Help need to train hubby OS

leiela

helzbelz_57 wrote: »

ha. mine went to asda on saturday after we had a row and purposely bought andrex toilet roll because he knew it would crack me up that it wasnt SP!! consider yourself lucky he's trying to save.

Haha my husbands a right snob ... if i buy SP he feels the need to hide the wrapper heaven forbid anyone see's it!!!

Penelope_Penguin

1sttimer wrote: »

What a plonker - does anyone else have a OH who thinks he's saving money whilst spending it?

Hi there :beer: My DH is pretty good :kisses3: and we're lucky enought to have similar outlooks on spending

I'll add this to the existing thread on encouraging DHs to be OS.

Penny. x

emay

leiela wrote: »

haha at least your OH knows where the shops are, mine wouldn't know where to find asda never mind how to shop, goodness knows what he's do if anything happened to me, he'd prolly stand staring at the fridge wondering why it didn't magically re-fill .

lol...you've just reminded me of when I used to work on the deli counter (when it was a proper counter and not all pre-packed) and we'd get blokes doing the shopping because their wife was ill, and they'd ask for cheese...which one...I don't know ...what colour... ...is it strong... ... this went on for a while!!!

FairyElephant_2

1sttimer wrote: »

Saturday night my OH was at our local ASDA around 8pm and they were reducing their bread to 5p! He decided to get a few loaves/teacakes (9 to be exact:eek: !). That may have been ok if we could have frozen them, but the freezer's choc-a-bloc with food including loaves of bread :rolleyes: .

Ha ha - that's the sort of thing I would do, rather than my DH (just can't resist those 'whoopsie' stickers - LOL!). You can always make a loaf last longer by turning it into a bread pudding! I know you are on a diet, but as cakey-things go, BP is not too bad (at least it has fruit in it too!). I make all my own bread now, but purposefully buy cheap sliced stuff when it is reduced, to make BP with!

On the original topic - my DH was not too bad when we got together, but he did have a thing for the occasional branded stuff (have now converted him to 'own brand' on pretty much everything).
He also was convinced that he HAD to use the recommended amount of stuff like washing powder...until I pointed out that when I do the washing it is just as clean, and I use half the amount!
He also had a tendancy when on his own to just buy whatever he fancied for tea, without doing a proper meal plan, so his diet was not the healthiest or cheapest!

I convinced him by working out how much we save by 'doing it my way', and showing him on my spreadsheet that if we paid the savings we made into the mortgage we'd pay it off X years early, and save X amount in interest payments...and we could still have holidays! (I think it was the holidays that swung it - he loves to get away!).

Ches

Just keep the monies entirely seperate. My OH gives me HK money and I do the shopping and pay the bills. What he does with the rest is entirely up to him and if he wants to buy take aways, expensive products etc then its his money he is wasting not mine. I certainly don't reimburse him.

halia

Ches wrote: »

Just keep the monies entirely seperate. My OH gives me HK money and I do the shopping and pay the bills. What he does with the rest is entirely up to him and if he wants to buy take aways, expensive products etc then its his money he is wasting not mine. I certainly don't reimburse him.

ouch, couldnt' do that - I mean how could it work? Its our house, our kid, our bills - if either one of us goes and blows cash on anything then it is both of us who suffer.

DH isn't too bad but he does resent the scrimping - I find the best way is to chant price comparisons - every £x earned is a day sooner you can leave your job/ a day less interest on the mortgage/ a row of tiles for the bathroom.

squirrelchops

Hi all,

Been with my OH 2 years and he is still in 'training'! As I am a student and he pays the bills I contribute by food shopping and cooking.

Before we met he would eat ready meals for dinner......not cheapo ones but 'finest' or 'taste the difference' you get my drift.

Anyway, when he commented to me that I spent in a week what he would over a weekend I think he began to see he was rather OTT!

Hence I have a budget I keep to each week and cook him home made meals. I do try and teach him some easy meals but he just doesn't enjoy cooking. I asked him 'if we split up would you cook for yourself now'...I was all chirpy and pleased that he had learnt some new things to get a loud resounding 'NO'!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Anyway, he still spends £ on food as works night shifts and doesn't always want whatever I have cooked so I bung it in the freezer.

The way i see it is that he earns good money so if he wants to eat whtver he can but also am aware that he has reined his spending in.

I was amazed when he came home from Tesco having bought some jeans he loved for £15......normally you can't prise him away from £50+ Levis!

squirrelchops

AND I have sneaked in some cheapo loo roll!! Normally I just can't....my poor peachy bum!!!!!!!!

He hasn't realised it's not super quilted stuff yet so watch this space!!

nodwah

freyasmum wrote: »

Like the toilet roll fairy :rolleyes:

I:)

Q: How many men dos it take to change a toilet roll?


A: nobody knows - it's never happened!:rotfl:

rosemarym_2

Mine does not like value toilet paper, so the compromise is that we can have nice toilet pap if it's on offer. Unless he goes shopping and then it's 9 rolls of Andrex ...