The most boring diary in the world...

foxgloves

I don't really see how you could take on an additional job. I think that as the lack of funds is a big worry, it's probably time to cut out all unessential spending, apart from the occasional treat. It is infuriating how this is all dragging on. You have no control over most of it. It's out of your hands. The only thing you can control is what you are spending yourself. You know all the common sense things like just how much the small amounts add up, so even small savings will help stop the debt getting quite so big until you get things sorted. I know all the waiting would be driving me mad, so you do have my sympathies. It seems a very unfair system.
F x

Honeysucklelou2

Legal costs are an eye-opener. I pay £200 a month towards mine, which at the moment are mounting up in credit ( can't get too excited though because a couple of hours of work will wipe it all out again). I did think that last time I had a statement from the solicitors, I could have a decent EF if that money was going aside into savings account.

I think a huge well done for managing any tutoring on top of full time teaching. I can't manage a full week and juggle everything else!

SpekySquarehead

A stress-free option that some MSE'ers do is surveys? You can do that whilst you relax at home and although it's not a lot of cash, it's something.

f0xh0les

Hey you.

Do you get child tax credit and if so, is it paid weekly? Knowing I have that coming in on a Friday stops me from panicking sometimes, ok it is £20, but there has been a time when I have had to feed us all on that amount.

Lay out your SOA
Have a cry, make a cup of tea and tell us all about it, and let the Auntie Foxes et al see what we can advise.
- and we could probably sort out a meal plan if your cupboards are heaving and you want a sub£20 shopping list for the rest of the month.

Oh yeah, and smile. It makes folk nervous.:rotfl:.

wannabee_in_credit

How I have survived so far this month is beyond me... I am just about at a big fat zero with my bank balance and there's still a week until payday. Good job that the cupboards are reasonably full, and I have already prewarned the children that we are going to have a very quiet half term indeed.
It has been very busy at work, juggling the job, the family, the finances etc, and then yesterday I was busy with my solicitor still trying to sort out the ongoing divorce issues. Unfortunately there's still a lot of expense to come but on the plus side, I've been granted a court order to get my ex's address so that he can finally be served with the papers that I've been desperately trying to get to him for months - and the judge has also awarded costs to me as well. Not that I'll ever see any of it but I'm pleased that the legal system is finally starting to recognise that my ex is being deliberately evasive when it comes to sorting out the separation. It has cost me literally thousands to date, and it can't go on for ever...

beanielou

Awesome news on the court order

wannabee_in_credit

I'm really pleased, but also really hoping that he hasn't figured out how to find me on this diary so that he's not reading this and doesn't know.

f0xh0les

Does it matter if he does? really? Will you serve the papers or have you got someone else to do it?


Enjoy half term, if you have heaving cupboards, then get one kid to make something each day - be it scones, or flapjacks, salad or somthing out of a packet, or toad in't 'ole. Life skills half term!!! Let them choose the menu.

You could also get dd to give you a makeover, have a home made face pack, condition your hair and bond.

Watch films, pop popcorn (or whatever you have) - I cannot believe one of the freeview channels has started showing Xmas films already - and with your newly discovered perfect technique, see what you could make as el cheapo gifts for people.

I was so jealous of all the people who jetted off to Spain at half term. I tell you now, when I am finished saving for this poxy extension (which will be marvellous, beautiful and magnificent) I am taking my kids on a fabulous holiday, where they will no doubt shoulder-barge each other, and sit on each other's heads, and bicker incessantly about how bored they are and that the wi-fi is brexit.


It is progress, congratulations

Honeysucklelou2

Great news that you can now get the information you need to serve the papers. Steps in the right direction.

SpekySquarehead

Overdue progress.

Keep on keeping on.