED!! She was lovely apart from about an hour between about 10pm & 11pm when was still unsettled (but still not the screaming we'd had the last few nights).

Think it also helped that we bought a Fisher Price Sooth & Glow Seahorse yesterday. Bought one for some friends before she was born & wanted one for her since but not got round to buying it. It plays 5 mins of soft music with a night light on it's belly & she loves it. We put her in crib wide awake last night with that & it took 4 times of pressing it but eventually she went to sleep with it all on her own (been taking lots of rocking & cuddles at nighttime recently).

Anyway, back to catching up....

Ooh that's good to know, i'm strangely excited about trying it but trying not to assume it'll work straight away in case i'm disappointed :rotfl:

How much was the seahorse? Amber loves lights but i only have a mobile and it doesn't last long so i get sick of winding it up, so i've been looking for something like that.

edit - AF we have the glow worm too but like you say doesn't last long and i get bored of holding it up lol

3onitsway

We have the glow worm too, and my moan is that it only plays for a few seconds at a time!

I can recommend http://community.leapfrog.com/t5/My-Pals-Scout-and-Violet/bd-p/580005666.

We obviously got the Violet one.

You plug it into the lappy and download your own choice of tunes, and babies name etc.

It has buttons on its paws for daytime fun music, games and one for bedtime music. You can get two, five or ten minutes of bedtime music. V doesn't usually get to hear the end of ten minutes worth.

got-it-spend-it

I only booked my hair appointment as I couldn't stand the thought of spending 8 hours stuck at home with the in-laws, but I do desperately need it!

House cleaning is slow going. I've managed to blitz the bathroom then had to come downstairs and settle Henry and have somehow ended up on here!

BeenieCat

Susan i think someone on another forum asked for a photo of me so i sent him that one instead of a real one