What is your MSE bug bear?

LouiseJ

I totally agree with the car thing. We could have chosen to stick with paying the minimum payment on the CC's and have got ourselves a nice new shiny car every 3 years. And we would still be in a !!!!!! load of debt and some more to boot. I am now proud to say we are CC free with only the mortgage to go (we do have £7k on the mortgage from CC debt though)......but it could have been a totally different story.

Our two cars are 6 and 7 years old and they are not falling apart with rust damage or costing us a fortune in repairs at the moment. I like having cars that are oldish.....but paid for TYVM.

sophie27

I love when people at work say "oh i love you top, its so pretty, where's it from?" I reply Primark. Any interest in it evaporates! Where I work is quite snobbish apart from the team I work in. Or the girls and I take our books in and swap them round to save buying new ones all the times and we get funny looks!!

irishgal_3

My absolute bug bear is people who refuse to drink tap water and spend €2 a day on a bottle of water!! I feel like screaming, we live in Dublin, the water is fine:mad: Anyway, fools and their money are easily parted:rolleyes:

cat4772

Mine are the holidays... I like going on holiday (abraod or the UK, but I also like bl00dy good value for money):cool:.

Last year DH and had a week's city break to Krakow; the total (including travel, hotel, spending money, restaurant meals & sightseeing) was £550 for the two of us. To go a month later with the travel agent would have cost £320 each jsut for travel and hotel (transfers, sightseeing, evening meals and spending money was extra:eek:)! Then people think that becuase we did it ourselves, we had a less enjoyable experience. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

No we had a more enjoyable experience knowing that we'd had fun and saved a huge bundle of money whilst doing it:D :A

cat4772

sophie27 wrote: »

I love when people at work say "oh i love you top, its so pretty, where's it from?" I reply Primark. Any interest in it evaporates! Where I work is quite snobbish apart from the team I work in. Or the girls and I take our books in and swap them round to save buying new ones all the times and we get funny looks!!

Sophie
I'm happy to shop anywhere. I bought a skirt and top set from a charity shop for £4 (original price tags still attached showed they should have been £60). By their reactions you'd have thought i'd confessed to mass murder or something equally heinous.

Deep_In_Debt

irishgal wrote: »

My absolute bug bear is people who refuse to drink tap water and spend €2 a day on a bottle of water!! I feel like screaming, we live in Dublin, the water is fine:mad: Anyway, fools and their money are easily parted:rolleyes:

I totally agree with you. I never buy bottled water. Tap water is perfectly safe and fine to drink where I live. I've drunk it for the last 20 years and it's never done me any harm - try convincing people though! I actually nick empty water bottles at work and fill them with tap water and take them into work as I refuse to pay £1.29 for the same size bottle in the shop! And I add squash with it which makes it more interesting and to buy the same in a shop costs a fortune.

As for clothes, I buy a lot of my stuff in charity shops and reduced in Tesco. I remember wearing a top that loads of people remarked was really nice, the next day someone wore a similar top and paid almost £30 for it in Next and I bought mine in Tesco for less than an tenner!

MrsTinks

Have to confess I buy bottled water but I buy in bulk at costco (own brand) and it's only because our tap water tastes foul with chlorine and I mean really foul...
But I pay less than £3 for a crate of 500ml bottles(think there is 24 or 30 in there...) so not that bad value...

saver03

I was at my friend's house for dinner the other day so I was saving money :rotfl: anyway I spoke to OH and told him I had not washed up my lunch dishes as I though he could do them with his dinner ones to save putting the water on twice and then my friend said, "Don't you have the water on all the time, we do!" :eek: Then she was saying that when she gets up at 6am for work she sets the heating to come on at 3am :eek: I just felt that this was crazy money wasting and also bad for the environment. Then we were talking about her going back to college and she was telling me what the minimum was she could live on and that included £300 a month for food :eek: There is 2 adults and 1 hamster!

Puzzledbubbles

I love this thread!!!

My biggest bug bear is family, because like many of you we have good jobs when we say we are skint everyone just laughs, then when i smoked it was fine for everyone to smoke my fags because i could afford it.

When we are out with family and nieces and nephews if they want something the parent always looks at us first as if we should be treating them everytime we see them (which is weekly btw) now we have been know to go into a shop and ask the little ones if they want a sweetie or a lolly but when we are being asked for REMOTE CONTROL CARS because we dont have kids and therefore have nothing to spend our money on it gets a bit silly.

Also i hate the fact that EVERYONE expects us to buy the first drink, now as a couple when we go out we both make the point of buying rounds, we dont necesserily think its fair if a couple just buys one round between them if you are out with single people. If i dont want a drink (which quite often i dont, i drink about 1 pint to everyone elses three lol) then i opt out of the next round or two, yet when it comes back to me i am expected to but a whole round all over again grrrrrrrrrrr

Plus, (Sorry i know im going on) if i say that im not doing rounds the OH feels embarressed so ends up buying rounds on my behalf when i go to the loo then when he has ran out of cash asks me to give him a sub since "i didnt spend as much as i should have in the pub"

grrrrrrrrrrrrrr

Im stopping now or you will never shut me up, lol

Deep_In_Debt

cat4772 wrote: »

Mine are the holidays... I like going on holiday (abraod or the UK, but I also like bl00dy good value for money):cool:.

Last year DH and had a week's city break to Krakow; the total (including travel, hotel, spending money, restaurant meals & sightseeing) was £550 for the two of us. To go a month later with the travel agent would have cost £320 each jsut for travel and hotel (transfers, sightseeing, evening meals and spending money was extra:eek:)! Then people think that becuase we did it ourselves, we had a less enjoyable experience. :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad: :mad:

No we had a more enjoyable experience knowing that we'd had fun and saved a huge bundle of money whilst doing it:D :A

I know where you are coming from. I went for a week with a couple of mates last year to Tenerife. A colleague of mine owns an apartment there and let us have it for £200 for the week between the 3 of us - £66 for a week each for accommodation. The flights cost £124 each return and then plus spending money - quite a cheap holiday. We all came back with money! There was a Tesco store near to the apartment which was much cheaper than Tesco here so we stocked up on food and booze for the week and had a blast! We worked out that we spent less than £400 each for the whole holiday (including flights) and still had a couple of excursions. One of the best holidays I've ever had as it was cheap for all of us and swimming, playing cards and board games and chatting doesn't cost anything but is enjoyable.