Only freedom will do

Karmacat

Thank you! Thats brilliant - I've sent them a message on their contact form, we'll see what they say. Very kind of you Even if I still only got £1 profit per magazine (and they're selling copies of the mag I have, SFX, for between £13 and £30 - it would still be worth it because I'd have to do comparatively little

edinburgher

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:Do the Money Shuffle :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Doo doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo-doo, doo doo doo doodoo!

Ok, now I'm bored

£4.05 to Emergency Fund, £3 to Freedom Fund, will need to see how much cash we can put by once the MB dust settles. 11 bets settling this evening alone!

Tilly_MFW_in_6_YRS

You and your rock and roll lifestyle :rotfl::rotfl:

Tilly x x x

gallygirl

edinburgher wrote: »

:dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:Do the Money Shuffle :dance: :dance: :dance: :dance:

Doo doo doo doo-doo doo doo doo-doo, doo doo doo doodoo!

Will be joining you tomorrow night .

Weird that my song is :dance: :dance: :dance::dance: :dance: Do the money shuffle, yeah, yeah :dance: :dance: :dance::dance: :dance: but from counting your doo-doos we obviously have the same tune :rotfl:.

Karmacat

Counting doo-doos :rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

And 11 bets :eek:

Respect to you, O guru mine! I took long enough to join my library's online service!

edinburgher

All bets behaved themselves with only 2 further bets arising (MBs usually lead to cash profit at bookie/exhange, or another free bet to be used). The free bets are the least fun, as it requires another bet to extract your money. I think I made in the region of £60, that's a day's wage :beer:

Can I ask a question of the parents out there? Do you budget for childrens' clothes? If so, how much (child/month) is appropriate to keep a child appropriately clad on a non-Baby G@p budget?

Watty1

£60 is wonderful !

Busymumofthreeplusdog

edinburgher wrote: »

All bets behaved themselves with only 2 further bets arising (MBs usually lead to cash profit at bookie/exhange, or another free bet to be used). The free bets are the least fun, as it requires another bet to extract your money. I think I made in the region of £60, that's a day's wage :beer:

Can I ask a question of the parents out there? Do you budget for childrens' clothes? If so, how much (child/month) is appropriate to keep a child appropriately clad on a non-Baby G@p budget?

You won't need to buy much when they are little as you will be given lots of clothes. Perhaps just some plain vests and sleep suits. When my daughter was born we were given a ridiculous amount of clothes, luckily in a variety of sizes. As they get older you can clothe them very reasonably from Matalan, tesco, Asda. They all do reasonable quality kids clothes for reasonable price. School uniforms also can be bought from said places for much cheapness. It's the shoes!:eek::eek::eek: when mine were younger I always took them to be measured at Clarks. Now Im usually £80+ for 2 pairs of boys school shoes. Daughter lives in converse or Doc martins!So to answer your question I do try to budget but inevitably a growth spurt results in a £70 trip to Matalan plus sports direct for trainers. As the boys are now 10+ it's more sports direct for casual clothes.
I'd say start off with £10 per month, you shouldn't need it to begin with but it will build up until you do need it. We did put the family allowance aside and invested it. Now I'm glad we did as we now have a reasonable sum of money to pay for uni costs, driving lessons or tools if they decide to go into a trade. We are not giving it to the kids upfront, it will be on a needs basis!;)

Secret_Saving_Squirrel

I wouldn't budget anything for clothes. You will get lots of gifts when the little princess is born, and thereafter, when people ask what she wants for birthday or Christmas, say clothes. It has a double advantage that you don't buy clothes and neither are you inundated with mountains of plastic rubbish every birthday and Christmas.

Squirrel. (Mum of three and profligate buyer of clothes for three grandchildren! )

SmlSave

edinburgher wrote: »

Can I ask a question of the parents out there? Do you budget for childrens' clothes? If so, how much (child/month) is appropriate to keep a child appropriately clad on a non-Baby G@p budget?

Hi Edinburgher, I've just caught up on your diary and you're doing so well!

I second busymumofthree that shoes are what cost. I let everyone know that I was happy to accept second hand clothes and I get bin bags of clothes delivered for free! I then offer them on, sell and then charity.