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

Fliss_M

Good lord is there a list! My fav tho is seeing £1.99 and thinking "ooo £1" and so on. Drives me batty!

Kavajo

My wife gets me to pay all the bills and everyday expenses, then tells me she is much better at saving than I am!

retepetsir

We're trying to save for our wedding next year...my fianc!e is very 'spend happy' though and has trouble sticking to a budget.

I originally set the food shopping budget at £60 per week, should be plenty for 2 of us and we meal plan! If she goes shopping on her own its regularly over £100 and I have no idea what she spends that on, so unfortunately we can easily spend £350+ per month on the food shop!

I manage to stick to around £60, so that kind of annoys me! We'd have more money to spend on our wedding then

StressedSam

My hubbies worse habit was to use a credit card in the cash machine as he forgets which card is which. Usually ends up costing £14 to get £10 out!!!

Have now solved this by putting a big sticker on the front of the credit card saying "Not for Cash machine"

spadoosh

I always seem to take cash out but never have any change. Everything is 50/50 but all the change in the house/cars/my pockets is the girlfriends. I can never pay the window cleaner, always have to pay on card for milk and can never get a butty from the van all because im only allowed to use notes.

rubix_76

My DW finds a bargain. Yes you may be saving money, but we didn't really need that !! :mad:

mrshughes86

belfastgirl23 wrote: »

Every time I try to talk to him about money his first panicked question is 'are we f**ked?

Loving this thread, glad it's not just me who feels like I'm banging my head against a wall with the hubby and his lack of money sense!

Belfastgirl this sounds just like my husband!

CompBunny

Opening new purchases (bread, cereal, milk, wraps, bleach, toilet roll etc) before the old one is finished...

Tipping well in restaurants even for very poor service. (but he is a very generous person and I'm a scrooge these days!)

Not using food "efficiently" (making it stretch) or not storing it properly so it goes dry/unhygenic

Putting tea-covered spoons in the sugar bowl.

But I'm just nitpicking really, overall he is pretty good. He has really changed his spending habits in the past year, from hemorrhaging money to being quite thrifty. I used to be awful too - ready meals, buying drinks when out, going out for a drink when there was no money available to do so with, smoking...our lifestyles have totally changed, mainly due to this website.

Instead we have made lots of small compromises. We buy multipacks of bottled water (£1.60 for 12 currently) and take a bottle each when we go out so we don't buy an individual bottle of coke, and each bottle gets reused a couple of times for squash. If we get peckish when out we buy a multipack of crisps (on offer of course) or similar so we have a few packs spare for next time. £1 for a multipack instead of 60p per bag! We gave up smoking, we use more beans and less quorn, and I can't remember the last time we bought takeaway!

Last year my partner would have been very reluctant to make any of these changes, so I have a lot to be thankful for and not too much to moan about!

I'd love to see what he would say about me! "Wasting money on a hair cut only to complain about it for months on end and vowing never to visit a hairdresser again!" and "Insists on buying only organic milk and eggs...yet buys non-organic cheese sometimes?!"

Jenna_of_Usk

Asking me to cut down on the weekly supermarket shop & then buying a case of wine which costs more than the food! ("We need some wine in case someone calls round!")

ElusiveLucy

Being tight and always expecting me to pay more than half for everything.......I'm now unemployed, so this isn't going to be allowed to continue!