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For my husband to earn £65,000 per annum and we still can't afford to live in this bloody country!!

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winegoddess · 06/11/2008 12:03

Mortgage has gone up, electric has gone up, 5 mouths to feed, 3 children to clothe etc etc and month after month is a bloody struggle. Am fed up with straping money together when my husband earns a good wage and we should be able to get by! I now need to search for a way of 'me' bringing in some money but with a young baby at home and 2 others at school i am at a loss as to how! Please give me some job ideas or ways to make money!!

OP posts:
exasperatedmummy · 06/11/2008 20:54

"I'm really disappointed in the way people are treating the OP - self-harming and panic attacks are apparently funny now, "Lol"
"

Chequers? Where is this spoken about, certainly not funny , i must have missed that.

chequersandchess · 06/11/2008 20:56

By expatinscotland on Thu 06-Nov-08 18:59:49
'Please take into account that WG has posted as well about panic attacks and anxiety as well as self harming - I understand about the current economic climate but please think before you post. In fact I think this thread should be pulled.'

LOL.

This place is turning into Bounty.

angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 20:58

expat wants to watch that her bile does'nt come out in her milk.

suey2 · 06/11/2008 20:59

very well put chocolatedot.

mrsruffallo · 06/11/2008 20:59

I think the lol was at the suggestion that the thread should be pulled, not at the self harming etc

Hulababy · 06/11/2008 21:00

I thnk many people have failed to grasp the point the OP was making - or rather many have chosen to misunderstand the point that was being made.

exasperatedmummy · 06/11/2008 21:00

totally misssed that - i guess it matters not though, the OP seems to have gone. I did lay into her a bit to be fair as I was like, £65K and you STILL can't manage. But when you think about it, by rights they should be comforable, they are not and thats pants. I do think the total flaming has been OTT though.

angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 21:02

"I do think the total flaming has been OTT though."

Why flame someone and then back track?

chequersandchess · 06/11/2008 21:02

I think it's been vile.

This is the first thread I've seen that has seriously made me want to leave, but I'm still breastfeeding a LOT and daytime TV is crap

angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 21:04

Hehe, you'll have to stay then.

ohIdoliketobebesidethe · 06/11/2008 21:05

My dad read somewhere that at 34 yrs old (on average) people have the most expensive year of their life.

Am 34 next year and it sure feels right to me. Perhaps OP is 34. How many of the flamers are 34 out of interest?

morningpaper · 06/11/2008 21:05

I AM 34

is it A Sign

DandyLioness · 06/11/2008 21:07

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angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 21:07

I'm not 34 but then I'm not a flamer.

ohIdoliketobebesidethe · 06/11/2008 21:08

Ah - but perhaps you're not a flamer because you too are in your most expensive year?

exasperatedmummy · 06/11/2008 21:08

angels, you are very biligerent you know . I reckons you like a good barney so ya do!!!

I back tracked ages ago actually - nothing wrong with saying something, then thinking on and realising you were a bit OTT and saying so.

So there!!! [poking tongue out]

angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 21:09

Shakes bare bottom at exasperated.

noonki · 06/11/2008 21:10

I too am 34 and now it ALL MAKES SENSE

though am sure next year is going to be worse, will have lost my job by then

Ronaldinhio · 06/11/2008 21:10

we earn more than that and don't have loads of cash
by the time we pay childcare and mortgage we have spent £4100 b efore we consider anything else

flame away

exasperatedmummy · 06/11/2008 21:10

I only saw winegoddess OP, but there are so many pages to this now......

Really, its never good to talk about Politics or religion

Sex on the other hand..........EM quietly directs the OP to some bum sex threads, she needs cheering up.

angelswithdirtyfaces · 06/11/2008 21:11

Oh I - I dunno - we always seem to be having an expensive year.

exasperatedmummy · 06/11/2008 21:12

That is quite an ironic x post there angels!!!!! I hope you don't think im going to be doing you any favours in THAT department!

Im starting to think you are a namechanger, your style is familiar........

suey2 · 06/11/2008 21:14

I won't flame you ronaldinho! Our monthly childcare and mortgage bill is 7K.

mrsruffallo · 06/11/2008 21:15

Did I miss something?
I don't think this has been a particularly nasty thread.

BlueBumedFly · 06/11/2008 21:16

Feck me suey2, and I thought our outgoings were bad..... do you feel the need to drink much gin?

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