looking at stupid flats to rent because I really feel awful at the thought of Elijah growing up without a garden, sadly we just don't have any pennies, boooooooooo

I wish sum1 wud buy me a house too :-( I have one and i also have a garden however it looks like a bomb site and we cant afford to get it done nd neither of us can do gardening so were stuck!!

x

We are renting at the mo & we have a garden. Tbh Caitlin hasnt been in it much, we usually go to the park or forrest (Ok, even then its only every few weeks, neglected child )

We have a wee slide that she uses in the living room, her lil tykes car she uses in the house like somekind of pope mobile or up and down the street...

Maybe when she is older i'l use the garden more. Atm its just a major curse to mow every cpl weeeks. My OH is a lazy sod who cut it once and then caught the eye of a gardener who he pays £5 every few weeks to give it a once over. There's no way if mowing grass was percieved as a womans job would he pay a £5 to give me a break! Men!!!

Dont worry to much about not having a garden. If you near a park or have friends/family with a garden who you can visit for things like paddling pool time Elijah will be grand! x

i'm a big believer in being happy with what you've got, a lovely happy baby won't care if he's got a garden or not so you've no reason to feel bad x

i remember our first flat was near a secondary school and the amount of condoms and needles i found in it was disgusting. it was a communal garden.

on that basis and the fact he was hyper (adhd) we got moved to a house with a garden. but he doesnt like to play out, he prefers playing with his lego or on his pc (which at the moment he is banned from).

i think you make the most of what you got and to be honest a garden is hard work

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i'm a big believer in being happy with what you've got, a lovely happy baby won't care if he's got a garden or not so you've no reason to feel bad x

I totally believe in being happy with what you have - but we literally have a living room, bedroom and a bathroom, the more I think about the future the worse I feel for Elijah...our communal garden downstairs has needles and shit in it too...horrible.
Maybe it will be worth going back to work to pay for a better house - then of course the pennies will go on childcare, hmm!

i think my OH is sick fed up of me saying everyday that i want to move
his little sister has just moved into a 3 bed house with front and back garden and double garage! her rich boyfriend is paying the difference in rent from her old 2 bed flat! i need a rich man!!

i couldnt imagine living in an area that has needles everywhere etc
i appreciate some ppl dont have the choice ,, where i come from nothing happenes and i know i have said this before but the houses are much cheaper ! come move here
example below ,,

randomly chose a house in chester and one up around where i live

http://www.zoopla.co.uk/for-sale/details/11821935?search_identifier=68dc50246f0eb14ef009cc4dd0e5b224


http://www.your-move.co.uk/property-for-sale/house-for-sale-imperial-cottages-carron-aberlour-ab38-7-sale-id-527615165

Im always shocked at property prices in England, not sure if Scotland dear too.

Here's what you can get for £500pcm in my area

http://www.propertynews.com/brochure.php?r=1&c=151&s=109827162&i=13&p=PNC429566&fp=1&sort=h2l

i am in north scotland , i live in a lovely wee town ,, so many ppl holiday here lol !

i have a 2 bedroomed house i rent from association and my rent pcm is no more that £290

Wow thats good danielle!!! I think housing association round here is about £320-£350 pcm, though the waiting list for the houses can take years. We have been waiting 18mths and only in the top 25 in choice 2 and top 50 in our first preference. People keep coming in above us on list, so we going round in circles....

We pay £600 a month for a 2 bedroom house. I do love my house though its so big and roomy. It does have a garden but is a wilderness so C doesnt go in it often, we just take her to the local park a lot. If anyone is buying houses though im in, we have come to a sad realisation we cant ever really afford to buy so will be renting forever. We wont be free and clear of our debt for at least 3 years and neils already 38 and we have no deposit so unless we want to still be paying a mortgage when we retire we are now permenant renters, seems a shame we will spend all our lives paying for a house thats not actually ours

Sadly we don't have £500 a month! Hubby is a student nurse and I'm on maternity so...pixel theres a couple of amazing houses in the ferry 3-4 bed lets just split the rent

Gosh girls it seems so expensive to rent!

Because I'm sooo old, it was really easy to buy a house when I had my first baby. My first house cost us £20.500 and we needed a deposit of £1k. It was two bed terraced and it had a little back yard.

My daughter is 20 now, although she a good job, nice car I doubt she'll ever be able to buy a place. I know property has come down but lenders won't lend without a big deposit! And to rent around here cost a fortune too.

I just think you're all doing really well to be able to afford anything
I doubt I'd be doing as well as you ladies if I had to start again.

the horror of living with my parents is still fresh enough in my mind to keep going

danielle aberlour is a bit out of the way! not sure how we would do for getting work up there i have family in portsoy its beautiful up there

Aw hun, I hope you get to have your house and garden soon.

On the postive though, at least you haven't got as much cleaning/gardening etc to do

I cant believe how much it costs to rent places now though, before we bought our first house we were renting a 2 bed house for £280 a month and even now we have a 4 bed bungalow with a large garden and driveway for 3 cars and only paying £450 a month for our mortgage x

^ is that meant to make me feel better? haha i think it's tough for everyone these days, it costs so much just to be alive! (presuming you insist on having a house that is...)

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^ is that meant to make me feel better? haha i think it's tough for everyone these days, it costs so much just to be alive! (presuming you insist on having a house that is...)

Sorry xx

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Sadly we don't have £500 a month! Hubby is a student nurse and I'm on maternity so...pixel theres a couple of amazing houses in the ferry 3-4 bed lets just split the rent

deal!!

the babies can share a room!!

bunk cots!

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Sorry xx

sorry, i was joking! please dont feel bad!