What have YOU cut?

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

2012 will see the cuts begin in earnest that will add impetus to the next leg down. With household finances squeezed, what have YOU cut to help you and yours through these difficult times. This question clearly doesn't apply to those average folk among you who have £321,000 to play with.

The SecondLegDown household have cut a few things:

• Sky TV (cut in 2008, not due to affordability, but because we watch littleTV.) We tend to buy DVD boxed sets of series we enjoy. But mostly we get it on instead of watching TV.
• Wheelie Bin Cleaning (I do it myself)
• Window Cleaner (I do it myself. I cut him mainly because he sent a lackey to do the job who liked to refer to me as mate and pal, call me old fashioned but I like customers to be refered to with manners and respect.)
• Mobile Phone Contracts (I now use PAYG and I have used less than £20 in a year, Mrs NextLegDown has used about £30.)

Buy_It_Now

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne wrote: »

The SecondLegDown household have cut a few things

The point is, YOU are paying ever increasing RENT! Ask those people on a tracker mortgage if they need to cut down on anything? Working home owners have MORE money in their pockets, so don't need to make cuts!

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

No. My rent has remained the same for 2 years. My landlord is a tenant himself of a tied agricultural property. He has informed me that he has no intention of increasing my rent as it covers his mortgage payments and he approves of the way we conduct ourselves.

Aberdeenangarse

I expect MrRee will be along shortly to tell us he's stopped using his Yacht in the Winter

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

Your legs have been straddled so wide for so long that it's a wonder you're still capable.

I bet you couldn't stop a pig in a passage.

What a strange response and oddly personal too. I suspect you must be a tw@.

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne

Eton_Rifle wrote: »

I'm not the one discussing his sex life on a public forum!

Neither am I, but you ARE the one making a discussion of a stranger's sex life on a public forum.

Why make your post at all, Eton Rifle? Like a comment from the back of the class, it added nothing and extracted a lightness of heart.

societys_child

Sky TV - cut it out many years ago
Wheelie Bin Cleaning - always done it myself
Window Cleaner ditto
Mobile Phone Contracts - your spending over twice as much a year as me 'n' the missus

My incomes up and outgoings are down. so not really cutting down on anything.

4. I will buy your house for a song.
nah . . you'll never sing well enough

wymondham

Sky TV - never had it - freeview only for us!
Wheelie Bin Cleaning - never cleaned them and why would you?
Window Cleaner wipe them over occasionally when it looks like fog
Mobile Phone Contracts - a few quid a week

chewmylegoff

Nothing. I suspect like many people, since I haven't been fired the recession/crisis is having no effect on me. Just as the average person doesn't have £321k of net wealth (because most of the wealth is heavily concentrated into the hands of the top 10% and the mean average is therefore very different to the median average), most people are also not feeling much pain really, as the pain and cuts are concentrated into the minority who have been sacked or had pay cut.

JonnyBravo

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne wrote: »

2012 will see the cuts begin in earnest that will add impetus to the next leg down. With household finances squeezed, what have YOU cut to help you and yours through these difficult times. This question clearly doesn't apply to those average folk among you who have £321,000 to play with.

The SecondLegDown household have cut a few things:

• Sky TV (cut in 2008, not due to affordability, but because we watch littleTV.) We tend to buy DVD boxed sets of series we enjoy. But mostly we get it on instead of watching TV.
• Wheelie Bin Cleaning (I do it myself)
• Window Cleaner (I do it myself. I cut him mainly because he sent a lackey to do the job who liked to refer to me as mate and pal, call me old fashioned but I like customers to be refered to with manners and respect.)
• Mobile Phone Contracts (I now use PAYG and I have used less than £20 in a year, Mrs NextLegDown has used about £30.)

Ermm, nothing I think.

Sky TV - Never had it
Wheelie Bin Cleaning - Wheely bin cleaning??? !!!!!!?? I'll manage to do it myself.... if it ever needs it thanks.
Window Cleaner - do it myself
Mobile Phone Contracts - work supply. I have actually NEVER paid a penny on a mobile phone/contract/top-up etc.

I do the food shop carefully. I'm more into buying stuff when it comes on offer to tide us over to next time it comes on offer. There's lots of stuff I seemingly never pay full price for. Of course how much of that is a saving and how much the usual price ramp to drop it is up for debate.
We drink less nowadays, but that's just age not money


edit: I'm not sure I should be answering anyway. I don't have £321k to "play with" but I have a net worth higher than that. I'm sure lots of people do once they include their house though

The_White_Horse

SecondLegDownIsTheBigOne wrote: »

Neither am I, but you ARE the one making a discussion of a stranger's sex life on a public forum.

Why make your post at all, Eton Rifle? Like a comment from the back of the class, it added nothing and extracted a lightness of heart.

yes you are. you clearly said you "get it on" instead of watching tv.