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

[winegoddess]

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!!

she changed her name yesterday to slag off lone parents ronaldinho.

my friend got married at babington house

v v v stylish and not for the likes of us

WWW, I'm in the NW (Cheshire) and believe me it is no cheaper than London. We moved up from Surrey last summer (having lived in town before that) and it's just as expensive up here, I wish it was cheaper and I didn't have a 4k mortgage for a modest 4bed.

Don't forget harissa paste MP, when I lived in the countryside supermarkets were full of Londoners saying "oh fgs, WHERE is the HARISSA paste, hmm?"

lol swedes at runnymede

oh balls sorry

why though?

wtf

really though i don't get that at all

didn't realise mumsnet was so cutting edge.

although surely theres nothing wrong with earning 65k and not living in the country. Just think about the wine and gin you could buy with it, who care's where you live!

lol at runnymede as well

omg at £4k mortgage for a 4 bed house, how depressing. I believe you about Cheshire being expensive too.

As the person that started this thread, i would like to thank you all for your comments, although some are slightly spiteful. It is interesting to see how some people trawl through your previous threads and start to make assumptions that they know you. My initial comments were not to gloat about how much my dh earns but simply to make the point that we study hard at school, college and university to get a good job. we then work hard to progress our careers to provide a better quality of living for our families and children but as we all try to work to live, we find ourselves more drawn into living to work. My comments around this country are my exasperation of the excessively high taxes we pay on our earnings, our savings, our essentials such as food, gas, electricity, telephone and clothes all so that the government can squander our hard earned cash on headline grabbing initiatives and white elephants such as the infamous Millenium Dome. Last but not least, the tax payer now finds itself bailing out the banks who still insist on paying their employees excessive and unwarranted bonuses. It is my honest belief that this is a first class country full of hard working families who are represented and led by 3rd world corrupt and greedy leaders.

i remember looking for capers in belfast..they probably thought the same thing

WG, I think your biggest problem was choosing the AIBU topic to post in.

uggggh

yanowbu

ask suey2 for some sherry and get on with it

life could be considerably worse

Um... but isn't your husband being paid 65k by the government?

is your husband david cameron?

Well said Winegoddess.

When I got flamed as a newbie people looked through my previous posts and my profile and got really, horribly personal. MN can be a scary place but if you are ballsie it's fun.

I think the advice about posting in the evening if you want rich people to answer is prob good.

LOL at the millenium dome.

That was ages ago.

Don't be silly. I live in Nigeria and compared to here, the UK's govt is a paragon of virtue, not a corrupt third world govt.

You def get a difference posting in the eve rather than the morning!

I can remember one poster posting in the daytime about how her husbands business wasn't doing v well and he'd promised he would facilitate her being at home with her dd etc.etc.

In the daytime everyone sympathetic "oh he should provide etc.etc."

In the eve it was "get a bloody job then"

Different lives, different perspectives

yanowbu

my fave new acronym!

Of course you do ! During the day I'm at work earning money !!!!

i thank you

Winegoddess - Welcome back and welcome to Mumsnet. Mumsnet is a lovely place most of the time.

4k mortgage for end terrace yorkshire here!

i agree with the op if she has big mortgage

myredcardigan wow!! did I read that right? we live in Cheshire too but our mortgage is nowhere near that.
I can believe it tho. Ours is still quite high. MIL was shocked! dh's and my joint salaries don't come to the OPs dh, but on paper we should really be better off than we are. We don't spend much on holidays, nights out etc but it still seems to go, mortgage and bills are high (similar to WWW's figures in an earlier post).
dh and I do consider ourselves lucky to still be in our jobs... I keep fearing for mine as it's in the financial (banking) sector...