Massively in debt! Help please?

iris

You are in this together and if you don't pull together you won't make it work.


I think £300 a month is plenty for food. Why don't you try Aldi, there is a £5 off a £40 spend in the Mirror on Thursday and you will get loads of food for that.


There is just the two of us and we spend less than £150 a month easily.


Try Farmfoods - eggs are £1 for 15, 2 litres of milk x 2 is £1.60, 2 loaves of Hovis £1.60. 1 kilo of fresh chicken breasts £5, 1 kilo of marg £1, large block of butter £1 and the list goes on. Bake your own cakes, much healthier and cheaper. I bake a lemon curd cake and the ingredients work out at 65p (that's for the whole cake!) and it cuts into 8/10 large slices.


Also you can get your MOT for less than £50. There are always offers for MOTs for £25, even our Mercedes dealer charges less than £50.


Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.

fuzzyhead1

iris wrote: »

You are in this together and if you don't pull together you won't make it work.


I think £300 a month is plenty for food. Why don't you try Aldi, there is a £5 off a £40 spend in the Mirror on Thursday and you will get loads of food for that.


There is just the two of us and we spend less than £150 a month easily.


Try Farmfoods - eggs are £1 for 15, 2 litres of milk x 2 is £1.60, 2 loaves of Hovis £1.60. 1 kilo of fresh chicken breasts £5, 1 kilo of marg £1, large block of butter £1 and the list goes on. Bake your own cakes, much healthier and cheaper. I bake a lemon curd cake and the ingredients work out at 65p (that's for the whole cake!) and it cuts into 8/10 large slices.


Also you can get your MOT for less than £50. There are always offers for MOTs for £25, even our Mercedes dealer charges less than £50.


Good luck and I hope everything works out for you.

It isn't the cost of the mot that's the issue, its the bits and bobs that often need doing to get it to pass! There's always a bald tyre or two, brake pads etc etc. The car gets lots of use so things wear out.

There isn't an Aldi or Farm foods anywhere near us. It would cost of fortune in petrol to get to one! Do you two also have to feed yourselves within the sort of dietary restrictions i mentioned? Our food didn't used to cost much either but once you have four mouths to feed with the issues i mentioned its not so easy.