The Turn £100,00 into £10,000 by the end of 2010 all dribble unofficial Thread

HopeAndDriftWood

AARRRSSSENNNNAAALLLLL GOAL!!!! That has made my day.
Now I just need good luck tomorrow and I'll be the happiest person alive.

Edit: Sorry, I needed to get that out :rotfl:

munchki

SaucySecrets wrote: »

AARRRSSSENNNNAAALLLLL GOAL!!!! That has made my day.
Now I just need good luck tomorrow and I'll be the happiest person alive.

Edit: Sorry, I needed to get that out :rotfl:

hehehe you and me both Saucy, I will also be the happiest person alive!

Crafty_Toots

YummyMummy20 wrote: »

RANT ALERT...

I've been playing with the calculator thing on entitledto.whatever and basically the realistic income whatever i do workwise (P/T, F/T or P/T with a bit of self employment like now - Anything apart from being unemployed really) minus rent and council tax and any relevant childcare costs would leave me with between £203-205 p/w for food, utilites, clothes, transport, fun etc. I was considering getting a 'proper' f/t job but if i'm not going to be any better off and essentially letting someone in a nursery bring up my son is it really worth it??

Don't get me wrong I don't want to be a bum/sponger/drain on taxpayers resources but if i'm not actually going to see any financial benefit should I really have to lose out with my son??

Currently I work 11-15hours p/w over 3/4 nights at a club, do Avon (rubbishly), this challenge (whatevers taxable is being accounted for properly), bring up a hyperactive yet lovely boy single handedly and study for a degree and bookkeeping course. Once the new bar is sorted I can get away with working 2-2&1/2 nights for the same money/hours so is it really going to be beneficial in any way getting a F/T job??

I'm in such a stupid situation where nothing quite adds up :mad: :wall:

I've never understood the system, it really doesn't pay to work, which is totally nuts. You're doing an amazing amount on your own :T I have no advice to offer, just hugs!

I've had the gall to update my siggy with my eBay sales :rotfl:

Toots x

wayne1983

Crafty_Toots wrote: »

I've never understood the system, it really doesn't pay to work, which is totally nuts. You're doing an amazing amount on your own :T I have no advice to offer, just hugs!

I've had the gall to update my siggy with my eBay sales :rotfl:

Toots x

8 quid more than me!. Oh and number 8 let me down on irish for more than £3000:(, twice in a fortnight one let me down for 3k!:mad:

HopeAndDriftWood

Arsenal win!
Okay, Fabregas did hand ball at the end, but I don't care :P Bless him.
Anyway, I'm feeling a bit better, and have managed to eat a few bites of bread for the first time today.
I'm just submitting some paperwork, and hopefully tomorrow I'll get some good news, and everything start slotting into the right place. I need it too!

YummyMummy - I know, benefits work in such a stupid way. At the end of the day, you are doing so much, and if it makes you worse off struggling to work as well, it isn't worth it.

cally6008

Benefits = Has anyone read the That's Life magazine this week ? Article on pages 3+4 was a woman boasting bout all the benefits she gets as a single mum of 3 kids and saying how her kids have the latest xbox, mobiles n laptops and how she is proud of the fact that she gets £252 to live off after her bills have been paid for her

Angry is not the word ....... to top it off .... she lives in the same town as me

Edit - I would suggest buying it to read but pretty sure new one is out tomoro

YummyMummy20

It just kinda sucks that your penalised for trying. Maybe for now i am better off sticking at a job i hate about 80% of the time. I really hate feeling like a bum though! Although i'm hoping that getting my degree done a bit quicker means i'll still be able to get an ok job once my monsters in school (not this Sept, next Sept). I don't want him growing up thinking it's ok to have no job/a carppy job though. Dammit, parentings hard, lifes hard.

Ooooh new career, i'll be one them people that tells 13year olds that having babies young to get houses and benefits is NOT a good idea and actually doesn't even work even if you do it accidently; babies may be cute but kids are hard work!!

It's weird, I actually feel in control financially atm, I just have to go looking for problems :rotfl:

HopeAndDriftWood

You aren't teaching your son not to have a job, you are studying for a degree, and looking after him!!

Watching Sevilla play footie now. I even greeted OH's Mexican friends in Spanish earlier. Obsessed? :rotfl:

YummyMummy20

cally6008 wrote: »

Benefits = Has anyone read the That's Life magazine this week ? Article on pages 3+4 was a woman boasting bout all the benefits she gets as a single mum of 3 kids and saying how her kids have the latest xbox, mobiles n laptops and how she is proud of the fact that she gets £252 to live off after her bills have been paid for her

Angry is not the word ....... to top it off .... she lives in the same town as me

Edit - I would suggest buying it to read but pretty sure new one is out tomoro

I hate people like that and I hope what I wrote doesn't make me seem like that! It just makes the next generation worse, having that as a role model, as their picture of normality. I can't stand being reliant on benefits, that's why I have my carppy job, it's easy, no responsibility & no childcare to pay wiping out my wages.

Crafty_Toots

YummyMummy you sound like you're doing a great job of juggling several things at once, and if you're in control financially, that's the icing on the cake. You sound like you feel you should be doing something else because it's expected of you. Like, others looking in may be judging your carpy job? Sure, I know you don't like it much, but if you hang on in there till you've got your degree, which as you say is going to be faster, it'll be worth it. You've got more time to spend with you little 'un and you're working towards a better future for you both.

Saucy, glad you're feeling a bit better hun! Fingers are still crossed, typing is a nightmare!

Toots x