Whats the biggest sacrifice you've made in your debt free journey?!

MsRed1

Was gonna buy a new printer but don't really need one. Also got so many printer cartridges it's not worth it.

Lottebear

We have not made huge ones but things like not getting a new car, having one holiday a year, we did go away more than this but more because we lived in rented accomadation separately.

Making do with what we have, ie I have not taken any clothes to the charity shop for over 2 years and the ones we have fallen apart before we got rid!

Ebayed anything we don't like or use from old outdoors kit to clothes. We don't drink in pubs only at home or other people houses. If we eat out it is with Tesco vouchers or a BOGOF voucher.

BabyBetty

I decided I was not going on holiday until I cleared the debt. Also taking lunches into work and not overspending in general.

I also think twice about what I am buying and take stuff back once I realise I don't need it.

BB

DanielleNic87

I have had my acryllic nails taken off :-) only been 2 days, but i miss them sooo much!

Paulgonnabedebtfree

The strange thing about it is that I haven't actually missed any of the things I've given up that much once I adapted. I had already stopped drinking and smoking years before due to health rather than money. I'm not one for going out down the pub anyway. As far as the Indian takeaway goes, I haven't actually stopped that completely, I just only do it occasionally these days. Chocolate has been a bit tricky but starting to get used to that now. The mobile phone contract minutes only got used because I had them to use. Since I've been on PAYG (Asda) I've managed on <£7 a month (early days though). If there's live footie on TV that I particularly want to see, I can walk to the pub and watch it for a couple of half lemonades. No need to subscribe to sport channels.
I'm astonished at how financially wasteful my life used to be.

SkintGypsy

I gave up heating. Not all of it, but cut it down to such a degree that my family are alarmed when they visit! I am currently wearing a t-shirt, and long sleeved t-shirt, a jumper and a fleece, but at least I still have snow on my roof, unlike my neighbours. Tsk!

Hey ho, just seems like money wasted at the mo, when it could pay off some debt.

katenut

I've given up the bottle of wine (more nights with wine than without) that i used to get from the local shop on the way home from work. This has led to me giving up smoking very easily - I'm sure that drinking/smoking/being in debt all go hand in hand! Hopefully without the first two the third will go away more quickly, and i'm feeling more positive and less stressed than i have in months! x

maysmummy

The hardest thing, by far from me was giving up eating/drinking out- Takeaways, cups of coffee in Macs, garden centre cafes, meals out, work canteen etc.
It was very hard, but it has also made me realise just how much money we wasted on things like this that we can eat/make HM.

Aputsiaq

coffeetwosugars wrote: »

The only thing I really "treat" myself to is ciggies. So the time has come to try really hard to quit now.

Thats the most shoking thing I have read!
Getting lung cancer, emphyseama, making yourself stink to high heaven and others too is a "treat"!?
Wow, how weird. :eek:

ghostmadlittlemiss

I don't see my boyfriend for months at a time because I can't afford the train fare (and now have a late lecture on a Fri so can no longer take National Express :mad:), I can't remember when I bought new clothes, my neat bob haircut is escaping down my neck, clothes are dried on the radiator whenever possible, I've as good as given up drinking (though that's more through being my friends' designated driver than money), I've ordered one takeout in the last 2 and a half years, I no longer rent DVDs, I don't have shopping delivered, if it's not Sainsbury's Basics it doesn't get bought, I work all the hour my job will let me, the list is endless. But I can see light at the end of the tunnel. Just one last push and it's over.
Kayleigh