Babies, biscuits, boobs and budgetting!

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Snaggles wrote: »

Nah Len, mine are somewhere down near my knees.

So are mine

Snaggles

lennymfo wrote: »

Hey Mrs S, sounds like you are getting into the swing of things really quickly. Personally I like to 'check'out' the mothers on the school run and I bet you looked fab Len x

I check them out too, but probably not in quite the same way.

I look at the glamorous, smartly dressed, calm ones, and think 'how???', and then I look at the frazzled, scruffily dressed ones with wild hair and no make-up and think 'phew, I'm not the only one'! I like to think I fall somewhere in between, but if I'm honest, I'm swaying towards the latter on the days I'm not working! :cool:

Snaggles

lennymfo wrote: »

So are mine

*cough* They're not boobs.....

Snaggles

*Sigh* I knew it was all too good to be true - just checked our shopping credit card. :eek:

Our shopping and petrol budget is £350 per month. I used to look after this, but handed it over to Stu so that he didn't feel completely shut out of our family finances.

The bill is £550.....two hundred quid over budget!!! !!!!!!!!! :mad:

Asked him how it happened, and he just went:

Here endeth his control of the shopping budget.

Burlesque_Babe

in_debt_again_but_dealing_with_it wrote: »

(whispering now ... don't tell anyone but we don't have a bin in our kitchen we either use a carrier bag or take the rubbish straight out to the wheely bin omg I'm such a scum bag )!

Number 2 on the scum bag front then - I'm the same

Christ Snags, if your boobs are down to your knees, mine must be keeping my feet warm!

I don't think you should feel bad about buying new work clothes, it all helps with re-gaining confidence etc of going back to work.

Well, that was my excuse anyway.............:o :rotfl:

Gemmzie

Is that until the end of April Snags? :eek: Men!

hypno06

Darn it - I missed the 10000 post party!

Happy belated 10000 posts hun xxxxxx

Snaggles

We used to do the same with our rubbish too - in fact our bin is right outside the back door, so really we shouldn't even need a kitchen bin. It does look very pretty though. I cleaned and polished it lovingly when I cleaned the kitchen earlier!

Keren, yes, oddly enough I think it will help with confidence. I just feel like I can cope better when I feel smart and presentable.

Gemmzie - it's not quite until the end of April, our month runs from the 20th - 19th, so we have got another week's shopping to pay for yet. We don't need much luckily.

To be honest, I'm sort of relieved to be taking over control of it again, because I knew at the back of my mind that he wasn't keeping track of our spending, but I wanted to give him chance to prove he could successfully manage a budget. :rolleyes:

Thank goodness it's 'only' £200 - we haven't had the payment from the magazine yet, so we should be able to cover it from that, but it's annoying because I wanted to pay off some of the secured loan with that.

Snaggles

hypno06 wrote: »

Darn it - I missed the 10000 post party!

Happy belated 10000 posts hun xxxxxx

Thank youuuuu!

Have I been missing your updates? I haven't heard how the trip went yet.

*wanders off to find Hypno's diary*

Bunnyinthelights

Snags,
At least HE has a job...


(sorry to hark on about myself but it's already started...)