Just caught up with everything. Was anyone on the TikTok live the other night? It went on for hours.
Re her responsibility around children I don't think it's fair to simplify to "play then bed". You're getting them up in the morning, doing breakfast, getting ready for school, and even if you're not giving evening meal there's still packed lunches to make, homework to oversee (she posted them doing phonics together the other day), school uniform and bags to prep etc. I used to drop my kids at breakfast club and have a childminder keep them til 6 many years ago and it was non stop. I've also seen stories of her getting Amber to sleep for hours so doesn't seem to get an evening at all hence staying up late. Well that's how I saw it. Although obviously TikTok lives for 3hours but that's part of the side hustle job requirement I guess...
Also with cleaner, she does 4 hours a week. Every day you have to wipe round, sweep up, every week you put bins out etc. I have a cleaner do 3hours a week just doing my floors, kitchen and bathroom proper scrub down. There's still daily cleaning up after yourself especially with kids. As someone who has a cleaner because of my mental health, I really don't like how everyone jumps on this like its a shocking and unreasonable luxury. Most working mums I know, or anyone with a disability or long hours or mental health problems or disability has a cleaner for a few hours a week for the big jobs. There's just not enough hours or energy in the day. Fair enough my PIP pays for it but she's open about her ADHD and her long working hours and being a single mum and I just think people go too hard on this.
£200 on a rug?? How?
I hadn't noticed lack of kids on her budgeting either, although I'm not good with spreadsheets and all that.
With regards to Mcdonalds she was saying that in the climate post wasn't she? I think she was referring to back when it was plastic toys and saying she got the book or just bought them a saver meal or whatever instead of the happy meal with toy. The kids definitely have Mcdonalds, she's had it on stories but I didn't take note what they had.
Regarding ex not paying his maintenence/mortgage, she talked about this on the live and said when she buys him out she will be remortgaging which will bring the payments down because they've paid more off on the house than they thought. So her mortgage payments will actually come down when she buys him out from what I understood. She also said that she can afford to pay the whole thing but doing so means she cannae pay extra off her debt so it'd just be interest payments this month. That's why she's paying the debt off before she buys him out even though she potentially could now. So she has say £1000 in her money and £500 from him (I'm making the figures up to explain what I mean) and the mortgage is like £1000 so she uses the spare £500 to pay off extra debt. But he hasn't paid his £500 so she has had to use her £1000 for the mortgage and has no £500 for extra debt so it'll just be minimum payments she makes.
But when the debt is paid off she won't need that £500 so she can pay the mortgage without him being involved and it'll come down to like £800 so she can put £200 in savings or reduce her working hours.
As I said, I've made those figures up tae make what I'm saying easier tae understand but that's what I understood from how she described it.