Ok, need your help to get dh to understand......

[PoppiesMum]

Due to dd's arrival, we are moving to a bigger house (with a bigger mortgage) very soon.

I am trying to get him to understand that we need to be a lot more careful with our money each month as we won't have so much spare cash at the end of the month to just fritter away ( as we do at the mo )

May be a bit nosey, but how much spare cash do you have at the end of each month, once all the bills have been paid? I need to show him that we won't be alone!!!

Thanks

At the mopment I have £27 to last me to the end of the month...

Not a penny. What comes in, goes right back out, with not 2p to spare...argh..its frigging annoying, but can only be grateful that theres not more going out than is coming in...still I will cherish the day when I have a £20 note in my purse to squander..and I can appreciate that that sounds pathetic. But when your purse is so light it almost flys away a £20 all of my own to spend would be heaven

read this and get him to read it too

When we moved 3 years ago, our mortgage went from £220 per month to £750 per month and now it's £888! We have hardly any spare cash and what there is we spend on kitting out the kids, a few beers for DH on a Friday and a few quid for me. No expensive holidays, nothing too frivolous but we get by and I love love love my house!

It's worth it but it was a shocker.

CharlieCat - LOVE the mortgage pig idea!