Spending review - if you dare

twi1ight

I was sitting at my desk today, daydreaming away when I suddenly realised...

I have bought 10 pairs of shoes this year! :eek:

I'm off to work out how much they cost in total. I had absolutely no idea I was such a frivolous spender. I thought I was pretty good and hardly ever treated myself - clearly not

Then in the car on the way home I was listening to Martin on Radio 2 and he mentioned his 12, 52, 250, 365 rule and it inspired me to come on here and confess. So come on, have a look back at 2007 and see where your money has really gone. How much have those little treats cost you?

twi1ight

Right, I've just worked it out and the 10 pairs come to a grand total of £326! Yikes. Some of that was birthday money but even so, that's no excuse.

Anyone else??

I'm going to work out the haircuts now.

OliveOyl_2

Oh I wish you hadn't mentioned haircuts :eek: :eek:
and I still have my hair coloured


That's nearly £450 this year
(but I do look gorgeous)

hypno06

On the positive side.....with so many shoes in your cupboard, you won't need to spend money on them in 2008!

OliveOyl_2

Hypno, you Always come up with something positive and encouraging!
How do you do it?

hypno06

OliveOyl wrote: »

Hypno, you Always come up with something positive and encouraging!
How do you do it?

It's my job.....

betti911

I have been good on the shoe front this year... only 1 pair from Primark £6! As for hair prob at least £200 this year cause I too get it coloured.

Fur156

Speaking of shoes, I still have a pair that I brought in debenhams in the year 2000. Cost me £20 then, and all I have done to them is change the laces once.

In January I will be keeping all the reciepts from anything I purchase and writing down when I spend money.. This will show any area's that I waste money on.

twi1ight

hypno06 wrote: »

On the positive side.....with so many shoes in your cupboard, you won't need to spend money on them in 2008!

True. Although most of them were impulse buys. Now I can see how much I really spent, I wish I'd been careful and bought 3 beautiful, well planned pairs which could have lasted years.

I'm still plucking up the courage to look back on my diary and count the haircuts to add them up.

Gemmzie

Money does that for me at the end of the year, very very scary reading :eek:

itsnever2lateisit?

Haven't bought a pair of shoes for over 10 years, and as for haircuts thanks for pointing out to me the advantage of being bald:o :rotfl: