What are your spending weaknesses?

amosworks

Mercuryrising wrote:

I can't stand it the way on some forums even the word cigarette is mentioned before the health police come marching in and drags it way off topic. :rolleyes:

Well that probably because smoking is a nasty and stupid habbit lol.

yeslek wrote:

it used to be drugs - but i see them as more of treat

Haha I think you said what we were all thinking

KathrynPenguin wrote:

I'm another Latte addict

Kevicho: If you haven't already, you'll encounter this with Cummuta's "Latte factor" soon. Here it is in action right before your very eyes :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

Molanole

It's CDs and gigs for me. I have been known to have the occasional "week of rock" going to an extortionately overpriced gig every night of the week and still finding room on the credit card to go to three festivals over the month of August. Not this year though, no siree. But that's cos there was no room on the credit card rather than a concerted effort not to buy! And now they've all sold out.

The worst part, is after you've paid for the ticket, postage and booking fee, you then have to pay three quid or more for a pint in certain "links to a type of lager" venues.

Catseyez

Bags and shoes are my primary (and most expensive) weaknesses.

Used to be diet coke but I've pretty much drawn a line under that now. I'm on about 3-4 cans a month!!! It's been hard to resist the recent addition of the tasty diet cherry-coke!

Other than that...books...can never have enough of those!

CAFCGirl

To be perfectly honest mine is just about anything.
Went from CD's to DVD's then to beads for jewellery making, then to bargains on ebay and elsewhere to put into my present box.

Defeated the object of that, since it was supposed to be when i see things, not go looking for them!

Have to get really 'tight' on myself from this point forward.Looking to only go £200 into overdraft this month.

earwig

caffene free coke i drink 6 cans a day always have always will

tesuhoha

I have to have my bottle of red wine once a week. Between my OH and I we make it last 3/4 days but it just makes such a difference to a meal like beef casserole or spag bol.

Doodles

My weaknesses are magazines - if money were no object I could quite easily spend £20 a week on them!

The other is 'stuff for the home'. Not necessarily expensive things, but glasses, duvet covers, candles, teatowels etc etc etc. Love browsing the home section in Woolworths!

lessonlearned

I could never resist Primark (it's closed down now so that's helped me kick the habit).

Reduced DVD's, magazines, newspapers and supermarket bargains and bogofs.

Thanks to my lightbulb moment I've more or less stopped all "casual" spending and it's made a real difference.

The one thing I can't give up though is a decent cup of coffee. I have a little cafetiere at home and allow myself two or three cups a day. I do love coffee shop lattes but they are so fattening (iand expensive) they are now a once in a blue moon treat.

I'll just go an polish my halo now.

Tr@cker

No, ain't nobody around me cos i live solo and i can think of plenty of other 'selfish pursuits' My blood pressure is that of a teenager, colesterol normal and on a good day i can do 15/20 miles on my mountain bike (im 53)
To be honest im well p*ssed- off with the PC brigade/nanny state/smoke police who think they know better than everybody else.

P.S. Churchill drank brandy copiously every day and smoked like a tooper was obese and lived until was 90!

southernscouser

Fishing!

They call it the working mans sport but you have to be on more than a "working mans" wage to bloody afford it! :rolleyes: