Does hearing about other people's expenditure ever get you down?

nearlyrich

I don't have to be as frugal as I once needed to be but I despise wasting money and I much prefer saving the pennies and would be more inclined to brag about how little I spent on something than how much I have spent. I love a bargain always will...

Homersimpson

Vince_Venison wrote: »

The funny thing is that really rich people are usually very careful with their money - drive round in old cars, and happily show off charity shop buys, because they are so rich they aren't insecure. In my line of work I deal with millionaires and people with very little, and in my experience it is only the people who are trying to pretend to be something they aren't who show off about their money. The rich don't need to.

I quite agree, the richest man I know wears a donkey jacket and drives a lorry but he owns a lot of commercial property ands runs several sucessful companies.

debtfree2010

A sad woman taking the mickey out of you to make herself feel better!!

I used to spend £130 a week on shopping, but hubby being made redundant, me falling pregnant....fast forward 5 years and we are 57grand in debt, I carried on living as if my hubby were still working, all racked up on CC's :mad:

Everyone thinks we are comfortable couldnt be more wrong, i now do a shopping list and have cut down to £80 a week, 2 adults, 1 teen and 1 5 yr old!! I will try and cut this down again to about £60 if i can..

Dont let her get to you, nasty cow!!

ani_26

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

If she wants to spend that amount on food thats up to her, but personally I think its very wasteful.

I had to say to a friend last night that I couldnt meet up with her for a drink. I just cant afford it. I dont think she really understood because she is in a very good position financially. I guess until you have walked in our shoes you dont know what its like.

When my friend says she is skint she is probably down to her last thousand pounds in the bank (and I dont mean that in a nasty way). I dont think she could really understand how anyone couldnt find £20-£30 to go for a drink but my circumstances are very different.

I think there are definitely varying definitions of being skint. But only those who have been truly skint, know exactly what it feels like. But what goes around, comes around, or so they say.

chezmck

what tosh but I do like the saying
"a fool and there money are easily parted!"
what kind of nut spends £800 a month?

pointypenguin

ColleenPamela wrote: »

I have got to admit that me eating at work helps a lot, so if I'm on a 15 hour shift the only food that goes out of the house is a jam sandwich. My cooking tends to be very plain, and I cook up huge batches of curries, spag bols, lasagnes, etc. Anything that doesn't get eaten gets frozen, or packed off to work with OH for his dinner the next day. Pasta bakes with a handful of whatever meat I have going spare thrown in helps. I don't buy anything in the way of treats at all-if we want something sweet, I'll bake a batch of cupcakes, which as I've got huge packs of all the basics only costs me two eggs! So I spend £40 at Mr A, and £40 at F*rmf**ds. Top up shops weigh in at about £3 per week and come out of my personal spending money, or any grocery money we have left. This is only my second month of trying it out like this but it's working better and better every month as I get to know what to buy where. It's a little more time consuming than throwing tonnes of ready meals in the trolley, but it works for us!

I think you should be proud of being so frugal with your food shopping and still be eating well. I wish we did half as well as you I think we spend double that a month.

Ignore this stupid woman, there are always people that make themselves feel better by putting others down. I agree she might not be in debt and can afford to spend that much but she has no right to try and make other people feel bad about their lives.

Cyril

YORKSHIRELASS wrote: »

If she wants to spend that amount on food thats up to her, but personally I think its very wasteful.

I had to say to a friend last night that I couldnt meet up with her for a drink. I just cant afford it. I dont think she really understood because she is in a very good position financially. I guess until you have walked in our shoes you dont know what its like.

When my friend says she is skint she is probably down to her last thousand pounds in the bank (and I dont mean that in a nasty way). I dont think she could really understand how anyone couldnt find £20-£30 to go for a drink but my circumstances are very different.

A good friend brings a bottle round to you

I knew a woman who was friends with another lady in huge debt and when she couldn't afford to come out for dinner this so called friend offered to pay. Which she did but also making sure everyone at the table knew about it :mad:

Not much of a friend at all tbh.