* WARNING * Rant coming up!!
Remember I told you about things my BIL was saying on FB??? (I think I ranted about that here before?!)
Well tonight he struck again!!
He posted this thing about a massive tv (like a home cinema type thing) that costs £42,000. He said this thing about you should read the reviews on this, it's so funny! So I thought I'd have a look and the comments were quite funny, so ridiculous that they were funny.
Well anyway, he commented on his own link saying: funny aint it... you walk past council house estates and look through front windows...they all have screens like this filling up their lounges and yet they can't afford basic food! lol
ahhh the comfort of job-seekers and housing benefits!...and having lots of kids
AAAARGGGHH!!!! That REALLY pissed me and Jay off!! He really doesn't have a clue about things like that so why comment on it?? I know he didn't aim it at us, but still, he makes everyone that ever claimed job-seekers and housing benefits and gets money for their kids seem like they are living the big life! Yes, there ARE people that do that, they'd rather have all the flashy things in the world and then go: oh crap, I don't have any money for food. Or they like to buy drugs etc with the money that taxpayers (effectively) give them! Which is ridiculous and I totally don't agree with people that do that! But to make a comment like that and make it seem as if everyone that lives (or HAS to live) on benefits does that REALLY pisses me off!!
It's not like he's never been to our house and seen what we have - we've still got one of those 90's tv's which is huge (not the screen, but the whole thing!) and it even has dead pixels (sometimes people's faces go green when they're right underneath the 'right' spot!) And we don't have a car cause we can't afford it. We can't really do xmas this year cause we can't afford to really buy any presents. We don't have money to go out all the time.
We've lost about £450 a month since hubby lost his job in the army.
Don't get me wrong, we can still afford to eat and buy clothes when we have to but it's always a puzzle to figure out where the money comes from, but that doesn't mean that we're having a baby that we can't afford! - hope you don't think we were stupid enough to try for a baby when we can't afford it! And to be honest, we hoped that hubby would have a job by now but because of the whole situation with the house he hasn't been able to. Either way he really shouldn't comment on things he knows nothing about!!
He was lucky that his grandparents left him and his 3 siblings their house that had been paid off! His sister started living in it and now that she could get a mortgage the rest of them have all got their 1/4 share of the worth of the house. Which meant him and my sister could get a mortgage, as you need quite a sizeable deposit here in the UK (not sure what it's like over there!) But he's obviously oblivious to what it's like not to have everything he's been handed on a plate!!
I just can't understand why people would say stuff like that, especially when they've seen someone in their own family struggle with things because they are in that situation! I used to think it was easy living on benefits, because of all the people the cheat the system and just spend their money on whatever (my sister-in-law is one of them!) But because we're married and therefore I'm not a single mum and we claim jointly and also cause we're honest on our claim forms we don't get to do stuff like that! But it definitely isn't as easy as it seemed!
Jay was literally sitting in his chair shaking because he was so angry about what my BIL said! He said if he was here he would've smacked him!!
Ok, sorry, rant is over now!! I'm done!! SORRY!!!
) I was totally stuffed afterwards though!! 
I normally struggle with 5 km which is less than 3miles I think hahaha. Well I guess it depends on my mood and on my hips as they are always so sore... I should get them checked as they kind of vet me locked in place sometimes. It may just be a weight thing. 
It's actually making me cry!! It's not his fault at all, it's just something that happened and we'll get through it....
