Paying for it

On the weekend we went shopping for new furniture for the new house. The lounge that the kids use in the Sunroom was already on it's way out and wouldn't have worked in the new house at all. The lounge we currently have in our lounge room would probably look too big and bulky in the new lounge room, it's starting to lose some of it's comfort as the cushions are getting too soft and in places you can feel the timber frame through them. We also wanted a larger dinner table as we only had a small round table with four chairs and the new house has a largish dining area. We've never been able to really have anyone over for dinner or anything with the small round table but we couldn't really fit anything bigger in our current house. We also wanted some stools for the kitchen counter at the new house. 
All up we ended up putting close to $8,000 on our credit card, thankfully half of that is on 50 months interest free and the other half is on 36 months interest free, but that still means that we'll be paying close to $200 a month for the next three years to pay it off and then $80 a month for a further two years. 
We've already ordered some new blinds for the new house as well as a new washing machine. My wife has already got people lined up to buy our old lounge and our old washing machine so that's good, it will help pay for some of the new stuff. There is still more that I can see that we're going to want and we haven't even started talking about how much it could cost to landscape the front and backyards and that's just with me doing the work myself.
Hopefully I can make some extra money from some overtime in the next couple of years to help pay the credit card off sooner as I'd like to send my son to the local private school for your 7 onwards. He's currently in year 4 so we have a couple of years, but it will cost close to $10,000 per year to send him to the school and my daughter would be going there too for a couple of years at the same time as my son so up to $20,000 per year we need to be finding somehow. 
I think we'll be able to do it but it will mean a few changes in the way we do things. There will no doubt be less take away meals and less eating at the cafe for me. I also want to get back into brewing my own beer, as that will save a fair bit of money and it is fun experimenting with flavours and alcohol content. I can see how brewing my beers could become interesting content for this blog from time to time so there will be more on this at a later date.

Bomber
Time to make sandwiches again.