lemontarts diary of a verging on skint singleton

lemontart

Sat down today and worked out the cost of my addiction to red bull, well mine and the pet teens that is..............based it on the cheapest I can get it a5 69p a can and it came out at over £500 a year.........................now mega depressed as don;t drink, don't smoke and rarely go out other than to the free seats via this site at the cinema, I even looked wholesale prices but only a couple of pounds saving a year if I could get them wholesale in the first place......................

Guess given my outgoings are more than my incomings it is gonna have to go or at least be cut back to a treat now and again.......................:mad:

Also used the demotivator tool to check my now £2.00 a week hot chocolate habit from the drinks machine at work...............so have bought a tin of hot chocolate powder for 99p in a cheapo shop (cadbury's of course, a gal has to have something nice ) and put a mug and a spoon in my bag for work so that should half that expense too.

So cut backs to day should save me in excess of £550 in one yr .............now don't anyone talk to me for a few days whilst I and my pet teen go cold turkey on the red bull...........................!!!!!!

Gemmzie

Also, it's not very good for you. So that's another reason to ditch it.

Got an SOA for us to attack lemon?

CRANKY40

I was the same as you, and thought of it as my only treat, but Gemmzie is right, it is bad for you.

I managed to wean myself off it thankfully.

sunflower76

have you tries the own brand red bull type drink? Aldi do six cans of their version for £1.29 so this would save you £343 based on two cans a day. I gave it up earlier this year when I started having palpitations!

lemontart

whats a soa - yes tried the cheap versions, yuk as I only drink one can a day might as well give it up pet teen drinks same so both going to try even if we manage to restrict it to a week end treat it will be a saving

Snaggles

Saving it for a weekend treat sounds like a fantastic idea!

I'm allergic to caffeine though, so I've never tried it!

PasturesNew

I did the same calculation with Pepsi Max the other week.
I was buying in bulk/bogof for value ... and drinking 3 cans a day because I had it available!
Switched to squash instead.
Saving a fortune.

lemontart

PasturesNew wrote: »

I did the same calculation with Pepsi Max the other week.
I was buying in bulk/bogof for value ... and drinking 3 cans a day because I had it available!
Switched to squash instead.
Saving a fortune.

thats what I found I was doing when I bought a lot of it ................not good........now trying to work out cost of a cuppa black with two sugars using tetley tea bags comes out around 3p or less if I use the bag twice.............lol can't find a coffee I like as much as filter coffee so tend not to buy any unless have friends coming over.

lilmissmup

Tesco Kick tastes exactly the same as red bull and is £1.39 for 6 cans. I love Red Bull but will never buy it again unless in a pub!

Squirrel29

Red Bull gives me the runs really bad, maybe I should get addicted too, could probably lose a couple of stone by Xmas but wouldn't spend anything as wouldn't be able to leave the bathroom!:rotfl:

Gemmzie

Kick it, it's nasty!

An SOA is list of incomings and outgoings, so we can see if we can make you less skint