What are your spending weaknesses?

Mercuryrising

ie stuff you really know you should cut from your budget but can't seem to manage it.

I have two at the moment:

1) Cigarettes - will get round to that when I'm ready and to be honest I just have to

that's fairly common but this one is less so:

2) Shop coffees - I have this habit of going to a Starbucks or a Costas and spending about £2.50 a day for a latte. Every night I say 'Tomorrow I will not buy one' but on the way to work I always succumb - probably because I'm so tired first thing in the morning.

What's your weaknesses?

Broken_hearted

Holidays I live from one to the next. It's only 5 months since I was at Disneyland Paris, but by Feb I was crying for another one.

lynzpower

The fags too, but im not really willing to give up just yet.

I used to have a few, diet coke, newspapers, "bargains", food. Ive broke the back of all of them already, and I now longer am a slave to spending :T

Broken_hearted

I got rid of my coke habit (bloody hell I sound like a junkie), I find coke makes me feel bloated and ill now.

Mercuryrising

'bargains' - I completely agree with. I used to go to Sainsburys just to look for cheapo food offers and end up spending about a fiver more than normal - my mind overestimates the savings on the cheapo food and then I also buy food I don't really need!

Aidenr

Ciggys for me too ! again, dont think i could give that one up just yet

Im a slave to a bargain and those bloody "Whoops" labels at ASDA, its like they are calling me, buy me buy me , im cheap
lol

pozalina

1. chocolate...
2. very occasional but expensive item of clothing I just have to have

raven_3

Clothes and accessories, especially if I'm somewhere like primark and I see say, a belt for £2 and just buy it without thinking if I truly want it

Magazines are another. I have improved vastly (at one point I was buying about 8 glossies a month - don't ask me why!) Now I generally buy 2-3 a month but I often read them and wonder why I bother wasting money.

Shop coffees - albeit, not that often. Usually just weekends, and they are treats! But I do love sitting in an overpriced coffee bar with a big frothy latte!

moongarden

hi mercury rising
how about instead of "tomorrow i will not buy a coffee" you say
"today i will find/borrow/bargain buy a flask and put it next to the kettle ready for the morning"
i've got an insulated mug which i take with me - i make a cup of tea for me and a cup of tea for the sealed mug and just take it with me

**purpleprincess**

I used to have loads!! So called "bargains" my reasoning would be "but it was CHEAP!" magazines was another one, spent a fortune on them! General snacks, even though I'd take my lunch to work I would still go out and buy stuff on my lunch break, crisps, sweets, chocolate, drinks etc.

But like lynzpower I have pretty much broken the back of it. Although I do allow myself a weekly sweetie allowance as this really is my vice!! And I have given up smoking- 3 months now!!! THe shop up the road from me does penny sweets so I buy 10 fruit salads (yummy!!) for 10p and they last me a couple of days, usually do this twice a week so it's only 20p, not too bad!!

tyllwyd

Me, I'm addicted to shop-bought lattes too!! I usually go to town once a week with my toddler, and treat us to a drink in the coffee shop. If I don't go manage to go one week, I get all twitchy about it, and I can't relax until I've had my fix.