To wonder how people afford to do anything much these days?

[Bouncingavocado]

I’m working most of the summer so have my dc with family / in childcare which is costly enough.

I’ve had a couple of days off this week and because I’m not getting much time with my dc I’ve taken them out and about and basically just burnt through cash.
I don’t even feel we’ve done that much?! I mean we could have gone cheaper but my older dc is 12 now and a bit old for the park / a picnic.
We’ve been out for lunch, been to the cinema, a trampoline park and to a local museum.
It is just as well I’m back as work next week tbh.

I don’t know how anyone affords to do anything these days. Everywhere we went was very quiet too which makes me worry that a lot of places aren’t going to survive because actually people cannot afford to go out in the way they used to.

Our Vue is £5.99, south east, also two for £7 with Vodafone at the mo, so 2 adults and 2 DC = £14, no parking charge, take homemade popcorn and 3 for £1 sweets from the Coop. Still less than £20 inc. petrol! We could go to the expensive £12-15/seat cinemas in the city centre and pay for parking but you have to be creative!

I think people feel they always need to be doing stuff. Most the time when my kids were little we would just play in the house in the winter, board games, arts, maiing videos Harder when they're teens but then they don't always want to do stuff anyway. Obvs it nice to go out together but we only did it every now and then.