What are your spending weaknesses?

owessomuch

Concert tickets to see my favourite bands!

The worse thing is you have to buy the tickets months in advance of the actual gig and the dates are announced out of the blue so it gives you no time to save up!

yeslek

it used to be drugs - but i see them as more of treat if i do well and i dont do them while i'm at uni so that only leaves new year or summer parties

now its gig's and cd's
but i tend to save up and splurge only occasionally
with being at uni i refuse myself time to go out and enjoy things as much cos to be honest, i dont have time, i wouldnt be able to get my uni work done.

Kaminari_2

Chocolate and cake and snack foods. AND diet coke.

yeslek

owessomuch wrote:

Concert tickets to see my favourite bands!

The worse thing is you have to buy the tickets months in advance of the actual gig and the dates are announced out of the blue so it gives you no time to save up!

snap
i'm, trying to save for the red hot chili peppers but it's lookin doubtful

Petal_3

My thing is plants for the garden! I can do without loads of stuff ie. clothes etc and tell myself I don't really need them/can't afford them but when I go into a Garden centre I think nothing (almost) of spending £50/£70 on a plant. I'm trying not to go into garden centres at all but it's difficult.....I just LOVE it! (and my garden looks lovely too).

~x~

pollypig

Mercuryrising wrote:

Sorry I was a bit harsh too - I agree that smoking and the rights and wrongs of it in terms of health benefits and how it affects others is always a good debate but just not for here.

couldn't agree more - my fingers were typing before my head had time to think!

As for my own weaknesses.... SO many, too many to mention as a start... shoes, handbags (REALLY trying to get a grip on this - you can only wear/use so many at once!), Heat magazine (full of rubbish but I just can't resist it, although OH often buys it for me now!). Luckily I manage to only have Starbucks on work time, so work pays for it :j otherwise I would be in trouble! gotta love a skinny latte/coffee frappuccino...!

Mercuryrising

owessomuch wrote:

Concert tickets to see my favourite bands!

The worse thing is you have to buy the tickets months in advance of the actual gig and the dates are announced out of the blue so it gives you no time to save up!

And you didn't mention the extortionate ticket agent fees - now almost fiver per ticket extra. :mad:

kuohu

For me it is gigs. I have been managing to stay on budget with my normal shopping etc, but then someone I like announces some concerts and I have to go because it's been 6 years since he last toured, etc.

This year this particular weakness has seen me get tickets for Morrissey (Salford Lowry - fantastic), Beth Orton, Clayhill (tomorrow!), Radiohead (Monday!) and three concerts by The Wedding Present. Or maybe four.

About £120 which could have come off the debt, I guess. But I don't regret it one bit.

owessomuch

yeslek wrote:

snap
i'm, trying to save for the red hot chili peppers but it's lookin doubtful

Luckily for me a friend has bought them and she has said I can pay her on the night of the gig! Very Kind of her.

owessomuch

Mercuryrising wrote:

And you didn't mention the extortionate ticket agent fees - now almost fiver per ticket extra. :mad:

I know what you mean they also charge a fortune for postage to!