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If I Had a Million Dollars

Posted by cafebebemama on Feb 26, 2010 in Writing Workshop | 3 comments

My blogging friend, Josie, has given us a Writing Workshop prompt which challenged us to take ourselves on a £1000 shopping spree.  As this is my blog and I’m ever so creative, I have decided to change the amount as there’s no way that I could get what I needed for £1000.  If you don’t agree with me changing the rules, sorry…blog about £1000 on your site and prove it can be done!

I shall, first and foremost, give you a song/video that you can listen to whilst reading my post.  I have nicked the title of my post from the Barenaked Ladies song of the same name.  Enjoy!

When I was trying to figure out how I could spend £1000, I realised that it wouldn’t work because I wanted to buy things for my daughter, husband and myself.  Thus, the financial deposit of $1,000,000 in my virtual bank account.

Little Miss' Wish List

Little Miss would love to have some Fisher Price Little People sets.  We will happily add the following to our virtual shopping cart:

These all run about $20 but we’ll say $25 to round up and that makes $75.  Throw in a few sets of extra animals and people so that there are plenty of multi-cultural friends and fauna and let’s call it an even $100

Now we shall move on to Duplo…a newly acquired toy of joy!

This bloomin’ Duplo stuff…absolutely brilliant but SO EXPENSIVE!  It averages about £40 but £50 for most sets.  Let’s call it $200 and my daughter will be in bliss.

Now, for some outdoor fun for the 4 sunny days we get each year in England.

Shockingly, this set is £500!  We’ll call it $800 and be set!

So, for Little Miss alone, that makes $1100.  If we could also throw in a year’s membership and classes at Tumble Tots (£25 membership, £40/term x 4 terms = £200; converted = $300

Total for Little Miss:  $1400

Hubby's Wish List

My hard working hubby deserves to not be so hard working so he can spend more time with us and doesn’t have to be so stressed from work, so, I would like to buy him approximately the rest of his life to not have to work.  This would equate to approximately $600,000.  I would also like to buy him the mountain bike of his dreams (he’s telling me about a Yeti) so I’ll give him $5000 for that.  And for it never to break or break down…$1000 to cover that so $6000. I would also like to allocate $300,000 for us to buy a new house somewhere near where we are…I’ll let him pick where as long as I can choose fixtures, furniture and decoration.  Total for Hubby = $906,000

Total for Little Miss = $1,400 + Total for Hubby = $906,000 = $907, 400

What’s left for me?  $92,600

Happy Family!

Apple MacBook Pro

I would love to have a new laptop so I can write and work without incident during daytime hours and then have time for my husband at night instead of working at night on his laptop.  I would happily switch allegiance to the Apple MacBook Pro which I believe would run me around $2000 with bells and whistles and all that jazz.

I would also love to have a Blackberry AND and iPhone just like @mummytips and perhaps a holster to carry them both in so I can be extra cool.  If I could have the best plan possible for them both, that would be great.  I might be able to leave the house for more than a few hours at a time and still tend to my responsibilities.  Let’s call it an even $2000 for that lot.  And then I would REALLY love to have a bit of pampering- hair, nails, facial, massage, make-up- the works.  I’ll take $1000 for that.  Maybe a new wardrobe would be good as well as Claire at The Good, The Bad & The Ugly says that I have to stop wearing my husband’s clothes.  I’ll give Claire $2000 to kit me out with sensible, flattering clothes.  And that leaves…

Too much money!  I’ll give a bit more for some holidays and airfare for family to visit and then give everyone the best Christmas ever!  Oh, maybe a lovely new set of furniture for our lounge and my daughter’s university education for about $50,000

What would you do “if you had a million dollars”?

Christmas Worries

Posted by cafebebemama on Nov 15, 2009 in American Mum Me, Motherhood | 9 comments

The other night I went out to dinner with some lovely Mummy friends of mine.  I casually asked them what they were getting their daughters, all the same age as Little Miss, for Christmas.  They listed off lots of things!  All the gifts sounded brilliant.  Most of the stuff we can’t afford.  They asked me what we were getting for Little Miss and sheepishly I admitted that I didn’t really know.  I didn’t know what we could afford!  And I also haven’t given a ton of thought to what I want to get for Little Miss as well.  You see, as much as I want to give Little Miss the world, a) we can’t afford it and b) I don’t know that Little Miss needs to have THE WORLD at the age of 17-18 months.  I feel like if she gets a ton of things this Christmas (which she won’t), then we have to equal or better it next Christmas which then just becomes a contest and more of a stress than it should be.

I remember Christmases growing up.  We had TONS of presents!  My brother and I would hand out the presents to everyone and then we’d sit and take turns opening pressies.  I would always stack mine from biggest to smallest and carefully unwrap each present; never peeking until the entire wrapping paper was off.  In fact, I would carefully unwrap each present in order to prolong the surprise.  No tearing into pressies for me!  No, I wanted to make the suspense last as long as possible.  And then, when I got whatever present out, I would savour it and gaze at it until it was my turn again to open another present.  This present opening usually took HOURS with an intermission at some point so the adults could sneak a drink and the kids could burn off some energy.  I loved Christmas…it was my favourite holiday EVER.

Back to the present.  What to do for our Little Miss??  It’s a bit tricky really.  We have family in the US and it’s hard for them to buy things for her (Amazon is good…other online “wish lists” are good but if I put things on them, usually nothing comes off of them!).  My family here will get things that we suggest, I’m sure.  It’s just hard…I so want Little Miss to have a stack of presents to open and be so excited about what’s in them but I don’t think that stack will be very high.  And to tell you the truth, I don’t want her to have a ton of things that she’s not going to play with a lot.  I would rather have a handful of toys that she’ll love and will entertain her and won’t be relegated to the bottom of the toy bin.  In fact, I really need to go through Little Miss’ toys and take things out that she never plays with and pass them on to a charity shop or new home.

What are you doing for your child’s Christmas this year?  We’re all struggling with the recession/being stay-at-home Mums/maternity benefits/one income/etc.- how will your family cope?  Please share any suggestions…I’d love to know!  I’ll leave you with two items I’d love Little Miss to have…we’ll see if Santa is reading!

Dotty Wot

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