Katie has been hit with a bill just before Christmas that she didn't see coming (or should have but didn't!) Rach tries to find a solution as always!
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Speaker 2 (00:23):
Welcome back to another episode of Am I a Bad
Mum Podcast? Rat Sol, I'm going to tell you something
right now that's going to absolutely blow your mind.
Speaker 1 (00:30):
Okay, I'm here and ready for it.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Apart from a couple of little bits, I have all
of my Christmas presents rapped.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Under the tree.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
I was getting so overwhelmed with the amount of stuff
I've got to get done in the lead up with
visitors from overseas coming work. I've got at least another
week and a half of work, and I was like,
what can I get done that's going to help my
nervous system ever so slightly. I'll wrap the presence. I'll
(01:01):
have a look what I bought, because what I normally
do is I start buying and I buy a few
little bits, and then I forgot what I buy, and
so I buy more stuff, and then I end up
getting out the stuff of the kids and I'm like,
they've got way too much, too much. So this way
I had a look and I was like, I think
that's okay.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
I think it's actually really impressive. I think it's very impressive.
I also did a bit of the same last week
because our girls are getting drip fed presents at the
moment because I just said, sorry, I can't take them
away with um.
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Yeah, because you're going it's a difficult one. You're going
to be away a way.
Speaker 1 (01:38):
I don't want to.
Speaker 4 (01:39):
Use my luggage space for their presence. That sounds so
terribly selfish, But here I am freezing to death overseas
and oh mate, oh don't worry. They're happy they got
their silk bonnets on Christmas Day.
Speaker 1 (01:53):
I'm not taking them, so they've got them and they've
been opening like one a day.
Speaker 4 (01:58):
I've come up with the issue though that I think
maybe I really didn't strategically look at how many presents
each they have, because like Crazy was sort of like,
oh I'm already out of.
Speaker 1 (02:07):
Presents under the tree.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Oh yeah, and Elsie's like, I've got one more to go.
Speaker 3 (02:12):
Did you do like a fake Christmas Day?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
Then?
Speaker 1 (02:15):
Have you done?
Speaker 4 (02:16):
No, they've just been opening one a day. I mean,
like that is Christmas in itself, if you had a
present a day. Yeah, I mean not every day, because
I really didn't buy that many.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Because my cousin and family who are coming over from
the UK the other day did like a fake Christmas
Day where their daughter got her presence, and it was like,
Merry Christmas, but it's not really because we're going to
be away.
Speaker 5 (02:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (02:38):
Yeah, we're doing like a bit of that.
Speaker 4 (02:39):
We're going to do a Christmas celebration with the family
and it will be fine.
Speaker 3 (02:44):
Yeah, what be rach?
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Can I ask you a question? How many Christmas cards
do you get these days?
Speaker 1 (02:50):
None? Haven't got one.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
I got one. I got one the other.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Day and it came from a church group, Jehovah's Witnesses. No, no,
it's from my dad and his wife. And so it's
come overseas. This is going to blow your mind. Amelia's
looking at the envelope on the kitchen bench. It's not
(03:14):
opened yet, and she's gone, why does it have like
a price on the stamp? Right?
Speaker 3 (03:20):
And I went because I posted a stamp.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
That's how much it cost a post And she was
like what it was like her mind was blown.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
She went, you have to pay? I went, yeah, it's
a stamp. Have you never seen a stamp before?
Speaker 1 (03:33):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:33):
And she went, oh yeah, I just thought it was
a picture on the envelope. Oh how do you think
he gets.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Here by courier pigeon?
Speaker 1 (03:41):
Oh my gosh, what was she expecting.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
I was waiting for her to say, Oh my gosh,
it would have been so much she before them just
to send a text.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
I think she had genuinely no idea. How hadn't thought
about No, hadn't thought about the fact that there needs
to be a stamp on it. Most of our letters,
right are like from the bank or from the fucking
pil asking to pay you red jo Yeah. Yeah, And
they don't have stamps as such on them. No, They're
(04:09):
all like creepaid envelope whatever. And so for this it
made me realize we never have actual letters from anybody. No,
never any letters that come with the stamp. We've got
one Christmas card. I'm like, where are gonna put one
Christmas card?
Speaker 4 (04:24):
You can't really put one up because it really gives
away the fact that you don't have any friends.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
I got one Christmas card. I remember you got to
day for me.
Speaker 1 (04:35):
Because I got nothing.
Speaker 5 (04:36):
But we have like string up and all the Christmas
card it's hung on the string and over the years
it's just got you know what, Christmas cards going to
absolutely die out with the gen Z Genera.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
Stands checks Merry Christmas.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
There's two people that should be really panicking right now
with the gen Z's Hallmark Hallmark. Hallmark should be really
worrying they're dying out. BWS. They're also gonna don't keep
them with business, you know, the millennials. Just side note,
Millennials are the drunkest generation. We overtake sixties.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Don't worry, We're still here for a while. Yeah, so
they're fine. BWS is fine anyway, good luck. We're trying
to put your one Christmas card out on display.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Am I bad mum for getting really fucking angry.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's that time of year where we love each other
so much.
Speaker 2 (05:38):
Well, you're right, it's that time of year, right, and
it's expensive. It's an expensive time of year. So guess what.
I really did not need to come along at this time,
so close to Christmas and holidays and all the rest.
Just a side note, I need a new mattress because
my back has been so sore, all weak, and I
(05:59):
do with it.
Speaker 1 (06:00):
Well, I bought a really expensive mattress topper.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
I mean, people don't share mattress toppers, but it's brain
you and you can have it if you want.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Oh, I was sold.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
I actually love to try that because I really don't
want to pay sixteen hundred dollars on a new mattress.
Speaker 1 (06:13):
Yeah, I was like, just try a mattress top.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
It is very soft, though, so I'm not sure that
Jay will love it if he's a real sick.
Speaker 1 (06:19):
Why don't you want it because it's so soft? Okay?
And I keep sinking in it.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
My ass was like I wake up and I'm like
half like because my ears is just so heavy that
it just drops into the mattress. So then I just
wake up and I'm like all crooked and I feel sore.
Speaker 1 (06:34):
But then I'm on the other end of it where
the other.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Part of the mattress is so hard. Can't find a
happy medium at the moment.
Speaker 3 (06:40):
No, I realized that our mattress is over ten years old, so.
Speaker 2 (06:43):
Oh really need to be Yeah, yeah, I mean climbing though,
how old?
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Like what is the life span of a mattress these days?
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Seven to ten years?
Speaker 1 (06:52):
Seven to ten.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
But you've got to spend a bit of money on
a mattress, especially the older that we get. I saw
a mattress just sitting outside of another place down.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Yeah, that's a brothel. I don't want that one.
Speaker 1 (07:03):
I can help you. I'll fucking give you a double
we'll lift it back.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
I see that mattress out there, I'm like, this is
really not good advertising for your brothel, like.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
It lie wearrible.
Speaker 4 (07:17):
Looking over from getting a coffee to come and record
this podcast.
Speaker 1 (07:22):
I just had the biggest little you know, like belly
laugh when I saw the mattress outside and thought, mattress
outside of a brothel. Yeah, wow, wow wow.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
At least put it out of the back see it.
Speaker 1 (07:37):
See everything on that mattress.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Yeah, we only found out recently that that was a brothel.
I mean it's got all the signs, the flashy light massage.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
I did not know it was brothel.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
Yeah, you told me, and someone said to me the
other day because I googled it to show the website.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
It's not trying to hide the.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
Fact it gives you.
Speaker 4 (07:55):
I went straight onto it when you told me about it.
It's got a full price list.
Speaker 1 (07:58):
You can have like.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
Gold service, silver service, bronze service, edging on what you're
going to get for a turn of dollars, but yeah,
everything if you want to just drop in for fifteen minutes.
Speaker 1 (08:10):
Yeah, I was buying a way.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Anyway, back to Mattress Winnie New One there is none
down the road. So what else you got coming at
the moment in terms of expenses.
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So formal tickets closing day to buy them is today.
Speaker 1 (08:26):
For more for next year, for more for next.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
Year, have to be bought by today. If they want
to go, of course they have to go. It's for
more like the year twelve. They're finishing school, they're graduating.
Speaker 1 (08:38):
Are we allowed to talk about a rough guess amount
a price?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Yeah, go ahead.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
It made me so angry. I got angry with my
husband for even telling me what the price was.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
He didn't make out the price.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I got angry with the girls for just needing us
to buy them. I got angry with the school when
it's not even planned by the school.
Speaker 1 (08:57):
Fifty per ticket one two fifty more more than two fifty.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
You know why, because just buy two tickets for two kids,
you have to buy four tickets.
Speaker 1 (09:07):
I do hope that they get it for their date.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Six hundred dollars rach oh wow, yeah, six hundred to
speak out before Christmas has to be done today today.
Speaker 1 (09:19):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:20):
Jay was on the website. It was like, okay, this
is how much they cost, blah blah blah. How do
you want to pay.
Speaker 1 (09:25):
Oh, and I don't fucking know where do you find it.
There's a brothel down the road, maybe you should there.
Speaker 2 (09:35):
Oh yeah, No, it's not even funny, like because you
know you've got in your mind what you need to
pay for, what's coming up, put you need pay for.
It's really annoying when things come out of the blue
like mattress. I was like, oh, why have I It
didn't give me like a little niggle warning, yeah, warning.
In the lead up, it was like, Bam, have a
really shit night. Sleep for like five nights. I'm so tired.
Speaker 1 (09:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Because also it doesn't even matter like what time you
go to bed, what time you wake up. It's like,
if I'm in bed for like five hour, my back
starts hurting.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
Wow. It must be just like all of a sudden,
a bad mattress.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Anyway, it must have slept long last night because I
was fucking texting you and you didn't reply, And then
I sent you another text saying, oh, so sorry, it's Monday,
which means it's your nana bedtime night.
Speaker 1 (10:19):
So sorry, I've just sent you forty five ticks. I
just see my head. In my head, I had envisage
and Katie getting so angry at the phone going off.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
No, because I have it on silence, so it's fine.
But I'll tell you what I don't have on silent,
and that is my children reminding me that I need
to buy the formal tickets today. And the other thing
is they're then starting to say, you know, we're worried
about not getting a dress, and then they're talking about makeup,
and I went, you know what.
Speaker 3 (10:48):
I said, Mecca is one.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Hundred and twenty dollars to have makeup and then you
get to choose one hundred and twenty dollars worth of product, yeah,
and instantly make it the Mecca. I'm like, well I
do how is it good enough for me? But it's
not good enough for you?
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Now?
Speaker 2 (11:05):
And okay, all right, will you find whoever you want
to do your makeup?
Speaker 3 (11:09):
He'll pay one hundred and twenty dollars towards it and
then you pay the rest. Yeah, so if you want to.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Find someone that's five hundred, like, fill your boots, because
I think you'll be changing your mind about Mecca after
you work out how much some of these people are charging.
Speaker 1 (11:21):
Because I'm expensive because it's just bank of mum.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Yeah, I was like absolutely not, and like right now,
you'd have to book it in. Most of them get
you to prepay it. Yeah, you're dropping thousands before Christmas
on this formal And.
Speaker 3 (11:33):
What the fuck is with semi formal? I had to
do all of this last year?
Speaker 1 (11:37):
Yeah, I know, but now you're buying dresses again. Have
they sold those dresses?
Speaker 4 (11:40):
No?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
They hired them?
Speaker 1 (11:41):
Oh good, all right, that's so they hired them.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
I paid for it is to hire address these days,
I was like, oh, hiring it, I'd be like eighty bucks.
Speaker 1 (11:49):
I think it's no, No, it's not.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Why is it now?
Speaker 4 (11:53):
I think they're just sort of cashing in on the
fact that dry cleaning so expensive, Like I don't want
to get started on dry cleaning, and how much it.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
Is is ridiculous. Yeah, and then they've got to get
all of their dresses dry cleaned.
Speaker 2 (12:04):
Yeah all right, So I angry with them anymore then
because they were definitely on my hit list.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
You've then got to look at shoes, earrings, bags, Yeah,
I know, where do you drink all the line? Maybe
you just say to them all the accessories that you
have for semi you need to be able to reuse
for formal and then meet them like sort of somewhere
with the dress.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
The other day, Rach Amelia needed something for like a
birthday party she was going to, and she.
Speaker 3 (12:30):
Was like, oh, this is the theme blah blah blah,
and I was like, oh perfect.
Speaker 2 (12:33):
She was like sequins, right, And I was like, in
my wardrobe, I've got a really cute little like bit
Mutton dressers lamb for me to wear it these days.
But it was like tiny little mini skirt, yeah, like
silver and white sequins, and I was like this is perfect,
like and I was so pleased with myself. Rach I
had like a smart oh yeah really really now this
(12:56):
like I've got perfect thing for her. And I've walked
out with it on the hangar and I've walked into
Amelia's room and I was.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
Said, I got the perfect thing for you, Like what
about this? You could wear it like with.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
A little white cropped up or whatever.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
This will look really cute. She looked at me like
I was insane. Oh no, it's all right, thanks mum.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
It was Honestly, if I had been one of her
friends and I'd held up that skirt, there was nothing
wrong with the.
Speaker 1 (13:22):
Skirt has been fine. It was like oh no, thanks, Maks.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
Mom, I would never be seen dead in that. That
would be social suicide.
Speaker 1 (13:34):
Me happy spending, then, darling, God.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Nothing wrong with my skirt.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
It's my skirt, right, sell it then you're not gonna
wear it again? Just called yourself mutton dress lamb? What
is it?
Speaker 2 (13:48):
Well, I'm gonna be a bit more mutton dress as lamb.
I've decided I've got teenage girls as shaming.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
I'm gonna just be mutton. I'm gonna wear it, short
skirts and my ass out. I'm gonna let go.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
I just can't wait. Oh, I can't wait. I cannot wait.
Speaker 4 (14:05):
Please invite me along for them
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