There are months throughout the year that we know as a family are more expensive than others. Generally speaking it is the autumn and winter months that we need to make sure that we are prepared for. With Roo and Tigger’s birthdays in early November, followed by a procession of family birthdays throughout December including my own and then with Christmas on top of all that it can work out to very expensive.
This year however we seemed to have had our most expensive month of year… August 2014 will go down in our family history as Black August.
Crash, bang, wallop!
The month started badly as our family car was written off just days before I was due to drive home to my Mum’s with Roo and Tigger for their two weeks holiday with her. After many phone calls backwards to the different insurers we finally managed to get a hire car (a rather lovely SEAT Leon – if only we had the money to buy one of those).
Beautiful bathrooms
Our long awaited bathroom renovations took longer and cost a little more than we were anticipating, although the finished result made it all worth it. With a dual flush toilet I have been trying to teach Roo about how to save water, advising her which flush is for what erm.. function. Personally I’m loving that we spent a little and got a bath/shower mixer tap, washing everyone’s hair using the shower attachment is so much easy than a jug… no more tears at bath time now.
Boiler bother
To round off the month, the day after our bathroom fitters had left we realised that we had no hot water. After getting our usual gas man out to take a look it originally looked like a relatively easy fix, sadly these things are never easy and it would require at least two new parts to fix, plus the fact that our make of boiler was no longer made and parts were in short supply we had to replace our boiler at an unexpected cost of £1400! Although I can console myself with the fact the new boiler is better at saving energy than the previous one. It has a fabulous feature that allows me to tell it if we are away on holiday so it doesn’t heat an empty hose.
I’m hoping that out usual expensive months of the year turn out to be a little cheaper this year to make up for all the money we have already spent – I can live in hope!
Do you have months that are more expensive than others?
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