Just want a place to have a little moan. I know that health is more important, we have a roof over our heads, etc etc. We don’t actually have the virus and all on that front is well.
But. This whole thing has hit us in another way we didn’t expect. We’ve not had much cash to splash In recent years since doing up our house. No nice holidays, no new bikes for the kids, etc.
An investment was due to mature soon and so we’ve been busy planning it all. Ok so it was linked to the stock market, blah blah, but a really stable long-term investment, which should have been fine. And we were going to pay some things off and have a bit of fun.
And now with corona the stock markets have dropped all of a sudden and the value has pretty much been wiped out. We’ve waited so long for this and we worked so hard for that money. I feel so sad. I’m not quite sure how to tell the kids that the bikes and holiday won’t be happening after all. Not yet.
I suppose the silver lining is that no one wants to fly anywhere at the moment anyway.
Is anyone else feeling the financial impact who can relate to this?
As I said at the start, I know we’re lucky and that health is more important, but this isn’t something I can moan about to anyone IRL so please be kind in your comments, no “diamond shoes” etc. And yes I know we can get secondhand bikes, but for once the kids wanted new ones, not hand-me-downs.