Hypno's "bursting with energy" diary.......

hypno06

I have just added up the amount we spent on petrol in the last month - £313.30 :eek:

No wonder we are so skint :rolleyes: That is a frightening amount - and that is how much we have spent, even though we have made an effort to use the motorbike/bus/two feet.

My new budget allows for £111.74.............hmmm.

pania

hypno06 wrote: »

I have kitkats !

You also had malteasers....:rolleyes: :rotfl:

doodledo_2

hypno06 wrote: »

I have just added up the amount we spent on petrol in the last month - £313.30 :eek:

No wonder we are so skint :rolleyes: That is a frightening amount - and that is how much we have spent, even though we have made an effort to use the motorbike/bus/two feet.

My new budget allows for £111.74.............hmmm.

:eek: That's a lot of cash and I'm embarassed to say it's about what we end up paying every month to run our two cars.

Petrol is the bane of my life. Unfortunately before our LBM we decided in our infinate wisdom to buy two large petrol guzzling cars :mad: . I really struggle to reduce the cost of our petrol spends with the forever increasing petrol prices.

hypno06

pania wrote: »

You also had malteasers....:rolleyes: :rotfl:

Never did.........:rolleyes:

doodledo - that is the amount for one car and a motorbike - we have sold the other car, so heaven only knows what we would have spent had we not done that, or if I had taken the car to work instead of getting the bus!!

Seaxwyn

Crikey that is a HUGE amount of petrol. Check that the car is tuned properly and there isn't a leak somewhere. We only spend £60-£80 a month and our car is big and thirsty. We do walk and cycle loads so car journeys under 3 miles are a rarity. Can you set your kids a challenge to walk or cycle to all their activities?

Gemmzie

That is a heck of a lot of petrol, maybe track mileage and petrol for a month, then see how much each mile costs you? I did and it really made me think about using the car for some journeys.

Keeping_Motivated

Is it a possibility to change your car to a smaller one?

I know you have to take the kids skiing coz you help out which then benefits you with free training etc but would it be more cost effective to let the kids make their own way there and you do a couple of clients from your previous self employment?

Here I am again trying to suggest stuff that I just know Hypno will already have thought of its just my nature to try and 'solve' a problem I annoy myself with it... I'm getting better honest but if I win the lottery there would be a lot of virtual peoples problem I would like to solve

When someone like you is trying SO SO hard and working SO SO hard its hard to read that you are struggling :rolleyes:

KM x

hypno06

Seaxwyn wrote: »

Crikey that is a HUGE amount of petrol. Check that the car is tuned properly and there isn't a leak somewhere. We only spend £60-£80 a month and our car is big and thirsty. We do walk and cycle loads so car journeys under 3 miles are a rarity. Can you set your kids a challenge to walk or cycle to all their activities?

They do walk as much as poss - they never get a lift to or from school, karate has been reduced down to once a week for them and they walk to that - they can't do anything about skiing because carrying a couple of pairs of skis in your pannier isn't really that easy .

I guess (well, I know) that the majority of the petrol is for ski-related trips - we have cut down the amount of races the children are doing this year, for that very reason, but it still adds up to a lot more than I had expected!! Plus, of course we have to run the student to her necessary meeting points/activities and some of these are way outside bus routes/times.......the price we pay for living in a village I suppose.

I used to live in a market town, and that was fab because you could walk everywhere. I very rarely used the car back then - lived and worked in the same town, and long before the children developed sporting interests, so the cost was next to nothing.

Oh well, at least by adding up the numbers, I have something to compare next month's usage on.....

OH has been told that pay will be in the bank this afternoon - I don't know why I am getting so worked up about this bloomin pay - it is only a small amount!! But somehow, that is not the point :mad:

hypno06

Keeping_Motivated wrote: »

Is it a possibility to change your car to a smaller one?

I know you have to take the kids skiing coz you help out which then benefits you with free training etc but would it be more cost effective to let the kids make their own way there and you do a couple of clients from your previous self employment?

Here I am again trying to suggest stuff that I just know Hypno will already have thought of its just my nature to try and 'solve' a problem I annoy myself with it... I'm getting better honest but if I win the lottery there would be a lot of virtual peoples problem I would like to solve

When someone like you is trying SO SO hard and working SO SO hard its hard to read that you are struggling :rolleyes:

KM x

Nope - for a start, we have just sold the smaller of our two cars.....

Also, as above, the children can't make their own way there - we have to transport up to 9 or 10 pairs of skis at a time.....even for a "low key" race, they take 4 pairs.........and for training, at least 2 pairs.....and it is frowned upon to leave the children there while you go off and do something else - if they have an accident, they need a parent there pretty pronto because ski accidents can be nasty.

thanks for the thought though.......:D

Seaxwyn

I'm keeping my fingers, toes and everything crossed that OH's pay arrives today.

I'm getting worked up about OH pay issues too - totally expecting my OH to receive £0 this month. my OH has done some work for 2 different employers this month, both of which have a history of not paying him because he has failed to do the necessary bureaucracy. I've been in nag overdrive this past week asking him to ring the relevant pay offices but he just won't do it.

Oops sorry, thread hijack..... but hope you feel the heartfelt sympathy coming from this direction.