I just did our new budget up, taking into consideration the new car loan now since we had to trade in both our old cars for a new BIG car to take the eventually 3 little monsters we have.
And at the end of my budget - we were $48 DOWN every week. So nearly $100 every fortnight was coming out of our savings - we are officially poor!
The only way I can make it work is to limit ourselves to $200 a week for food (with a bub on goats milk formula which is nearly $35 a tin up here a week) its going to be pretty cheap meat in this house (we've now done a meal plan with mince, sausages and chicken thigh fillets for soup).
No extras - no chocolate, no biscuits - not even my beloved ice cream. And I'm gonna have to go crappy cheap coffee (we do buy coles brand - but its the GOLD brand one which is pretty good considering) now we'll have to buy the normal one.. or heaven forbid - the savings brand.
I might just die
I give thanks to the universe that I use cloth nappies and wipes or else I might have to live on baked beans for the rest of my life!!
I know exactly how that feels Arimeh! We were exactly the same a couple of years ago. THen i discovered ebay!
Use ebay to sell anything you don't want or need!
I used to go to op shops with $50 and buy anything I thought would sell. From $50 I would easily make $100 in my pocket after fees etc. I ended up having a booming business! It was fantastic $ and came in every day which I just loved.
Now that I am working it's so much easier to make ends meet.
PB - its the only one that actually seems to be helping the constipation issues. But she might also be growing out of her problems? Dunno - not really in a rush to switch to cows milk formula cos its just so distressing hearing her scream when she poops
Urgh.. how depressing...
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I know exactly how that feels Arimeh! We were exactly the same a couple of years ago. THen i discovered ebay!
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