MF at last! Now for the £300,000 'Mansion' Fund.

earthgirl

It feels like so long since I have posted! I was here in spirit though, just very busy, and a tiny bit ill with a cold which hasn't helped.

Last week was manic, without oh to help me out, and a paents evening to do, ds just did not see enough of me, and the house just didn't get sorted out. It has really confirmed to me how much I want to go part time.

My freind visited at the weekend, but the weather was really miserable, and I felt rotten - I am so tired with pregnancy anyway, and I also have a cold. Ds seems to always be disturbed at night time now too. I am hoping its just teething and not a nasty habit thats forming!

Anyway we went to soft play (£2) and then I cooked all the meals from scratch, so it was a cheap weekend. She also looked after ds whilst I did some tutoring, so that was good.

At work we are facing redunancies properly again. Its the worst case senario really, the process will probably start after i return from mat leave (so no escaping it!) and will involve our schoolo being amalgamated with another closer one, and the closer one is horrendous, not only might I nothave a job, but the closer school will become the one in our catchement area for ds, so we will have to move. I had secretly hoped they would just close it - its 35% a-c!!

I have tried to reduce my sky bill, no luck, so I am on the war path about leaving again, if only I could get oh to agree!

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

Redundancy is great if you want it.... But not when you don't have a choice. Fingers crossed that it all works out whatever happens.

All the best,

Squirrel

Brodiebobs

agree with squirrell, and if you do get made redundant your in the best possible position to face it, mortgage free and with a great savings pot, plus the time at home with the littlies!!

earthgirl

Thaks guys. I have come round to your way of thinking!!!

It could actually work out amazingly well (except for the ds catchment area thing) as I could get a nice package of redundancy and actually just get more time at home with ds and earthlet 2, before hopefully ending up with a nicer job when the jobs market picks up again!!

I am so glad I found this site and met all of you lovely likeminded people (8 years ago I think) as it has really spured me on and I am in such a good position now.

Working makes me inefficient - I don't have the time to cook stuff from scratch and really focus on what we spend our money on, plus paying for two little ones in nursery will not be cheap!

I have done some calculations on the sky thing, and I have worked out that it is slightly cheaper to stay with sky, until the freeview hd recorder boxes reduce in price. I am going to complain though and see if I can get some discount in a few months.

Right I must get on with a little bit of work!!

museumworker

Glad this site gives you a bit of what you need , and don't forget you're a great inspiration to us too.

Redundancy does sound like a good opportunity, and you are in a fantastic financial position whichever way it goes.

I take it that is secondary school catchments you're talking - so you have several years before you would even need to consider moving - and it could improve, or you might find another school to get ds into. You'll be in your mansion by then anyway .

pawlala

earthgirl have you thought about what mansion you want to buy with your £300k?

I saw this and thought of your thread!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35932406.html

CathT

oooh, I like that!

twinklie

Yeah I could go for that! ha ha.

I'm also struggling with tiredness Earthy...so I feel your pain. It's also parents evening season for us and I did a 2 hour catch up with year 11 after school today (part of directed time). I'm pooped pooped and more pooped.

earthgirl

pawlala wrote: »

earthgirl have you thought about what mansion you want to buy with your £300k?

I saw this and thought of your thread!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35932406.html

:rotfl: Lovely interior what a good price! We were going to go for something with a bit of a view though, or nice coutryside surroundings, could you manage that too?

With the equity in our house, we should have about £500,000 - £600,000 at the end of our mamouth savings journey, but to be honest, we will probably not save as much as anticipated as I plan to go part time.

WallyBird

pawlala wrote: »

earthgirl have you thought about what mansion you want to buy with your £300k?

I saw this and thought of your thread!

http://www.rightmove.co.uk/property-for-sale/property-35932406.html

Lovely house. If this person or their estate agents are tracking the number of views, they will be SO excited at the number of views if we all click on it! :rotfl: