£29,303...Enough is enough!

Starmummy

The jam sounds lovely WK.
I always feel the need to become a home body this time of year. I spend far too much energy day dreaming of spending afternoons in the kitchen knocking up cottage pies and baked goods with a babe on hip.
SC was 10 last week and it's hit me really hard emotionally. I really do want to be a mummy again but trying to work out how we do that with Mr S has been a bit of a back and forth exercise.

WelshKitty85

The pear and blackberry jam is delicious starmummy. I love baking and batch cooking but please don't be fooled by the snippets of life I post on here. Being a working mum is hard work, a constant juggling act, and full of guilt - not spending enough time with the children, not spending enough time with DH, not feeding them the right foods...

savingholmes

Yeah - we need to ditch the guilt. The standards have risen phenomenally - fuelled by Disney style moves rather than real life possibility. I like a photo going around fb of a pipe smoking 6 year old miner - the caption reads something like - every time I look at that photo I feel so much better about my parenting...

WelshKitty85

Current totals are:

Hitachi - £7,951.46
Barclaycard - £5,479.55
FD - £6,718.75

Total = £20,149.76

I've still got a BC payment to go out, which will bring me within £25 of the £20,000 barrier.

savingholmes

So close to the £20k barrier - that's fab. Close to a third of your debt paid off now.

WelshKitty85

Current totals are:

Hitachi - £7,951.46
Barclaycard - £5,354.55
FD - £6,718.75

Total = £20,024.76

janb5

Hiya,

I haven`t read the entire dairy so forgive me if you`ve already done this but you might like to consider a water meter which brought the costs down massively.

Very impressed with your diary and what you`ve achieved.

WelshKitty85

janb5 wrote: »

Hiya,

I haven`t read the entire dairy so forgive me if you`ve already done this but you might like to consider a water meter which brought the costs down massively.

Very impressed with your diary and what you`ve achieved.

Hi, yes I have thought about it as we've always had a meter until we moved to this house. We're now a family of 5 though, the children are beginning to take longer in the shower and we use a lot of water in the garden over the warmer months. I've used the online calculator and it says we'd be worse off with a meter.

WelshKitty85

Just when things start looking up...DH isn't being kept on at work again. They haven't even given him a reason, just "you haven't been here long enough for us to have to give a reason". So, after spending last night deciding whether to use savings to pay down some debt, I'm now calculating how long we can survive DH being out of work.

mark55man

OMG that's terrible and so callous

wishing you well and lucky you have some cushion to give you a little breathing space