skellysgirl

If it helps I mapped my spending last year into categories, a full breakdown, I am a frugal kind of person though. It's not totally the best guide given we stayed home a lot last year and fuel was super cheap. PM me if you would like a copy. You seem to have your mind set on the move, persistence and hard work can make the difference. We moved out almost 7 years ago with a small child and two early teens. It's been great to show them a different world. they have done great from the move. We are starting to consider returning home, we have a reasonable life here but it is just not for us long term (the characterless suburbs, lack of choice, refusal to progress/innovate, and there is only so many times you can see a beach) the kicker our two elder kids are young adults and have decided their lives are here. So we are now in a limbo state.

Hi all I need a bit of help please, I am an expat educator currently completing my masters. I am trying to figure what the classroom will look like in the future so I can help shape the environments and tools we will use. I have put together a questionnaire and I was hoping you might have some time to complete it. It is 15 questions but should take 10 min or less. I do have a big base of vet sector educators so I was hoping to balance it out a little, and you can be based in any country. https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeOzyCG8AIpVibYgQwO-4cRDNW1Hd02QbnZsNDBPuaGKq_kKQ/viewform?usp=sf_link Thank you in advance. Skellysgirl

I think the pre paid seems expensive, but I think it's the way it's heading, I'm not in a rush I'll just have to stop in all the shops as I'm passing, they don't use a lot of min or calls but they eat data and it will cost me a fortune if I put them on contract.

im also on the hunt for a sim, ive just ordered a amaysim card for myself, im in bris. Has anyone come accross anything ideal for kids? mine were on capped contracts at home, so i didnt get big bills. Has anyone come across any here or any have any suggestions for teenagers?

Hi I'm in wynnum, would love a bayside meet too

Hi are waiting for our belongings to arrive and whilst chatting with a man in the game store yesterday he said he has heard reports of xbox ones going pop when you plug them in due to a power issue. We have a few xbox 360s and an xbox one i was planning on just getting a few adaptors and plugging them in via the adaptor, I am a little worried now, I haven't found much info other than a few people saying their US ones had popped due to voltage difference and a few other poms asking the same as me, i can't find any clear advice that UK ones are safe to plug in, nor of any UK ones popped. You can't buy the power brick on its own, from Microsoft, you can buy 3rd party from china but not keen on the idea. Has as anyone else brought Uk xbox one and used it in oz yet?

im getting one of each, i was planning 2 large, 1 for the boxes and one for the furniture, i marked out the space on the garage floor, I was surprised how much i actually fitted i only need a med for the boxes i think i toyed with the idea of just 1 big one, and binning stuff, but i thought the extra £700 means i can just shove everything in...i think, im confused too

im thinking about 2 move cubes rather than a container, prices is just under 2k for 2 large move cubes, and then maybe just under 1k for customs, so seems to be cheaper than container prices Im thinking one with beds and white goods, and one for boxes.

hi minag, im a GD and i already have my visa for canberra, we received the visa in sept, and we have to be there by august, hopefully leaving end of june

Basically you have a qualification in one thing, but experience in the other. If you want to go through as a EE, you already have the degree, so you just need experience in it...or you find a job and go the sponsored route If you want to come though as a telecoms technician then you need to see if that is on the list and if so do you meet all the requirements. Realistically it dosent matter how skilled you are or if you are good at what you do, as if you aint on the list there is little you can do. I think you need to figure which route will get you there on the visa which is best suited to your long term plans. i am probably not the best person to give advice on that Hopefully you will get your sponsorship through ACT, good luck

Or oz even!

Great news now lets all get to ox

My kids just had asda or primark shoes...they dont walk funny, nor are their feet harmed, infact my son was a runner. Clarks is too expensive for me

Unfortunately, if we want to get a visa for their country, we have to answer the questions they ask, and provide the documents they request. We need them, not the other way round. That is not your CO's problem, and they are just following the process that is in place. Has your CO actually suggested you falsify documents?

thats not the COs fault, as applicants, we make every effort to provide the requested. Is your CO actually suggesting you falsify documents? that seems odd and i would have thought it would get a CO in a lot of trouble

Hi Ifran, Do you have a degree as a EE, have you any further experience, such as HV etc, is there any chance of further training, as i know there are good opportunities over there for HV, I cannot understand how there is not sponsorship for such an generally in demand occupation?

Your right, how you cut your cloth, can have a big impact on comfortableness. I also feel it can be easy to feel richer than you are and it makes you spend easier, and then when the reality hits or circumstance changes, life becomes tight. My husband says i am too stingy at times, but its that stingness which has got us ahead. I know i sound smug, its not that, im just proud of us for managing to do so well in a tough environment. I do feel though, even though we have always been fairly careful, the last few years have become tough, our general running costs have shot up, despite the fact we are making every effort to bring them down, just fuel, energy, and food alone are becoming worrying. i do feel lately a little more would help.

We earn, just a little more than minimum wage, even with us both working, we only earned around 27K a year, i felt more than comfortable on that, we managed to pay childare for our youngest, run an almost new car, and have a holiday. The secret i feel is to be not expect everything. I don't dress my kids head to toe in next. I saved up and bought my car outright, but bought a small one which is cheap to run. I do not have a fancy house on a nice estate kitted out to look perfect. Basically i don't keep up with the jonses! Also i learnt quickly early on, don't get into debt, if i cant afford, i don't buy, i make do, we can afford our bills, but when you add credit, alongside running costs, then it becomes a problem. Yes we live in the north, where everything is much cheaper, but i have plenty of friends on much more than me, but cant afford to live, all because they feel they need stuff. I don't understand it I don't know what id do with 60K, so to me 60k pa is very rich, but as someone said, each to their own

Its the CO's job to check everything and everything, if they feel something needs clarifying or further investigating they must do that.

congrats

english "you need two new front bearing" fords

saving the best till last!...plus you can be the one to end the thread, you did start it

all the fords i have owned in the past have had problems.

mags you have started me looking now, this one is nice for the price, even though i hate fords

i have 2 items i am bit unsure of, the bottom gill of our weber BBQ, its rusty due to ash and water being on it, should i bring it through? its never gonna clean perfect, and also my hammock which is powder coated on the outside but has rust on the inside of the tubes and at the edge of the tubes. should i just just clean them and hope for the best?