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

bex0309

Not really a spending issue but as a result of spending DF leaves his receipts all around the house! Half the time he pays by cash so they don't even need to be shredded so can just go in the bin, but I still end up finding them on the sideboard, next to the sink, in the desk drawers and down the back of the sofa! Drives me mad!

mumneedshelp

Wanting to buy things he has no need/use for:

Kindle - he barely reads books
Tablet - he has net access on his phone plus a laptop
Graphics tablet - because pen & paper are sooooooo expensive to draw with (he actually bought this)

Oh and the corker (and reason for our split) - paying his ex-wife way beyond CSA rates for their kid yet buying nothing for our kids and complaining when I buy a cot!

gratefulforhelp_2

Visiting the supermarket with a list and then going off-piste.

Auntie-Dolly

My husband smokes, despite him telling me he would give up when I was pregnant (our son is 13 now!) When I worked out recently what is has cost us, I went mad. We haven't had a holiday for years, drive an ancient car, just had to remortgage to clear debts etc and he was burning £2500 in the garden every year. He's on roll ups now, which is a start I suppose. He also drinks can of coke & eats crisps. Other than that, he's lovely.

Nimeth

I will admit to be the one who spends more on personal things just for me. Latest eye rolling from my OH was over books. I'm a huge book hound and my favourite set of paperbacks are looking distinctly careworn and falling apart (though some are clearly too thick to have decent paperback binding). I'd like to replace them all with hard covers, but to be fair to my OH I said I would only replace one a month and buy them second hand to keep the cost down.

Other than that, we're both pretty good with money, we keep an eye on what comes in and goes out of the account, we don't have credit cards and I do the food shopping with a calculator so I can keep tracking of what I'm spending.

Raspberry_beret

I think his biggest crime has to be giving his mum a credit card on his account (initially done ages ago when he was living at home) and he didn't realize exactly how it worked so he thought she was liable to pay off what she had spent - errrrr, nope - he is liable for it all :mad::mad:. The actual credit card may have her name on it but the account is in his name. By this point, she had spent over £1K on it, paid nothing off and lost her job :eek:.

He had not paid anything towards "her debts" and, as he had been using and paying off "his" spends from the card each month, there was no issue with min payment being met! Her debt was over £2K including all the interest when I managed to explain the situation to him (he kept saying "she has to pay", "I'm going to get her to pay it"). We transferred it to a 0% cc and paid it off as quick as poss (this was just after our wedding when we had spent all our savings!). Gah, it still makes me cross that we could have £2K extra in savings (or we could have had a really nice holiday this year!). Her card expired and he didn't give her a new one, thank god!

Any

Auntie-Dolly wrote: »

He also drinks can of coke & eats crisps. Other than that, he's lovely.

:eek::eek::eek: No way!!
:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl: Seriously now, you think that is a problem? No matter how small?

SueC_2

At a particularly bleak point in the past... bought a 12 month tax disc for the car "because it works out cheaper than just buying 6 months", even though that meant there was no money for food (or anything else) for the rest of the month.

supermonkey

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?

I do this.....

escortg3 wrote: »

OH feeling peckish and eating the ham out of the fridge.

I say oh well theres your sandwhiches and a fiver gone. He says bl**dy hell a fiver. He has no concept of what anything costs, moans when he finds out but continues to eat a pack of ham.:rotfl:

The other thing he does is to tell people he never spends much on clothes, only a odd shirt. But never says i spend about £350 a year on work clothes for him. and also buy all his under wear, jeans and shoes etc.

Heard him telling a mate that £100 per year clothes budget should be adequate. lol:rotfl:

Do you buy ham in Harods?

lozzy88 wrote: »

:rotfl:

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

Tell him not to bother.... save his cash and buy a 50" plasma

delain

OH is quite good really, moans at me because I don't use things and they get thrown away (which I know is a problem!) the only problem he has I think is impulse shopping, going into Sainsburys for milk and bread and coming out £30 lighter.