Christmas Pay

Spendless

My husband gets paid on the last working day of each month and it doesn't change in December. I find him getting paid on New Years Eve a difficult one, as there is a more expensive grocery shop the week before to include the turkey, any last minute items not thought of and any socialising between Christmas and New Year, mainly being asked by people who have been paid early.

January, however is far easier for us, though everyone else is skint and doing nothing much!


It was far worse in the days when kids were small and I didn't work at all. Now I work ad-hoc and am thankfully in full-time next week to help as I get paid weekly in arrears. if I was permanent full-time I'd get paid 2 weeks early in December and 1 week early in Jan.

lucystardust87

I don't like it either! Makes January feel so long.

moomoomama27

Can people not just pretend it's not there and treat it like any other month?

Perhaps it because I budget well each month for everything, nothing changes and our spare money doesn't either, so I know exactly what I have to spend.

I get paid in December the last day if the month, but my husband gets paid a week or so earlier, makes no difference, wouldn't think I had extra money!!??

SeduLOUs

We get paid a week early but it's more for the convenience of the payroll staff not needing to be around to run it right on top of Xmas.

As a favour to the staff we are also doing a week early in Jan (we normally get paid on last Friday of the month).

Because Feb is such a short month it means it avoids the 6 week wait between pay days.

Personally, I just hold onto it until my 'normal' payday, but at least it's in my account a few extra days for my Santander interest.

DD265

Just found out we're getting paid on the 29th. That works well for me because I am skint (thankfully some cashback came in so have withdrawn from Quidco) but it's only two days earlier than normal so shouldn't hit me hard in January.

Unfortunately I'm just not that good at budgeting.