Spill the beans... What's your partner's worst MoneySaving habit?

sirish1979

lozzy88 wrote: »

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This is my OH too hes trying to convince me that we NEED a 3D tv for the front room.

The above post is the same as my partner. He already spend money on buying a Home theatre, now his eyes are on 3D TV. I am able to hold him from last 3 months dont know how many months I can hold before our saving take a plunge:(

globetraveller

I can come home from work and find 2 tvs, 2 computers and lights on( in broad daylight). He can frequently have the 2 tvs on and not be watching either of them!

scrimperdave

lozlynch wrote: »

You know what, my husband completely refuses to pay to park - ANYWHERE - If and when we go anywhere he will park half a mile away & walk! Or he finds a side road where you are allowed 1 hour to park and says "well thats all we need" I said to him - you would rather line the governments pockets by wasting fuel looking for a space or giving the local council £1.50!! Shocking, very annoying & to the point of deciding never to go out with him again & i'm not joking
Any marriage guidance councellors here?

Get him to drop you off before he parks the car - and pick you up after you've shopped.

Wkdwill

My husband isnt too bad with money mostly because I make sure all the bills etc are paid, his only problem his is definition of the word need, "we need beer", "we need cigs", no love I think you will find that we dont need these things.

Birdie85

My DH is pretty hit and miss with money, sometimes he is fantastic at hunting out bargains and researching the best product at the best price (normally when he's looking for an expensive gadget) but other times he is the king of the impulse and lazy buy! A few weeks ago I was beyond livid with him when he told me that he'd sorted out (without discussing it with me beforehand) an insurance policy through our bank, at a ridiculous price of about £50 a month! Had he actually used his head and shopped around he could have found the same cover for half the price but he just went ahead and signed on the dotted line because it was easy and the lady in the bank was nice! :mad:

On a petty day-to-day scale, he drives me mad by having ham and cheese sandwiches all the time. Ham and cheese are both getting pretty expensive to buy and here he is using loads of it every day! I really have to bite my tongue so I don't sound like his mother telling him that he can have either or! When he makes us tuna melts for lunch he uses 2 tins of tuna (again, not exactly cheap nowadays) and loads of cheese, it makes me cringe how much extra food that he uses! I have tried to ask him to cut down 'for my diet' but he just makes the same wasteful amounts and eats whatever I don't want! IMO he's always using enough ingredients to make 2 meals in 1 when he cooks for himself; beans and scrambled egg and cheese on toast, jacket potato with sausage and beans, bacon and sausage and egg sandwich... I don't know why he has to have so much food at once (and manage to stay as slim as he is!) Whereas I have little tubs with half peppers and onions in the fridge as I don't need to use a whole one in one go and don't see the point in using it all for the sake of it!

Any

globetraveller wrote: »

I can come home from work and find 2 tvs, 2 computers and lights on( in broad daylight). He can frequently have the 2 tvs on and not be watching either of them!

Are you living with my husband?:D

GemA_2

So many familiar stories above... especially with the trail of wasteful destruction and lights left on.

We do everything jointly, and transfer money out to our personal accounts on an ad-hoc basis for occasional purchases. Shopping is done on a reloadable Asda gift card, which gets topped up every payday with £200 for the month, for a family of four, so you can see we're quite thrifty. I manage all the bills, which we're both happy with, because he "doesn't do" organisation or budgetting.

But then... when I'm reviewing the finances, and warning him that we're scraping through tightly with another week to go, he spouts crap like "Stop spending money then!" when he's the one who keeps pilfering £20 notes from my purse which I had withdrawn for a specific *reason*.

He gets very upset if I use my credit card for anything, because he's always lived with his mum and the one lesson she taught him was "Credit cards are evil", whilst she lived happily off a series of rich men. I use it for bulge spends, like unexpected car repairs, and pay back more than the minimum. He was banging on about the sofabed and coffee table I've ordered for the conservatory (£230) until I pointed out that we've lived here for nearly a year and have never been able to use that room properly because there's no furniture in it, AND he's spent more than that on fags since we moved in. But if I actually try to explain my money logic or rationale, he goes all fingers-in-the-ears "yes dear".

On the plus side, he's brilliant at meal planning, cooking, using leftovers to make amazing things, and if he wasn't here I'd survive mostly on toast and wine. And his mother keeps bringing us Ariel and Lenor, because she mistakes my eco-warrior brands for a sign of abject poverty. Not going to sniff at freebies though...

Percy1983

With my better half it has to be her emergency chocolate from the garage, or her owrrying over trival things (£2.50 for budget in a month).

My spreadsheets probably annoy her.

jakes-mum

Thinking his credit card is 'free' money, and believing that the balance on the cash machine is how much money we've got to spend on carp till next payday becasue in his world DD's, council tax, etc dont exist!

avantra

irishrugbyfan wrote: »

My OH pays for the general household bills (it is his house) and I do all the food shopping. I will get shouted at for leaving my mobile phone on charge overnight, or when I dared to buy an alarm clock that didn't run on batteries, yet it is OK for him to throw food away willy-nilly, or complain like heck when I don't buy the premium branded grocery items!

He especially hates it when I buy own-brand toilet paper (this really bugs me), but hasn't noticed when I have recently started buying own-brand (or even value) products and putting them in the premium packaging.... :rotfl:wonder how long I will get away with it?

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I use to do this for years, never got cought