TheJournal.ie reader WELCOME TO HOW I Spend My Money, a series on TheJournal.ie that looks at what people in Ireland really handle their finances.
Last time around, we heard from a 29-year-old woman on €46K who had moved out of the city. This time, we hear from a mother of three children living in the west of the country.I am a married mother of three children aged 6, 8 and 11 living in the West of Ireland. I wasn’t working for a few years when my children were small so my husband was covering the mortgage and bills from his account. He earns more than I do.
12.30 pm: We break for lunch. Tuna wraps and fruit salad. The youngest two have a little more school work to do and then we play with playdoh and jigsaws as I organise the laundry and a few jobs around the house. 12.30 pm: We break for lunch. Homemade vegetable soup and brown bread. I scroll Facebook while making the lunch and see an appeal for Dog’s Trust and donate €20.00. The weather is miserable so we don’t get out for a walk. Instead, the older two fight for the afternoon and do my head in until I make threats about no screen tonight. Then they wreck my house making dens. I do some more schoolwork in an effort to have some time off this evening.6.
3.00 pm: They all watch Home School Hub while I go for a run with the dog seeing as my husband is in the house. When I get home I bake brown bread with the help of my middle child and prepare a quick lamb curry using yesterday’s leftovers. I’ve developed a killer headache and ask my sister-in-law to stop by with panadol on her way home from work. She drops it to the door wearing a mask and I see her to the car and throw €10.00 in the window as she wouldn’t take the money for it at the door.
1.00 pm: Toasted specials for lunch today with crisps on the side. We get straight back to work in the hope of getting out for a walk to the beach again today. We are all finished by 3 pm and take the dog for a walk to the beach. When we get home we bake carrot cake together while prepping dinner. The kids have their music lessons via Zoom tomorrow and I transfer the money via Revolut – €45.00 for all three.
That’s about the same amount of overtime that was paid to a Garda Sargent recently
It's getting much easier to understand why politicians and media don't understand reality, how much?
my granddaughter got a message from her teacher saying she won't be getting any work next week as the absolute chancers in the teaching profession are on a mid term break sweet jesus you couldn't make this shite up absolute chancers 😔
52k as a primary school teacher 😆 a paramedic with 8 years plus experience is roughly on that and they work the summers 😆 🤣 😂 dont want to hear a teacher open there mouth again to complain about their jobs
52k 😱
That's after about 12/13 years.
I knew they were paid a lot...... but Christ on a bike!
52K hahaha sure they only work about 8 days a year unreal and they still have the neck to be constantly complaining