make do and mend for tougher times

grandma247

The thing is mrs Chip you can put up with a lot if you know there will be an end to it.

born_blonde

Fuddle, you are amazing - can I borrow you.
Just think about storage. Dual purpose things like a coffee table chest to put bedding in and somewhere to store your clothes.

Ginny, Mum used to get collected by ambulance car for her appointments and my Aunt could go with her. Lots of waiting around but no parking worries. Does your hospital do similar?

Popperwell

grandma247 wrote: »

be very careful where you put the dot in your hourly wage. I put it in the wrong place somehow and we were nearly 9,000 a month better off, I wish

It looks from that final total that we could be entitled to a small amount of housing help of some sort. Not sure what that is since we have a mortgage and we do not claim council tax. We have not even tried because of the mess they have made in the past. Also there looks to be other help which will probably be the replacement for child tax credit?
As dh will be 62 in 2014 he would be eligible for pension credits but I don't know if they are changing that too.

Everything is up in the air no wonder we're worried...we fear the future and life can change in seconds, it does and has as proven today on here but I keep hoping our fears are unfounded and it will work out but when you struggle to basic bills like food, gas, electric, rent etc...it's already failing.

And threads like ours show that most are not like the people the media finds or politicians talk about and cause ill feeling as people think anyone on benefit is raking it in or are scroungers.

The low paid are struggling and then we have those who just have enough to disqualify them from help. Not sure what's happenong about pension credits but I'm 5 years away from that possibility. As they now say you retire at 67 they'll certainly push any help given further back at some point if they don't scrap it altogether.

Popperwell

shegar wrote: »

We do have Peacocks in Ipswich as well as Primark, may pop in for a look while im there...Thanks

Could be wrong but I think the PJ's were long sleeved £8, gloves £4.50 each, socks £5 but forgot to check the price of the dressing gowns...

fuddle

Mrs_Chip wrote: »

Oh ignore me :rotfl:sounds like half the board have done it and it works fine!

Nooooo! You talk a lot of sense. We have the bounding beagle/collie. To [STRIKE]We[/STRIKE] I have a lot of cheap tat otherwise known as clothes. The girls are still little with toys gallore. There's so much to think about but if anyone can pull it off, we can

Great to know others have made a go of it and I'm not a complete fruit loop... :rotfl:

Popperwell

shegar wrote: »

Dont forget tonight at 7.30.Martin Lewis money show on Anglia or ITV.........:)

I forgot about that today but remembered yesterday. Will watch later;)

Sorry about the carry on at the hospital Ginny and Shergar something similar happened to Mum 4 weeks before I lost her. The care was not good in my opinion I was better with her and wish I had insisted she was at home but can't change things.

grandma247

Popperwell wrote: »

Not sure what's happenong about pension credits but I'm 5 years away from that possibility. As they now say you retire at 67 they'll certainly push any help given further back at some point if they don't scrap it altogether.

We have already discovered they have pushed back the fuel allowance by 2 years as he should have got it this year under the old rules. I think it will be gone before he get to that point.

GreyQueen

mardatha wrote: »

EXCUSE ME hen - its a DEMON! It might be out of focus GQ maybe I shrunk it too much in the wash.
LOL mrs chip xxx

:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

LMAO! I stand corrected. Shrunk it in the wash...........wandering off into the kitchen shaking my head at the delightful daftness on Planet MSE.........

Mrs_Chip

I thought she had put the RV in a tiny bottle and posted him on here so she could have a quiet night!

kidcat

Fuddle - I know people who have managed what you are considering, but they were mostly both out all day and kids were much younger and not at school. They had parents who had larger houses and spent alot of time there with the kids.
With kids the amount of "stuff" you have is amazing, added to the difficulties when kids bring friends home. You also come across as very house proud and it may well be that living that way would seriously depress you.
I think there is a difference when there is a guaranteed deadline.
When we moved to the last house, it was miles away from where we needed to be, the commute to school was a nightmare and the kids were nowhere near their friends. I found it really hard and it got me down, however there was an end in sight and knowing that made it possible to carry on.

That being said if you can manage it, hats off to you it could easily speed up your savings.

Mardatha - I thought you had managed to put RV up too