What little things have you been priced out of?

savingmummy

I dont buy magazines anymore and miss them, I used to buy quite a few `home` magazines and the costs were stupid!!!
My local library don`t appear to do them either which is a nuisance as i was hoping to catch up while i`m down there with the children LOL!

marywooyeah

I often take my own lunch or go to the frozen food shop nearby to get a ready meal for around £1, definitely think twice over taking the car out (I paid my insurance in one go and pay myself what equals to a monthly payment back into a savings account so that after 12 months I should have the same amount back), days out, I don't have takeaway hot drinks and have takeaway foods around once a month as opposed to once or twice a fortnight.

I rarely use meat other than sausages in cooking now and make a lot of vegetable based dishes (from the local market or lidl as the price in supermarkets has increased too much). I can't afford to buy clothes in high street shops so get a lot of clothes off ebay or sales, scourer facebook or gumtree for things we might need around the house eg a new set of drawers after ours broke.

I never thought I'd see the day that we both work fulltime and have to scrimp so much.

aylithuk

1, Buying lunch from Boots/supermarket (£15 p/w now £2.50 p/w as packup)

2, New Books (£7.99 now Free from the library)

3, Beauty Waxing (£48 p/m now Free as I got a home kit costing £33 in total for the wax pot, wax strips and spatulas)

4, Haircut (£34.50 every 6 weeks now £34.50 every 8 weeks)

I am the only wage earner in the house currently. OH been looking for a job since July last year so I had to cut my little extras to nothing really.

BitterAndTwisted

grey_lady wrote: »

Well I'm stunned that Jojo wont buy meat and yet spends £35 on cat food! to be fair I've probably got the wrong end of the stick on that.

This thread has been an eyeopener.

Yes, you have got the wrong end of the stick, by a million miles actually.

Jojo's daughter receives money from her father for essential items like books. But she spunked the money on something else, possibly not totally vital and not mentioned. Then conned Jojo into buying them, leaving her a whole £35 short. No laughing matter when things are tighter than a duck's @rse to the degree that Jojo is denying herself small luxuries and giving her daughter two-thirds of what food is cooked.

I'd have told that girl she would have to do without her precious books until the next Daddy-money payment came through. After I'd given her a good clip round the ear.

juno

grey_lady wrote: »

Well I'm stunned that Jojo wont buy meat and yet spends £35 on cat food! to be fair I've probably got the wrong end of the stick on that.

This thread has been an eyeopener.

I think it's more that now there wasn't that £35 there wasn't the £5 for cat food and £30 for whatever else.

marmiterulesok

Jojo_the_Tightfisted wrote: »

I've also stopped having milk in drinks, so have black coffee and don't have more than a couple of cups of tea a week.

Have you considered using powdered milk?This is what I do.You can make up whatever quantity you need and it has never gone off.I can't taste any real difference to proper milk.

victory

http://www.dobbies.com/

We have just had a dobbies opened up around here and went for a look, it is massive and sells masses but the prices:eek: my OH said 'give it a year and it will go bust':rotfl::rotfl: we never bought a thing not even a seed:rotfl:

Abbafan1972

Magazines - I never really used to buy "Womens" mags anyway, but I still subscribe to Computer Active & Webuser, because I can learn about stuff, rather than reading about "celebrities" I've never even heard of!

Newspapers - I don't buy Newspapers anymore unless there's a really good freebie. If I want to read the news, then I look on the internet. I only tend to read the local free paper that drops through the door on a Friday or the Metro on the bus.

I very rarely buy sandwiches for work and always take my own packed lunch.

I used to have Chiropodist treatment when hubby worked for a particular company and we could claim so much back off it. But now we have to pay for it ourselves, we don't tend to go anymore and I have to do my feet at home, it's not the same as I prefer to sit there for half an hour and let someone else do it. Lovely!

llh189

I have given up the following things:

I hardly use my car at weekends, unless I am forced too.

Stopped buying no7 skin care range, now using aldi's serum

Stopped getting my hair cut and coloured at the salon, now have long hair and use home colour kits

I don't buy summer flowers for my garden

No fancy cleaning products.

Supermarket basics where possible

No cut flowers in the house.

No window cleaning / car valleting.

Stopped driving to see best friends 300 miles away once a month, now just see them twice a year

I turn everything off at the sockets and use lamps and not main lights.

Downgraded sky to £10 per month

Don't use home landline ( although BT just charged me £2.50 for not using it enough)

I got a Monday to Friday lodger :-(

Get shopping delivered once a month to avoid impulse buying

Didn't replace tumble dryer when it broke

My heating is off from March to November.

No weekend coffee and cake outings

No weekend breakfasts out

No papers or magazines at all

No fancy wrapping paper or cards, I buy cards online in bulk and use brown paper with ribbon.

Huh, that's quite a lot and I am still broke :-(

tinktinktinkerbell

stopped basically buying anything thats not essential IE food or pet things, if i buy anything it will be from amazon vouchers from the surveys i do

stopped using heating and hot water a long time ago

stopped going for meals for peoples birthdays

stopped getting subway sandwiches