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What are your spending weaknesses?
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hmmm my weakness is really going out on a friday night after work for a beer which turns into me staying the entire night and spending too much money :doh:Savings Total so far for 2023: £8,062.580
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used to be fags but stopped that then lattee from the local coffee shop, now i think a nice sandwich from the local deli, it can't be beeten by any home made lunch.Mortgage free Start amount feb 2014 227000. Current amount nov 2014 217000.
Challenges 2015
No alcohol January. No spend February
Write down all spends over the whole year0 -
Hello,
I love a bargain me! Anything from a charity shop, car boot - if its cheap, its mine, no matter whether I want it or not! In fact, I'm going to be selling some of my stupid car boot purchases at my own car boot at the end of this month - I'm so silly.
Other then that - just pointless food in general - I'm a greedy pig
scottishspendaholic xMBNA = £4,000 / Next = £925 (approx. tbc on 19/8)
Tesco = £2,910.11 / Smile overdraft = £500
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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!!
Ten would last me about 10 minutes,how do you make them last for 2 days?
I also love latté and it's really expensive :eek:on the motorway which is where I spend a lot of my days.
As I am on Slimming World I am trying to avoid both sweets and lattés at the moment.0 -
i used to be really bad with reduced stuff, i would buy it cos it was cheap and then it would languish in the freezer for months / years. so now i try to only buy meat so i can cook what i like from scratch rather than ready meals which will never get used.:love: married to the man of my dreams! 9-08-090
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amosworks wrote:He was also a manic depressive and closet 'mo.
and had a stablised heroin dependency:beer: Well aint funny how its the little things in life that mean the most? Not where you live, the car you drive or the price tag on your clothes.
Theres no dollar sign on piece of mind
This Ive come to know...
So if you agree have a drink with me, raise your glasses for a toast :beer:0 -
Domino's Pizza...
This would be a really good one to be able to kick beacuse for the two of us, one meal usually ends up being around £15 by the time we've bought chicken strippers and deserts!
We usually end up doing this at least once a week (bad bad people!) - just think , that's £60 a month I could be paying off something!
JamesTotal Debt: Owe about £19,000 on credit cards plus £24,000 which is my half of joint loans.0 -
My spending weakness is at a Deli round the corner and they do a wicked coronation chicken deli roll but at £3.25 I get one every couple of weeks as a treat. I have tried making my own etc and nothing compares:mad:
Before becoming ill, my weakness was Louis Vuitton:eek: Bags and purses, but I did always make sure they were classic style so I could use them for years to come. If money got sooo desperate they could be sold...suppose:rotfl:
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