Not done too badly today, although almost all the spends have been on junk food £4.97 on Happy Meals for me & DS1, then £3.60 for my DSes plus DS2's friend to have an ice-cream at the park, it was just too hot not to! On the plus side, I arrived home to a bag of clothes for DS1 (& then DS2, naturally) from my Dsis & she has loads of money & her 'cheap' stuff is from John Lewis, so am pleased with that Also got some PE shorts for DS1 from a mum at the school, 2 pairs for £2. They have a slight pull at the back, but you can barely see, plus I don't know how long he'll be at that school, as he is down on the waiting list for the village school, if we ever move!
The move is a bit nightmarish, I think we started looking in around October last year, so It's been dragging on! The tenant has apparently been looking for other accommodation, but been turned down. So, she needs to be kicked out by bailiffs in order to be unintentionally homeless, or they won't rehouse her as a priority. It's tough all round, but it does strike me that something needs to be done about renting in this country - in so many other countries it's the norm & really easy to do, yet we seem to make a big hash of it! And don't get me started on the schools' admission system, which pretty much means that should a child move between putting in a primary school application in January & starting school in September, that child is not in any way guaranteed a school place where he will be living...
Welcome to all the newbies!
That British Gas thing sounds like a bit of a con, tbh. Unless you save all your baking, washing, tumble-drying, hoovering, ironing till a Saturday. But then often that's the day when people want to be out doing things
Thatsinteresting don't talk about Christmas! It feels like ages still
Exasperated lucky you going to Belgium! Whereabouts are you going? I lived in Brussels for a year & loved it!