"New baby forces sale"
Discussion
Mr E said:
stormy22 said:
We'll be going down the route of 'New baby forces Mustang Purchase' My wife LOVES the idea....seriously!
I'd highly reccommend trying to put the offspring in the seat in the back in the dark then it's raining first tbh15 years ago, I was putting my 3 babies into baby seats in the back of my 2 door cortina -and that had a modified Mk2 Escort 6 point Rollcage too. You can ALWAYS make it work...so we will... besides after being back in UK for a year, we will get a family wagon too (discovery or pajero or something like that) but Mustang has to come first or something is bound to get in the way. I have been driving for 21 years, a father for 17 years, I've waited long enough, its due !!!
Edited by stormy22 on Saturday 29th December 14:51
My wife demanded that I sell my MX-5 when she was pregnant...
...and buy a TVR S2!
As our main cars we have a Saab 9000 and a Puma. The Puma has been perfectly practical but the boot lip is high and the aperture not huge so it is getting traded for a warm Mazda 3 in the New Year.
The TVR is great fun but just isn't getting used much. I don't like having money tied up in a car so I may end up selling up next year. Possibly trade that and the Saab 9000 for an e39 Touring with suitably large engine. The 9000 is a big car but just went away over Christmas and the car was *full*. Travel system/cot/some toys/bouncer/changing bag plus a couple of clothes changes for us and that was that! Sure, you can fit it in a smaller car but it's a lot of effort...
Obviously the 900 stays tucked up in the garage!
...and buy a TVR S2!
As our main cars we have a Saab 9000 and a Puma. The Puma has been perfectly practical but the boot lip is high and the aperture not huge so it is getting traded for a warm Mazda 3 in the New Year.
The TVR is great fun but just isn't getting used much. I don't like having money tied up in a car so I may end up selling up next year. Possibly trade that and the Saab 9000 for an e39 Touring with suitably large engine. The 9000 is a big car but just went away over Christmas and the car was *full*. Travel system/cot/some toys/bouncer/changing bag plus a couple of clothes changes for us and that was that! Sure, you can fit it in a smaller car but it's a lot of effort...
Obviously the 900 stays tucked up in the garage!
NiceCupOfTea said:
My wife demanded that I sell my MX-5 when she was pregnant...
...and buy a TVR S2!
As our main cars we have a Saab 9000 and a Puma. The Puma has been perfectly practical but the boot lip is high and the aperture not huge so it is getting traded for a warm Mazda 3 in the New Year.
The TVR is great fun but just isn't getting used much. I don't like having money tied up in a car so I may end up selling up next year. Possibly trade that and the Saab 9000 for an e39 Touring with suitably large engine. The 9000 is a big car but just went away over Christmas and the car was *full*. Travel system/cot/some toys/bouncer/changing bag plus a couple of clothes changes for us and that was that! Sure, you can fit it in a smaller car but it's a lot of effort...
Obviously the 900 stays tucked up in the garage!
I was ching an old Top Gear the other day....well, old new styl (2002 I think) That was about Saab's and the typical Saab driver. swanky, roll neck, tinted glasses,chiselled chin type person....is that you?...and buy a TVR S2!
As our main cars we have a Saab 9000 and a Puma. The Puma has been perfectly practical but the boot lip is high and the aperture not huge so it is getting traded for a warm Mazda 3 in the New Year.
The TVR is great fun but just isn't getting used much. I don't like having money tied up in a car so I may end up selling up next year. Possibly trade that and the Saab 9000 for an e39 Touring with suitably large engine. The 9000 is a big car but just went away over Christmas and the car was *full*. Travel system/cot/some toys/bouncer/changing bag plus a couple of clothes changes for us and that was that! Sure, you can fit it in a smaller car but it's a lot of effort...
Obviously the 900 stays tucked up in the garage!
We don't have children yet but it's not far away. Last year we changed both cars. A Pug 106 GTi became a mk2 Ford Focus ST 5dr, and a BMW e36 coupe became an e36 touring. So from the fit for purpose job things are good.
Earlier thisnyear i bought my Westfield, which my wife loves. Even if kids mean it doesn't get used much (it doesn't anyway!) the very slow depreciation and cheap insurance make it cheap to keep doing nothing. Her low salary will mean giving up work is the only option for us so the car will have to go if things get tight, but fingers crossed! Our future children need some fun cars around if they are to grow up properly
Earlier thisnyear i bought my Westfield, which my wife loves. Even if kids mean it doesn't get used much (it doesn't anyway!) the very slow depreciation and cheap insurance make it cheap to keep doing nothing. Her low salary will mean giving up work is the only option for us so the car will have to go if things get tight, but fingers crossed! Our future children need some fun cars around if they are to grow up properly
stormy22 said:
I was ching an old Top Gear the other day....well, old new styl (2002 I think) That was about Saab's and the typical Saab driver. swanky, roll neck, tinted glasses,chiselled chin type person....is that you?
Do you believe everything that comes out of Clarkson's mouth? 
(No, I'm not an architect!)
aww999 - "Unfortunately, I gave up my job and she kept hers, so I have absolutely no say in the matter; and her buying an Ultima for me to play with is quite unlikely."
aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with s
tloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.
Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with s
tloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
aww999 said:
aww999 - "Unfortunately, I gave up my job and she kept hers, so I have absolutely no say in the matter; and her buying an Ultima for me to play with is quite unlikely."
aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with stloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.
Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
Haha. aww999 sounds like even more of a whiny baww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with s
tloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
h now!aww999 said:
aww999 - "Unfortunately, I gave up my job and she kept hers, so I have absolutely no say in the matter; and her buying an Ultima for me to play with is quite unlikely."
aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with stloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.
Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
Actual ROFL, even if it isn't real.aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with s
tloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
Silver said:
NiceCupOfTea said:
Jesus Christ, keep the dirty laundry in private, this is not the place 
Oh come on. If it is actually real, it makes a change to see someone bleating about being hard done by get owned.Don't even get me started on her checking up on what he's posted - does she check his text messages as well!?
aww999 said:
aww999 - "Unfortunately, I gave up my job and she kept hers, so I have absolutely no say in the matter; and her buying an Ultima for me to play with is quite unlikely."
aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with stloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.
Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
If thats real you got a very generous bread knife there!!aww999 - hello, this is your wife here. A few points I would like to clarify.
1. You haven't got an Ultima because we already own three cars, my one and then your two - the 4litre Lexus which I pay to fill up at £130 a time (I do love it though) and the MR2. We have no room in the garage. I have not asked you to sell the MR2, but you said you wanted to. Sell it and buy an Ultima if you want, I don't care, it's your money! (How much are they??)
2. Thank you for giving up your job to help me with the baby when I had severe PND. I'm sorry it has ruined your car-owning ambitions. But as you said at the time you earned naff all anyway and hated your job so it wasn't all bad.
3. We don't have any spare money for me to buy you any more cars. I pay for everything you spend every month, however much it is. I have to nag you for you to tot it all up and give me a figure. I pay the petrol, insurance and road tax on two cars and nearly all the household bills, for some reason you want to pay for the Sky and Broadband yourself although I have offered! I pay for your part time masters at £1500 a semester, and paid several grand to put you through an OU degree before that - gladly, as it is an investment in both our futures. Because you go to lectures two days a week I am also paying £540 a month in nursery fees, plus your travel to uni, and mine to work, which as you know is extortionate. I am part time so we can split the raising of our son more equitably, but that's meant things are even more stretched. As you know, I spend very little on myself because I don't think that's right - all my spare cash goes on you, our son or the household, or cheap holidays for us both. Any money I do get goes straight into savings for the two goals WE AGREED - a better house and possibly also a better education for our son, because yours was in your own words, lousy and you are still paying for that now.
Do you honestly believe you get NO say in where the money goes, and that I am swanning around with s
tloads of cash, not giving it to you to spend on cars because I am a selfish heartless cow? Come on, FFS.Going to bed now, can you lock up downstairs? Thanks xxx
I have never understood this 'I pay for, you pay for' crap. Husband and wife is just that. My wife and I have always had the 'This is our money, who-ever earns what, it just goes into one big pot'. Thats wha marriage and partnership is all about. If she wants something, we briefly discuss it, she gets it. If I want something, same thing happens, never a problem.
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