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Diary entries cover a variety of topics, some of which you may find triggering. These topics include self-harm, suicide and domestic violence.
30 Nov 2024
Q&A

Gabriel K

how do you budget and what costs are the hardest to manage?

This is a really, really hard one to answer. I basically try my very best not to use anything, Superfluous or extra every month and what little money I do get from the ex-husband, and I try not to use that, which means we're really, really sure every month of them, you know, I'm living on a shoestring.

Because I find that, sometimes he stops it, you know, to go on holiday and blah blah blah by the time the CSA or whatever the corner now, get back to him, it takes three or four months and then he pays it off in installments and and we go round and round. He knows how to play the system and he starts playing again just before the send them to caught. They've done it loads of times. So that money is then saved, whatever it is normally in cash.

We got it 100 or 50 pound a month.

Take care.

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