Hello everyone, please help AuntieMabel on her mortgage free mission!

AuntieMabel

Really interesting article on bbc news website here http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-13393192
called 'The parental spending craze'

Makes scary reading. All about keeping up with the Jones's.

£1000+ for a buggy :eek::eek::eek: cos a celeb has one. Heaven help us.

Brodiebobs

i cant beleive people would pay £1200 for a buggy!!!

Saying that for my youngest i bought a buggaboo off ebay for £110 with the car seat and everything best thing i ever bought loved it to bits, but was whispered about at the school gates... lol... one nasty mum even said in front of her gang "how'd u afford that on your husbands wage..... must be on credit!!"... cow bag.

AuntieMabel

Brodiebobs wrote: »

i cant beleive people would pay £1200 for a buggy!!!

Saying that for my youngest i bought a buggaboo off ebay for £110 with the car seat and everything best thing i ever bought loved it to bits, but was whispered about at the school gates... lol... one nasty mum even said in front of her gang "how'd u afford that on your husbands wage..... must be on credit!!"... cow bag.

GRRR. Doesn't it annoy you how people feel that thay have the right to make comments on whatever they think, even if they are completely barking up the wrong tree?? :mad:

The NHS has finished with me til Saturday night but I've now got to get the kitchen painted before the wall units are hung on Friday. I'd much rather do it this way that have to paint found them and risk getting paint on them, but the thought of it is :(:(.

Will all be worth it in the end.

Radish72

Paint before the wall units go up as its

easier
much better finish
when the kitchen fitters leave it will be finished and you can enjoy it instead of thinking "Oh I've got to paint"

mummyofonechild

AuntieMabel wrote: »

GRRR. Doesn't it annoy you how people feel that thay have the right to make comments on whatever they think, even if they are completely barking up the wrong tree?? :mad:

The NHS has finished with me til Saturday night but I've now got to get the kitchen painted before the wall units are hung on Friday. I'd much rather do it this way that have to paint found them and risk getting paint on them, but the thought of it is :(:(.

Will all be worth it in the end.

Yes it will be worth it. We asked our kitchen fitters to do the painting. Was well worth the extra £100

wynnvegas

Brodiebobs wrote: »

i cant beleive people would pay £1200 for a buggy!!!

Saying that for my youngest i bought a buggaboo off ebay for £110 with the car seat and everything best thing i ever bought loved it to bits, but was whispered about at the school gates... lol... one nasty mum even said in front of her gang "how'd u afford that on your husbands wage..... must be on credit!!"... cow bag.

Cow bag :rotfl: - I'm absolutely going to use that as an insult from now on!

Cheers,

Billy

katsu

I guess they don't call people a coobag up your way then Billy? Must be the shaggy look as us southeners grew up with some right cowbags

Brodiebobs

ha ha actually u might be right katsu, i'm in yorkshire but i picked up cowbag from my best mate who's from essex... never thought about where its from!!!:rotfl:

Hope the painting goes well... make sure you open the windows!!

AuntieMabel

Have been painting the kitchen from 10-3 and my shoulders and neck are killing me . The joiner and I worked round each other in perfect harmony as he joined and I painted . It was so warm today that the paint dried quickly so most of it has had 2 or 3 coats. Will have to get v tall DH to do the bits that I couldn't reach even when standing on the top step of the stepladder and stretching in a very dangerous manner . It's all coming together all of a sudden and should be finished by the end of next week.
I had to pay for the granite in full before they would cut it and although it's still a lot of money, it came in at £700 less than I had budgeted for as originally I chose a more expensive granite :D.
Have kept a little list of every single kitchen related purchase so will know to the penny how much I have spent when it's finished. Then will smugly compare it to the outrageous quotes I got from the big kitchen companies!!

Iris_Blue

I'm from Manchester and I know plenty of cow bags. They always hang around in herds at the school gates.:D

The kitchen sounds fabulous darling!:)