March 2014 - Thread 6 - Spending more time with pornographers and less time with our heads in the toilets hurrah!

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That's amazing Pram! Highly addictive, as I want to see what every day looks like!

What's a going home outfit?

Oh, I've got a book with daily updates. It's a bit annoying.

Oh, that website is taken from the book!

Fox its generally a million times easier keeping a newborn in sleepsuits for the first few months. A going home outfit is just a cute, impractical outfit for photos of them coming home from hospital, and to keep as a memento :)

I am so not putting my baby in a 'going home outfit'.

Fox, re temping jobs (or any other job for that matter): if it doesn't pay the equivalent of my dole and housing benefit then, no, quite frankly, I won't consider it

...I was a civil servant for eight years before going to uni and the mere thought of working in an office full of women again makes me shudder. Inane wittering about their children, diets and Zumba makes your average office worker a crashing bore.

What would be your ideal job Prammy?

I suspect there may be an element of that pram!

Oh, the going home outfit is for the baby! Right. I didn't even know there was a difference between sleepsuits and babygros. I am so in over my head here.

Fair enough pram. I'd be the same. When I was unemployed I couldn't get any benefits so I had to grab anything going.

Fox I plan to go 2nd hand for as much as possible so trying to get organised, so I can start the hunt for the most bargainus items!!

Lyra I was planning to go for half and half newborn and 0-3 as I have had lots of children with newborn sleepsuits never even worn but it is good to get some reassurance that its the right course of action. I won't be able to return anything but I guess I can put stuff back on ebay if it is little used.

comms I have a buggy and a pram (my pram from when I was small, old silver cross type) but I don't plan to use them much, I don't tend to use the buggy unless essential, hate the boomin' things I'm like a learner buggy pusher when I get behind one!! Give me a child in a sling any day, I'm much safer from the point of view of the general public!

lib feel free!

No Maybe Number one. I have gear 2nd hand from old bosses (stuff they had finished with and I asked if I could purchase from them for any sprogs I may have one day) plus bits I for use at work (I work as a childcarer)

Pram Ignore away!!

Rock Thanks your my new guru, exactly the kind of advise I was looking for. I have been looking at the coats with the zip off panel at the front dual purpose pregnancy/banywearingness. No going home outfit as hopefully I will already be at home, if all goes to plan, if not just a sleepsuit for me (I don't know what I'll put the baby in though!!). I will be getting formula though as I live 20 mins (40mins round trip) from the nearest 24 supermarket/ Maternity unit. I know it will mean I will need will power but with the potential for me to be quite poorly after birth (I have M.E.) I feel the risk of using it too soon outweighs the hour it will take to get the formula. I'm pretty determined to breast feed though.

F&T

I've worked in an office full of women too and it was JUST like that pram. Bloody awful. There was so much bitching behind each others backs too. And complaining about being fat but then eating lots of cake. My office is mostly men now. And I got my own office. With a view of the mountains.

Following the comment I made to Lyra there is meant to be children I cared for I haven't had any of my own yet...eekk!

Marbie, well, you see, upon leaving rehab I decided to 'opt out of life'. I needed zero stress, chaos or temptation and so spent the first year out of the programme learning to live with the massive void left from alcohol. The following year found me unemployable and that has pretty much remained the case since. Ideally I don't want to work, I really don't. And I don't give a shit about 'sponging' off the government. I spent my entire life working and paying taxes until I became an alcoholic. I've done the whole career thing, the uni thing and spent all my twenties and some of my thirties believing all that bullshit that says career is all-important and family isn't. However, this house move is going to prove nigh on impossible for th'usband to negotiate financially all by himself. Tsk.

I would happily laze on a supermarket checkout all day long shouting at and berating customers but they're only taking on student and grannies. It is now six years since I was in employment and it is such a huge gap to overcome on a CV or in interview. This is yet another First World Problem, though. I'm not going to die, am I?

*spongeing!!

Fox, yes, yes, yes to Those Women who are on perpetual diets but demolish four Victoria sponges before lunch. Office do's; badly-dressed women; badly-dressed men; power-crazed female bosses; flexi-time; sandwiches for lunch; mugs with World's No.1 Mum written on them; limp plants stuck in corners with dust on them; women called Sue; clock-watching. Ugh. Fuck that.

It doesn't have to be life or death though to be a real problem though Pram. Looking for work is really crap. Really, the only thing worse than having a job is not having one

I wouldn't work if I didn't have to either. But flippin 'usband can't even keep his wife! I don't know, what is the world coming to!

I know, it's crap, but I need to pay for the lovely house that I'm never in cuz I'm always at work...

There's a quote that goes 'normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work, driving through traffic in a car that you are still paying for, in order to get to the job that you need so you can pay for the clothes, car and the house that you leave empty all day in order to afford to live in it.'

Fox, yes to all of the above. The thing is, I love not working. I really do. I do not miss the rat-race, the materialism, the pressure. I'm going to have to pull my finger out, though

I don't do well in offices because I am shouty and imperious. I do well with people with special needs, delinquent youths or the mentally ill. Much more on my level.

Fox, sleepsuits and babygroes are the same thing.

OK, that's something Lyra. I'll get a book and learn the rest

Sorry Pram I've been decidedly uninspiring in your job search there.

I'm not having twins! !!

Oh, Jol, you're back! I take it everything's ok then??