Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

michaels

75 is our weekly supermarket (food, toiletries, household goods, etc) spend for a family of 5.

There was also this thing about '4 gifts' - our kids get 1 gift each from us and even then I feel the house is over-cluttered and worry about the environmental impact. I thought I was pretty profligate environmentally but based on the bbc website comments most are completely unaware.

vivatifosi

For a typical week I spend about £50 per week on food, plus extra on non food groceries such as toiletries and detergents.

Asda does a box of the little veggie spring rolls pastures, they are £1 for 12. You have to eat a lot of takeaway to get to that high a spend.

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

For a typical week I spend about £50 per week on food, plus extra on non food groceries such as toiletries and detergents.

Asda does a box of the little veggie spring rolls pastures, they are £1 for 12. You have to eat a lot of takeaway to get to that high a spend.

My figures are closer to £10-12/week for all food/treats and £2-3/week for "other".

A typical takeaway for me is just one main and one side, £8-9. I've not got a good takeaway round here, so I don't bother, but I used to have 1-2 takeaways/year in the past.

I do like the Asda range - I'm just not near to one, so never bother to make the 12 mile round trip more than about once a year. The distance just isn't worth the effort/cost for the few pieces I could buy there.

It's probably my complete food apathy that's lead to me losing over a stone in weight in the last 12 months or so.

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

We're planning to drive up to Sheringham on Christmas Day. It's one of the best days in the year for driving. Between 12 and 2, the roads are virtually clear of traffic. Bah! Humbug!

Reminds me of the time a few years ago when I had to drive up the M3 and M25 between 5.30am and 7.30am on Christmas Day morning.
I only saw one other vehicle the whole way, a lorry.

It was absolute bliss! A never-to-be-repeated experience!

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

My figures are closer to £10-12/week for all food/treats and £2-3/week for "other".

A typical takeaway for me is just one main and one side, £8-9. I've not got a good takeaway round here, so I don't bother, but I used to have 1-2 takeaways/year in the past.

I do like the Asda range - I'm just not near to one, so never bother to make the 12 mile round trip more than about once a year. The distance just isn't worth the effort/cost for the few pieces I could buy there.

It's probably my complete food apathy that's lead to me losing over a stone in weight in the last 12 months or so.

Is that the maximum spend your budget will allow?

Pyxis

GDB2222 wrote: »

Our youngest son is coming home from uni on 22 Dec, so we'll have a few days at home together, then go to Sheringham. Saturday night (the 24th) is the first night of Chanukah, so we'll celebrate that at home with the family.

Oooh! So Chanukah coincides with Christmas this year!
How lovely!



Christmas Eve is a dire time to travel. You and everyone else in the world! Trains* and planes must be about the worst, but I imagine the motorways are packed too.




* How did autocarrot manage to turn trains into pralines just now? :rotfl:

Pyxis

I don't know what I spend weekly.:(

That may sound extravagant or foolish, but it isn't really. It's just that my frequency of food,etc. shopping varies an awful lot.

I get an organic box thing every week, but the contents vary each week, as some things last me for two weeks. That normally costs between £28 and £45 depending on which week out of a four-week cycle it is. And I repeat, a lot of it lasts two weeks at least, more if I cook and freeze.

Because I get that box,I don't go to the supermarket every week. Some months it might be once a month, or even less frequently. I think the longest .i went was 3months! I go when I start running out of stuff I don't get from the weekly box. Then, when I do go, I tend to stock up as much as possible of the things I like but can't get elsewhere, IYSWIM, and if they're on a special offer, I'll get loads, loo rolls, teabags, pasta etc. and jars/cans, cleaning materials,toiletries, etc.
So that bill can be huge, but can last 3 or more months! Longer in the case of jars and cans! And as I don't go very often, I save on the petrol etc.

My main extravagance is if I'm in "I must have a treat" mode. Visits to the local mini-supermarkets that are, unfortunately, within walking distance can really bump up my spends. I tend to do more of that in the winter due to SAD, or because I'm not feeling well physically and am running out of something quick and easy to microwave.


One day, (watch out for pink porcine things with wings), I should do a three-month tally of my shopping expenditure and see what it averages out at on a weekly basis.

bugslet

PasturesNew wrote: »

Why go that date?
When/where possible I've always preferred to travel the evening before, so I can wake up in the right place, rather than having to get up and then do the drive. That'd me even more true on that date.

When working you get 2 days off - so there were a number of years when I've finished work on Xmas Eve at 6pm, then driven 350 miles to my parents' house.... returning on Boxing Day evening.

I've never worked anywhere that didn't shut down over Xmas. In 25 years of working for myself, we've done one job between Xmas and NY, which was clearing the fireworks factory in Lewes when it blew up

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/dec/04/davidpallister.uknews2

otherwise all you can hear is the sound of Bugs Transport drivers gently snoozing after their mince pies over the festive season. A friends drivers start back at work on Xmas Day evening, moving those all important mushrooms to the supermarkets.

I probably spend about £75.00 for one person and four dogs a week. I tend to be profligate, but I don't care, I hate cooking and I'm short on time.

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

One day, (watch out for pink porcine things with wings), I should do a three-month tally of my shopping expenditure and see what it averages out at on a weekly basis.

Many people are surprised when they add it up as they only see the main shopping items.

I had one online friend who swore her and her bf only spent about £20/week on shopping ... and even when she said everything she couldn't see that "she wasn't seeing it".

She'd go into Farmfoods and spend about £20.
Then into M&S and spend about £15.
They had a takeaway twice a week.
They both had lunch at work - him in a canteen, her from a local shop.

But she still swore blind that they spent £20/week
She only counted the Farmfoods shopping! Couldn't get through to her.

SingleSue

I get a fortnightly Ocado delivery which works out at approx £50(for the fortnight not a week) and then buy a few consumable/forgotten due to brain fog top up items at the supermarket. When the other two come home, that increases a fair amount!

Tonight is shepherds pie, which will be enough for two days for the two of us for a cost of around £3.00

It's a wee bit foggy today.....