Best way to deal with windfall

mike88

As for cheap places for your caravan I suggest you join the Caravan Club which gives you access to their network of Certificated Locations - 5 van sites for less than £10 per night.

As for your future location you can do a lot of research beforehand looking for areas where there might be jobs and where property is reasonably cheap to presumably rent.

Good luck!

makeitstop

womaninblack wrote: »

Thanks to for the helpful advice in 2 or 3 posts, it is very much appreciated.

Apart from that, maybe people shouldn't jump to conclusions.

I never said I was going around the world. I am going around the UK, in my own caravan which I already own and is paid for, it will be pulled by a vehicle which is also already paid for. I am searching for the cheapest sites I can.

I never said I was going travelling for a long time. I am talking about 1 to 6 months, depending on how long the money lasts, or if I get bored. I'm expecting it to realistically be 2 months.

I never said I expect the money to last for the rest of my life!!! If all goes to plan there will be some money left to last until I get another job when my little adventure has ended, and I have settled somewhere new (which is part of the reason for travelling - to find somewhere to settle).

I am not walking out on toddlers! My children are 24 and 22, one is already at university, the other will be hopefully going in September. The one not yet at uni left home 3 years ago!

As xylophone said, I have gone without for years, in order that my children could have a better future than myself. I think considering that two children out of two going to university means a 100% success rate, I did pretty well.

There is a reason for me quitting my job to do this. I am on a low wage, and currently have more outgoings than incomings. Thus I am gradually getting deeper in debt, and if I carry on in this job I will end up with nothing. PLUS - again, in order to give my children a future, I had to take whatever job I could to do this. I currently clean public toilets for a living. Whatever you think I have to clean up, believe me it is much worse, and you would not believe the depths people on drugs or prostituting themselves will sink to. There are NO jobs available in my area that offer full time hours, or more than minimum wage. So I am stuck where I am unless I do something drastic. I could give up my job and go on benefits, but as I have never done this before, I don't intend to now.

I am completely stuck as to what to do, which was the original reason for selling my home (as you might be able to realise, sticking your hands down public loos for 8 hours a day can become rather depressing). Then a friend suggested that after my place is sold I have a couple of months away from it all, and to be honest with you, after the job I've done, and the things I've had to do to give my children a chance in life, I think I deserve it!

Well done Womaninblack.

You deserve credit, not only for the way in which your children have perhaps been guided, but, for your ethics about working.

You also deserve some credit for NOT biting the heads of some of (well, one of) the numpties that responded to this thread.