Single, six kids and going to be debt free!

wishingthemortgaheaway wrote: »

The theme park tickets sound like a good investment especially as your eldest will take some of the others at times. And cars are generally just money pits (mines going in for its mot next week)
But to pay all that and to still reduce your debt is brilliant. You are nearly there.

Thanks yes and the bonus is that my dad is going to put £100 towards them as two of the kids have birthdays in May. So as soon as that money hits my account which should be later today, I will put half towards debt repayment and half towards holiday fund.

Yes cars are money pits really. Mine is a 7 seater so although its nearly 13 years old, it has done less than average mileage so it still works fine (fingers crossed). It isn't worth a great deal but to buy a new second hand car would cost a lot and I would probably still have to pay out for it! Good luck with your car's MOT, hopefully it won't be too expensive for you.

volcanoshano wrote: »

It's amazing how much we end up spending on presents! I tend to save amazon vouchers earned on swagbucks to spend on presents but always have to use real money as well!

I have had a few amazon vouchers to use for birthday presents but generally I have the money saved for their presents in a present fund so I haven't had to find the extra money this month. MY present fund gets £150 per month as I do have six kids to pay out for, but that will also include parties or days outs, presents for their friends as well and will include christmas. I will have some left over as I do tend to buy bargains throughout the year when I see things on offer.

Storm89 wrote: »

I second the theme park tickets comment, they'll be fab when the weather is nice . It's local so not much petrol plus like you say they only need to go a few more times and you've got your money back. You're so focussed it's amazing.

Yes the weather this last weekend wasn't that great but the eldest still went both Saturday and Sunday with her friends. Its even cheaper to go on the train than waste petrol and pay for parking I think. It cost me £7.15 return for me and all the kids to go on the train and the train station is only a two minute walk from my house. That's because I have a friends and family railcard so its probably cheaper to go by train than drive and pay for parking all day! Thanks, I try to be focused, at the moment, I just want to buy a house but know I'm not ready to do that yet. I just hope my dream house doesn't come up when I'm not ready!

So I shouldn't have said anything about my car as driving to work this morning it came up with battery charging fault and when I got to work, it now won't start again! So cue phone call to breakdown cover and they are picking it up and taking it to my local garage. I have also phoned the garage who said it sounds like an alternator problem and they are going to try and fix it before tomorrow lunchtime as that is when we go away. Just in case, I am going to look into prices for hire cars in case it isn't fixed! What a nightmare!