'can't help it' spends

antonic

I normally go to work with just £1 in my pocket, so I can buy my daily paper.

I take all my own food/drink to work so I dont get ripped off.

flyinggiraffe_2

I'm a magazine buyer. Can't resist the glossy pages. I know that it's usually all adverts but it doesn't stop me.

I possibly spend £20 a month on magazines. I can afford it, but when you think that's £240 a year it seems a bit excessive.

Treadmill

Energy drinks get me, quite often on offer but still expensive if you drink two a day £2:20 for two for example, I have been trying for years to quit them. Just found 3x Black sun energy drink for £1 at farm foods so that's a bit more manageable.

Treadmill

WantToBeSE wrote: »

I agree with determined new mrs- dont take your purse/wallet out with you.

I think not wasting money becomes almost like a habit. This time last year i could have easily spent £20 a day on rubbish that i didnt need, like sweets, lottery, wine, notebooks (my weakness)...but now i probably spend less than that a month on those things

I am the same for notebooks, there is just something desirable about a decent notebook, carrying a moleskine is the closest I will ever get to being Hemingway :-)

poppasmurf_bewdley

This thread shows how many people spend, and how much money is chucked away, on ...... junk!

bexiboo92

sweetilemon wrote: »

Unfortunately I have expensive taste in candles :eek: buying the white company and molton brown ones...they smell so good! Must try harder

Have you tried Yankee candles....!?

sweetilemon

poppasmurf_bewdley wrote: »

This thread shows how many people spend, and how much money is chucked away, on ...... junk!

That is kind of the point of the thread... :S I'm not in debt, so maybe the wrong place to post, but its just the little temptations that mount up. At the time of spend i think 'its just £1/£2/£5 and after a hard days work surely I shouldn't grudge myself a little treat' but when the £20 note I took out the bank is gone I always think it could have been better spent, something to show for it.

Money_Bunny

Been a bit of a disaster since one of those Express supermarkets opened up outside my office - so tempting just to nip in for a little treat to cheer me up.

But I think I've cracked the impulse internet shopping thing. If I absolutely have to buy something I go to Oxfam Online - at least if I don't really need it its cheap and its bringing benefit to someone.

poppasmurf_bewdley

sweetilemon wrote: »

That is kind of the point of the thread... :S I'm not in debt, so maybe the wrong place to post, but its just the little temptations that mount up. At the time of spend i think 'its just £1/£2/£5 and after a hard days work surely I shouldn't grudge myself a little treat' but when the £20 note I took out the bank is gone I always think it could have been better spent, something to show for it.

I agree. I wasn't being critical of anyone, I was just making a general observation. I don't think many of us realise just how much money is spent on 'junk' - ie items we don't need and can easily exist without. Indeed many people probably can't remember this week what they spent a lot of money on last week, but at the time they probably considered their purchase 'important' and 'necessary'.

yellowduck_2

good to know there are other notebook addicts out there! When I feel the urge to splurge on things I want rather than need I go on Amazon and add a load of things to my wish list which has categories for all my weaknesses such as jewellery, candles, music and books. Seems to work. The rest of the time I stay out of shops as much as possible and also take only enough cash with me for my working day.