"Simply not solvent!

Seaxwyn

Hi Chev
Wow that is lots to do before March! Sounds very stressful with all the uncertainty. Some friends of mine are emigrating to New Zealand too and they have put together an eighteen-month run-up to get everything done.

I'm sure it will be worth it when you get out there.

We have four children, in a four-bed house. But the rooms are small (I'm not exaggerating). Currently DD3 and DS share a room and that is not a good mix. I do think of swapping them round, maybe put DD2 and DD3 together (don't want the twins sharing), but once I thought of moving that seemed less stressful!

The twins go to secondary school in the next town, two miles away. The school is near a big post-war council estate, the houses are all in private hands now but I imagine would be cheaper than ours. The younger two are at primary school a short walk from our present house, but once DD3 is at secondary school that will be 3 children walking the two miles every day, which tips the balance in favour of moving.

Anyway that's my logic. Perhaps I'm being silly wanting the children to have their own rooms. But I will just stress again that our house is SMALL and there is no potential to extend further in any direction, or to subdivide rooms.

chevalier

Would you be able to pay off some of your debt with any extra money freed up from selling, or would you still have to put all the money in the house into another house?

Seaxwyn

We'd have to put all the money into buying another house. But once the fixed rate period on our mortgage ends in June, our mortgage will probably be our highest interest debt, so it will be the priority for overpayments from that point.

hypno06

skiing :j :T

what more can I say :rotfl:

Seaxwyn

hypno06 wrote: »

skiing :j :T

what more can I say :rotfl:

I hope we don't get as addicted as you lot

Sea78

Hey Seaxwyn - did you ring up about that job? Or have I just missed that!

How are things with you this week?

Sea xxx

taxi73

just popping in to say hi and see if you're ok?

Seaxwyn

Thanks you two. Sea, I did apply for that job and haven't heard back. I thought it was almost a cert as I'm an insider and was 'encouraged' to apply. Maybe I was too complacent.

I've got lots of work this week but not so much after that.... time to put my thinking cap on.

Big drama here as OH has lost the car key. This is unprecedented. He never ever loses his keys and can't disguise his scorn when I go through my daily flap looking for my keys/purse/phone. But this time it's definitely his fault, and it seem serious, he has hunted high and low and they are nowhere to be found.

Sea78

Oh no - are they attached to any other keys or is it jsut the car key on it's own?

Not in yesterdays trousers/jeans?

sea xxx

Seaxwyn

Just the car key and one of those pound-coin-thingies that go in a shopping trolley, on a fairly substantial key ring. He's looked in yesterday's trousers, around the house, up and down the street, everywhere really. I really hope they turn up or we will have to break a window in the car to get the manual, which contains the details to get a copy made. But meanwhile I'm almost enjoying seeing him stew, I hope it teaches him some compassion for the disorganised!