Not going to lie, working two days a week is awesome. The non-working days are busy with all the things we have to do and it is a real treat wearing disreputable shorts and no shoes ... We have been out to the house a couple more times to take the carpet to the tip (with the help of friends with a trailer! very handy) and get quotes from a variety of tradespeople. We are already finding out that older houses suck up money ... although our 1970s house is keeping its end up on the money-suck front. So many things to fix. Luckily we have a cat to assist us in clearing out cupboards.
We cleared out the filing cabinet too, so many useless bits of paper. Who has hard copies of anything any more? Why would we need the receipt for our wedding cake?
That is a great price, even at the time, for a three tiered beautifully decorated cake. We couldn't agree on the cake flavour so had the top and bottom tiers chocolate mud and the middle one fruit.
And I threw out all the job offer letters (but took photos first, for posterity). I was absolutely delighted to be earning that, back in 2005 ... when you think about it the $10.20 per hour library job was only ten years earlier! I worked there until the start of 1994. So that salary seemed like heaps, although it was the sole household income for a while when my husband took two and half years off to mind the infants and keep the house ... which he did wonderfully. Stay at home spouses are the BEST.
And a passport photo of infant number two, from about that time. Sooooo cute.
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