Is it just me (no I know it isn't) who struggles from month to month financially).
I get paid Friday and virtually everything is accounted for in bills etc.
Tax credit comes in and ex pays maintainance but I am still broke by the middle of the month. No overdraft thank goodness.
Today I was working out my cost of living per week.
Rent is paid from salary at beginning of month.
Electricity meter £20 a week (have one of those key meters here).
Petrol for work, school runs £20 a week
Dinner money and breakfast club money for the days I work are another £15 a week
... all before I put food on the table. I could drop the three school dinners a week which might save £6 a week but there really is nothing else I can drop.
Hideous - just hideous. Am now broke until Friday but am boiling up a chicken at the moment from a roast we had at weekend (exH bought the chicken) and reckon I can get at least another two days of meals from it (chicken risotto and then chicken soup). Thursday will be beans on toast and cheese.
House is freezing but putting the storage heaters on adds another £10-£15 per week to the electricity so am not usuing them.... just the plug in heaters to take the chill off.
Gosh"! And this is the woman who at 22 thought nothing of splashing out £80 on a pair of trousers lol - how life changes as you grow up and older.