Downsizing and smaller bedrooms

lumpy_bum

lol @ sleeping in a single bed. either way youll be getting bunk beds for the boys so why bin your double... buy a single? thats wasting money. what about when they boys are ill and want to climb in with mummy... er sorry kids... i bought a single bed cos youve had the bigger room lol. i wouldnt sleep in a single either, and mine, same as your kids, always come first. nothing wrong with them having the smaller room, plus whilst its effin freezing it will be nice and cosy! ... chin up, you are a good mum, people should try walking a mile in your bloody shoes, and well if they didnt understand then, least they would be a mile away much love xxx

Dontknowanymore

lumpy_bum wrote: »

lol @ sleeping in a single bed. either way youll be getting bunk beds for the boys so why bin your double... buy a single? thats wasting money. what about when they boys are ill and want to climb in with mummy... er sorry kids... i bought a single bed cos youve had the bigger room lol. i wouldnt sleep in a single either, and mine, same as your kids, always come first. nothing wrong with them having the smaller room, plus whilst its effin freezing it will be nice and cosy! ... chin up, you are a good mum, people should try walking a mile in your bloody shoes, and well if they didnt understand then, least they would be a mile away much love xxx

Thnx
Haha love the 'at least they would be a mile away', never heard that one before.
Yeah my Ry loves sneaking in my bed, freaks me right out when I wake up with summink next to me till I realise it's him! :eek::rotfl:

lumpy_bum

i get the same with will... lil monkey keeps me awake though cos he wriggles. i love how folks on this forum put people down and try to make them feel crap all the time. This is why i tend to keep away. you are allowed a life, yes youre single-ish- at the minute... but ya know, even if u were going out every weekend and bringing a different man back for ya own needs then its nobodys business but yours. keep ya double bed my lovely and heres hoping you have lots of fun in it x

Buttonmoons

Single beds are horrible DKAM. You stick with your double!!

I'd go for it You could probably swap your way to a bigger pad in a few years, and the boys are still quite young so it won't be a major problem right now (Perhaps will be when Aston is older tho )

I shared with my sister till I was 16 and she was 9, and then other sister came along and we got moved to a 4 bed (and huh, I still got a tiny box room)...


But, jst might mean throwing out a bunch of carp lying around (I need to do that with mine and soooo jealous of a 4 hallways storage!!)

Dontknowanymore

Buttonmoons wrote: »

Single beds are horrible DKAM. You stick with your double!!

I'd go for it You could probably swap your way to a bigger pad in a few years, and the boys are still quite young so it won't be a major problem right now (Perhaps will be when Aston is older tho )

I shared with my sister till I was 16 and she was 9, and then other sister came along and we got moved to a 4 bed (and huh, I still got a tiny box room)...


But, jst might mean throwing out a bunch of carp lying around (I need to do that with mine and soooo jealous of a 4 hallways storage!!)

We had a 3 bed house and I had to share with my sister for years cos my dad turned my room into a bloody bathroom!
Oh I have thrown out so much crap over the last few moves and still end up with more, Mum said I'm a hoarder! :eek:

carefullycautious

let us know how the move goes

Good luck with everything

TeenyBash

Secondly I am not sleeping in a single bed, that is just not an option.

I read through and see the reasons you feel this would not be an option is you can't sleep with your partner and you may not fit into a single bed?

I don't mean to cause any insult by this, but...Does your partner live with you? If not, then I personally don't feel that it would be a fair reason for your two boys to have a small room, just so you're partner can sleep in the same bed when he is there. I just feel that your children should come first, before anything else.

And yes, maybe you will have someone else (your partner) living with you in the future, but you live in a council property...so I think before considering moving someone in, you'd need to look at ways to rent privately for a bigger property, if your partner is working and chipping in.

Council housing is there for those most in need, your lifestyle choices while still on low income and reliant on their help isn't their responsibility and I don't see why they should have to accommodate that.

As you mentioned, you've wanted to move back for a long time. It sounds like a nice property. I'd seriously consider it. If not, you'll have to wait a little longer for your 'ideal' property.

looby75

TeenyBash wrote: »

I read through and see the reasons you feel this would not be an option is you can't sleep with your partner and you may not fit into a single bed?

I don't mean to cause any insult by this, but...Does your partner live with you? If not, then I personally don't feel that it would be a fair reason for your two boys to have a small room, just so you're partner can sleep in the same bed when he is there. I just feel that your children should come first, before anything else.

And yes, maybe you will have someone else (your partner) living with you in the future, but you live in a council property...so I think before considering moving someone in, you'd need to look at ways to rent privately for a bigger property, if your partner is working and chipping in.

Council housing is there for those most in need, your lifestyle choices while still on low income and reliant on their help isn't their responsibility and I don't see why they should have to accommodate that.

As you mentioned, you've wanted to move back for a long time. It sounds like a nice property. I'd seriously consider it. If not, you'll have to wait a little longer for your 'ideal' property.

wow a lot of assumptions there!

apart from the the fact the OP has already posted that she's now found out that a double bed will fit in the small room so the boys can have the bigger room you there is absolutely no reason for anyone to move out of a council properly if they start a new relationship, why on earth would anyone (especially someone with children) want to give up the security of a council tenancy when there is no guarentee that the relationship will work out. You never really know someone until you live with them.

spicyprawn

Hi Just wanted to see if you had thought about storage at all? I have 2 double bedroom gf flat with 2 girls. I have the bigger room purely because I have all the stuff that can't go any where else!

Badger_Lady

Glad you've got it sorted OP

On the subject of 'thinking outside the box', this is one of the rooms in my house. When you said 'the double bedroom is massive' I wondered whether there's scope for you to do something similar, even if just for the first few years: