Tight-a**** hubby driving me insane!

willa

It is interesting. I was actually thinking earlier of starting a thread about how it's so much cheaper to eat healthily than to eat loads of fast/rubbish/convenience food.
I know it's easy like Sakura says but I must admit I fall into the convenience trap myself a lot and it's kind of 'normal' to do that too.
It really annoys me when you get people saying things like their toddler is morbidly obese because they can't 'afford' healthy food for them.
£10 a week for two people is bl**dy impressive though Sakura! That must take a lot of discipline.

poet123

Sorry to be blunt, but living with someone like this must be hell. If you were a spendthrift and needed reigning in with money then that would be a different matter. This chap does not know how lucky he is....go visit soem relatives and leave him £40 for the month. Whne you come back my bet is he will realise how petty and unreasonable he is being.

If he doesn't,.... leave him. Life is too short.

Errata

LegalBlonde wrote: »

, she only mentioned her food bill in the context of her question.

She clearly thought it was an important part of her difficulties.

tandraig

I do get where you are coming from Errata - I too worry about her lack of some elements in her diet - and cannot for the life of me work out how she can be obtaining them on a fiver a week. thats about 75pence a day - for three meals?

and before you all start thinking well this woman spends £60 quid a week on groceries for two - let me tell you that during the miners strike in 1984 I had £14 a week. and three kids! I got through it - but - I wouldnt say our diet was healthy - OH and i had one meal a day - mostly beans and chips and the kids had a very monotonous if fairly healthy diet. and as soon as he was back in work I worked very hard to correct their diets and introduce variety back. and some foods they hadnt tasted for ages! so i do have some experience with a very very limited budget - oh and the £14 wasnt the food budget - that was for everything including fuel!

roses

Have you tried both sitting down together & tracking your expenses so he can see exactly where the money is going & so he can see you are only spending it on essentials?

Money_maker

In case you are thinking of starting a family in the future, this really needs to be sorted out now. Get together and spend the evening 'arguing' it out until you're both happy. There is a way through this but it needs communication.

sukysue

I think you should start charging him for nooky ! If he's like my hubbs you will soon be very wealthy lol!

Maz

poet123 wrote: »

Sorry to be blunt, but living with someone like this must be hell. If you were a spendthrift and needed reigning in with money then that would be a different matter. This chap does not know how lucky he is....go visit soem relatives and leave him £40 for the month. Whne you come back my bet is he will realise how petty and unreasonable he is being.

If he doesn't,.... leave him. Life is too short.

I'd leave him £20 seeing as it's only himself he'd have to feed. Or, I'd hand him the cash and ask him to do better.

This guy sounds like a nightmare! Reminds me of Victorian households where the wife had to keep a set of house accounts and had to justify every penny she spent! What century is this bloke living in???

He doesn't know he's born and I'd say your money stretching ability is quite magnificent under the circumstances. I'm afraid I would have told him to eff off!

Scrooge is alive and well and living in your house!!! Try telling him that as a result of his stinginess you can't afford to buy contraception so you won't be playing hunt the sausage for a while, see how fast the cash suddenly becomes available!!

poet123

maz wrote: »

i'd leave him £20 seeing as it's only himself he'd have to feed. Or, i'd hand him the cash and ask him to do better.

This guy sounds like a nightmare! Reminds me of victorian households where the wife had to keep a set of house accounts and had to justify every penny she spent! What century is this bloke living in???

He doesn't know he's born and i'd say your money stretching ability is quite magnificent under the circumstances. I'm afraid i would have told him to eff off!

Scrooge is alive and well and living in your house!!! try telling him that as a result of his stinginess you can't afford to buy contraception so you won't be playing hunt the sausage for a while, see how fast the cash suddenly becomes available!! :d

:T:T:T:T:T:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

MrsTinks

Tongue in cheek part of me can't help myself...

Provide him with an itemised list when you go back to work of hours worked cooking and cleaning and at the bottom of the bill put "other services"... and make sure it is about £50 more than he reacons your half of the bills should be for the time in question When he asks what it's for explain that those would be the "services" you have provided him with in the bedroom Heck the look on his face alone will probably be worth it!