What are your biggest budget busters

moneyistooshorttomention

My pet bugbear is unexpected expenses.

The ones that go - I've not had the amount of use I'm supposed to have from x/y/z - but it needs repairing or replacing.

For instance - I've just thrown out 2 scarves I'd not long back bought. They were only cheap and I bought them on the Internet - but the material is so poor quality it creases like mad. Then there's the house I moved to recently - and duly modernised the electrics and so "How come I've had to have a couple of electrical repairs done since then?" or decorating done on freshly-painted walls and so "How come they told me the walls were ready to paint and didn't tell me they needed to dry some more and then have a watered-down coat of paint first before painting them properly?".

So - yep...that's what gets me personally = when other people waste my money. I'm not so bothered about wasting it myself iyswim (as that's under my control and it's my own fault if I waste it myself).

VJsmum

Eating out - if all four of us go (if DD is home from Uni and DS isn't out at footie) then it's well over £100 but it is a good opportunity for us all to catch up and spend quality time together.

To be fair though, we don't drink to excess, we don't smoke, don't belong to a gym. A lot of our exercise is to walk and cycle, so 'kind of' free. But it is a bit eye popping when we get the bill in a restaurant.

Beenie

It's always wine for me. We spend more on the bottle of wine to go with our dinner than the cost of the meal itself (we are mostly vegetarian so eating is pretty inexpensive). Never mind, we like it and don't plan to give it up.