MSE Parents Club Part 12

greent

weezl74 wrote: »

It seems to be that IRL people say that children get very expensive as they grow up. How much does everyone feel this HAS to be the case?

My DD is 12 and DS1 is 10. I know some of her friends parents will spend £500 on each child at Xmas/ birthdays - that's just ridiculous! Ours get about £75. OSMetimes more (eg they have DS lites) but not often. They don't get pocket money from us as such - they get money into their bank accounts. They do get monthly pm from my mum, weekly from DHs mum and occasional from DH's gran. They save this and buy stuff they want (DS games, books etc)

DD has my old laptop in her bedroom and one of my mum's old mobile phones. She has PAYG and I have only put £25 on there in a year - she's pretty good. Laptop is essential for secondary school.

I'd agree with the school costs - and they're worse when at secondary. The uniform (winter and summer version) (inc compulsory crested blazer), dance kit, summer sports kit, winter sports kit, swimming kit, then the trips etc. Ours also would like each parent to pay min £20/ mth by standing order towards new school sports hall - they phone you up to see why not if you don't send the form back:eek:

Clothes wise DD is fine. SHe gets some Debenhams clothes from my friend's daughter. I buy some from Debenhams, NExt, Matalan, Tesco, Sainsbury - atm it's ok. I suspect it will change:cool:

greent x

Sami_Bee

Fitzio

Forgot to say - well done to Evie!!! Newbie Maz, you must be ecstatic!

Well done Maddy!

tarajayne

I like them all SS, they're beautiful.X

SugarSpun

Relax MFD, look:

*nothing to see here*

Sorry they're so big.

My_Fathers_Daughter

Sami_Bee wrote: »

:T:j

a wooden spoon?

That's the kind of thing...I could only think of rude things



Oh SS - they are beautiful.

tiamai_d

Afternoon! SS, Molly is just too cute getting!

So, whats been happening?

tarajayne

tiamai_d wrote: »

Afternoon! SS, Molly is just too cute getting!

So, whats been happening?

Nothink! :cool: In others words, although I read back I can only remember Rhys's tshirt! :rotfl:

tiamai_d

Arrrggghh! I can't log on to my bank I keep getting this

Secure Connection Failed

SSL peer reports incorrect Message Authentication Code.

(Error code: ssl_error_bad_mac_alert)

* The page you are trying to view can not be shown because the authenticity of the received data could not be verified.

* Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem. Alternatively, use the command found in the help menu to report this broken site.

:mad: Pain in the !!!!!

tiamai_d

tarajayne wrote: »

Nothink! :cool: In others words, although I read back I can only remember Rhys's tshirt! :rotfl:

Oh, what about his tshirt? (is it funny? I need a laugh)