What is your MSE bug bear?

MrsE_2

wherediditallgo wrote: »

I'm with you on this one. I get my make-up from the market - £1-£1.50 for a powder compact & 60p for a lipstick. Mascara is never over £1 for the same makes that Boots or Superdrug have. One of my friends believes that if makeup costs under £10, it must be poor quality, so she flatly refuses to buy it from the market, even though she's been with me & has seen total strangers come up & compliment me on how I've applied my make-up & the colour of my lipstick. Every month it's the same song - "Gosh, make-up's getting more & more expensive these days, isn't it?"

I couldn't tell you the last time I paid for perfume. I go to Superdrug or one of the beauty counters in John Lewis & ask if they've got a sample I can take with me. Do that at a few different counters, & I've got enough to last me for ages - it's not as if I wear it every day. However, my friend would prefer to spend upwards of £15 on a perfume because so & so wears it. The words "So & so isn't living on your budget though, is she?" just fall on deaf ears. :rolleyes:

One mans waste is another mans luxury.

I love high-end make-up & am prepared to spend my hard earned money on it.

Its what floats my boat.

We all have different ideas of what treats are.

I hate people ordering everthing on the menu then want to share the costs with everyone else.
The really odd thing is they insist people who don't want to split the costs equally are misers, but surely they are !!!!!!!!!!s expecting others to pick up their tab.

I hate that many in-laws (who don't & won't & never have worked) think we are loaded & can pay for it, because we both work very hard.

I like the heating on full blast when at home, but I use the timer so its only on when we need it.

AND I turn bottles upside down & squeeze the last out of tubes.

painted_lady

Mine are
- the supermarket snobs, my fave one is lidl, cant beat it for most stuff, i even park there for town, 2 mins walk and free.
- brother who thinks I am loaded for working, even though he gets more money than me on benefits and doesnt have his house (in a nice leafy village I cant afford to live) and car free
- neighbour on end spends thousands on keeping up with the Jones's, its got to be quite funny, she must be in debt to her eyeballs because she hasnt got money

When people !!!! me off about money, I just think that i will be retired before them.
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happymonday77

Hmmm I am not sure if its a bug bear but I worry about my friends who keep taking out new loans and cc and cant see that times are tight and everybody should be careful with money.

horsechestnut

Machines that state quite clearly that they don't give change!!! e.g. car parking, coffee machines.
Can you imagine going into a shop and them refusing to give you the 50p change if you only spent £1.50 and gave in £2?

new2civvystreet

Oooh great thread.

One of my major ones is when I buy something like meat for example and then get to the counter and am told it's buy one, get one half price. I decline the offer and the cashier looks at me like I'm an alien.

Now, my reasoning is: The meat is probably dated the next day and I've already got stuff at home for the next day so it won't get eaten. I don't need it, I don't care that it's cheaper - it's still costing me more money for something I don't actually need.

Now, if it was a tin of beans/toilet roll/rice/dried pasta, then I'd be biting the arm off the supermarket to have it!

CarolynH

deeplyindebt wrote: »

trolls make me sick

Yup - just reported a new one.

Folks - don't respond to him/her please - all his/her post will be removed by a mod shortly.

Daz1

Many comments on here I have just had to roll my eyes in recognition. A friend of mine earns twice as much as I do and spends like crazy, new phone, tv subscription package, turntable mixing decks (which are hardly used), piano, gadgets galore, not to mention spending virtually every night out on the town drinking etc, new clothes all the time. He then looks at me when I buy a 6 year old third hand car and says "rich man eh?". He could have bought the same car 6 times over if he was as careful with his money as I am. I prefer to go out to dinner or a movie every month or rent DVDs instead of going out partying. I am satisfied with my PAYG 4 year old phone, I am happy to watch freeview or enjoy a night in with some wine and only go out and paint the town red once in a blue moon. This is why I am "rich" and he is "poor" though you wouldn't think so by comparing our lifestyles.........he looks the part, very flash etc.......I dare not tell him that I bought 5 ties for a fiver from the charity shop or my welsh dresser from the furniture restoration charity place....he might disown me :rotfl:

gozaimasu

Hehe, I was almost going to thank deeplyindebt before I realised they were a troll! They have a point though; that tomatoes example is not a bug bear I agree with! I mean, people can spend their money on what they want, and if they want branded tomatoes with herbs already added, then fair enough, and in which case, it is not wasting money. I wouldn't buy value tinned tomatoes, nor would I buy the posh expensive branded ones...I would probably buy some fresh tomatoes and cut them up myself! If I had to buy tinned ones then I would go for supermarket brand but not value. I have issues with value foodstuffs!

I agree with MrsE about splitting the restaurant bill equally when people have had more than others....if I had realised at the beginning we were splitting then I would have had more, since I usually choose the least expensive option and do without starter or dessert since I think I'm paying only for myself! For the sake of a few pounds though, especially if we've all had the same amount of courses each and maybe shared a bottle of wine or 2, then I just agree to splitting even if I'm the one who is losing out. That's why I don't like dining out with colleagues...say anything and you're the stingy one, don't say anything and you lose out!

I also don't understand people who don't use vouchers! I know some people who refuse to use them to save themselves "embarrassment" or something! What is so embarrassing about using a voucher to save money on something you would usually buy anyway?!

bathgatebuyer

No wonder this thread is a long one!

Shop snobbery - people who turn up their nose at me for buying own brand, Lidl, charity shops, etc. What's the big deal? I get something I want cheaply;
Holidays - my colleagues are always on holiday and because I don't go (because I can't afford it) I'm told I'm 'boring'. Then I won my holiday to the States, they got jealous! Ten years I have waited for a stinking holiday, and when I get one for free (that's karma for you) they mump and moan that it wasn't them rather than being happy for me;
Work colleagues - .....in general. This particular month has been really tight for me because of a huge car repair bill last month which has wiped out pretty much every spare penny I have for the past month. Went to the canteen as per usual with my colleagues a few weeks back taking down my packed lunch and one of them (Mr 'I've got two incomes in my house and no mortgage to pay' with a loud voice, goes, "What's that cheap rubbish you're eating? Asda own make? Is that not rubbish? What's in your sandwiches? Cheese? Is that all you're eating? Cheese? How much did the yoghurt cost you................8p? It must be full of rubbish then? Why not have a stir fry - it looks nice" (Aye, and £2.75 a pop). After being made to feel a right fool, I decide to spend the rest of the week eating sarnies or having cup a soup at my desk, and my boss pulls me aside asking me if everything was ok as I'd been a bit distant of late. I explained to him that I was just skint, and that the last time I tried just taking my stuff down the canteen, such a big show of it, that I decided to just stay at my desk and eat in peace - he said in future he would step in if he saw me being made uncomfortable by Mr bigmouth. The same Mr Bigmouth said something last week about, "What's the name of that shop poor people pawn all their stuff at...................eh?" and then looked at me. Cheeky B@****;
Council Tax - Whenever I've been sent a bill, I pay it. I pay direct debit and as far as I am concerned, I am up to date. A week ago, I got a letter from them telling me that I'd underpaid from year 05/06 by about £470 because of their staff error. The letter also said, "You have 14 days to pay". What?! :eek:Oh aye, I've got a spare £470 just lying around. They also give you a number to call and then don't answer it when you call them! I've been trying to get through for a week. Bring on the local income tax and I'll be better off by £380 or so a year (I stay in a nice 2 bed flat, yet most of my peers stay in a 1 bed flat and as a result I pay more council tax. They can have holidays, flash cars and the like, yet I pay more in local taxes even though our use of local services is the same? Doesn't seem fair to me - roll on the local income tax);
People who think because they have more money, that they are better people - exactly what it says on the tin;
My friend - moaning about being skint when she eats M & S Ready Meals twice a day;
My colleague who says, "This will really annoy someone like you..........my mortgage is down to £30K" Someone like me? What does he mean, "Someone like me? A 32 yr old single woman who will own her own home when she's 45, and has her own car? That's just someone trying to boast about the state of their finances thinking it will make me feel rotten;
People who are benefits cheats - and think they have the right to have a nice life handed to them on a plate while others work to make a life for themselves, and they supplement their wages by claiming to be single parents, or working part-time or whatever. Hell, I had a former neighbour who lied about having a child and claimed all sorts of benefits - including housing benefit - to get extra (it went on holidays and labels) while I was working 75 hours a week to pay an £800 a month mortgage and she was paying nothing towards her rented flat in the same block where I live. Somehow the fraud line cottoned on to her. No, I can't work out why either! :rolleyes: I have to work hard for my life, and it's not easy doing it on my own. I certainly don't do it so that some liar can enjoy a similar lifestyle for nothing :mad:
There's sooooooo many more, but I'm making myself angry as I type!

Deep_In_Debt

deeplyindebt wrote: »

trolls make me sick

Don't eat them then!