Persuading my parents to be OS

sammy_kaye18

Im having the same problem with my sister.

There is just her,her 1 year old daughter and her 8 week old puppy to feed.

She gets nearly £520 a month (her housing and council tax paid for her) and she pays quarterly on her gas and electric (£40 a month) so she has £480 to spend on food and anythign else etc - she doesnt get help form her little ones dad either.

Anywya i found out she is spending nearly £250 on food shopping each month:eek: !! she has no home phone, no inteernet, gets free minutes and texts on her phone (£17.99 a month contract) and the other £200 she blows on clothes, cigarettes, going out and takeaways!!!!!!:mad:

and then complains to me that she has no money at the end of the month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

good god - she asked em yesterday too if i wanted a hallogen heater and a gas fire (the type on wheels) because she thinks its ugly and she doesnt want it. so shes sending it my way now.Shes always got the heating on too - always runnign round in shorts and tshirts and leaves the kitchen on eup really high at night for the dog!!!! shes mid terrace too whcih is what bugs me because it aint exactly a cold house!!!

whilst heres me in a flat - my dogs in a jacket cos hes cold, my sons in nappy, trousers, socks, vest, tshirt, jumper and cuddled up on the sofa under his fleecey blanket watching tv and im sat here in my very fetching thermal vest and two tshirts and am considering putting my fleece on cos its bloody freezing!!!!

Pooky

My parents are much the same, although I did talk them into getting a BM and SC but they do seem to spend a silly amount of food each week.

At the end of the day though, it's their money and you can't make them do what they don't want to do. If the problems with your Dads health haven't made them realise that they need to change their way of living then I don't think there's much you can do. Obviously you can suggest different reciepes, maybe invite them round for dinner and show them how easy it is to cook something from good cheap ingrediants. Maybe take round one of your till reciepts to compare, I know my parents are very set in their ways about brands...will only have heinz beans etc and even buy the microwave sunday roasts as Mum swears it's cheaper than cooking a proper one for just the two of them.....no accounting for taste.

Maybe you could stear them in this sites direction or if they're not "pc" people then treat them to a slow cooker for christmas (there's one on offer in tesco at the mo for £9.99) and print of a few pages of reciepes and maybe a price list by the side/joint of meat guide etc.

Penny-Pincher!!

My mum is exactly the same and wastes so much money on food, its unbelievable! She only shops at M&S and they spend about £100+ a week on food for the 2 of them and they eat at my sisters twice a week:eek: :eek: :eek:

Most of mums money is spent on Oragnic fruit and veg, which is fine but she ends up throwing most away and never uses it wisely in soups/stews etc.

They eat good meals but they are just so overpriced as many are part cooked and just need throwing in the oven.

I really cant be ar$ed anymore saying about it and I used to be exactly the same 2 years ago. Its their money and they have worked hard for it, but if they want to waste it on overpriced food and being wasteful...thats up to them...I give up!!

PP
xx

Rikki

Bogof_Babe wrote:

Do they partake of the fruits of the vine, or the hop yard? Soon mounts up if they do that regularly. (Speaking as one who knows about these things ).

I wondered why my food bill was a little high on occassions.