This new house won't last.
Lou is forever getting sanctioned.
She will need to budget and budget hard.
Gas water and electricity alone before even thinking about food ,phones, Internet, home insurance (might be an idea lou as you are burgled so much.....gotta insure all that temu crap)...and remember the poor mare has the bare minimum taken to pay for her kids upbringing and of course that makes her mum of the year instantly....I mean poor girl forgets Alfie is adopted for crying out loud.
I don't even give her until Xmas tbh.
As for ste ....dear god....I've had less than £50 at times to last me more than a month ,but I just made do!.
And lou....£500 ??.....you aren't aspirational, no one wants to be like you ,you aren't an influencer ,you are a Beg , scrounger , a pos mum.
Do what they Rest of us have done with our homes, we've done it all from the ground up, charity shops, upcycling, boot sales, online auction sites.
As a disabled women myself who worked for over 20 years, it sickens me that you got given a house people like me would kill for,but I had to wrestle the private rental market for 2 years but druggy idiots like you get a red carpet.
As you remember I'm an ex drug addict myself ,but I haven't had anything handed to me ,and if I had ever been able to have kids ,the only way they'd leave me was if I was dead and buried. You are vile