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RE: Household Money Saving Tips - KevinTW - 12-02-2014

(08-02-2014, 04:59 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Don't go the pub at all, will save plenty of money then lol...


Out of interest, as theres a few superscrimpers on here, how much do you roughly spend on bills/food etc over a month? I'm not talking about 'fun' if that's your thing (alcohol, clubbing etc) but just normal living costs?

Groceries £250 a month for the 4 of us. Thanks Jamie Oliver, The Ministry of Food book is fantastic. Cheap and healthy grub. Water £20 month-rainwater tank. Gas Elec £80 for both -woodburner fuelled from skips. Council tax £1800 a year! WTF


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Eeyore - 12-02-2014

How are you managing to spend £250 a month on food? D:


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - THE_Liam - 12-02-2014

I was just thinking that. Me and my lass spend £70 in Asda, £20 at the butchers, and then maybe a tenner a week on milk, bread, veg and other short-lived stuff, so £120 a month absolute maxiumum a month, and that's eating really well and includes a couple of crates of beer...


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - bigcheez2k3 - 12-02-2014

Maybe he has young'uns, nappies are expensive.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Toms306 - 12-02-2014

Judging by the council tax I assume he lives in a mansion....so the groceries also have to cover the servants. lol

But seriously, I don't think that's bad for 4 people in all honesty? I was budgeting myself about £150! Though £100 of that would be loo rolls. lol


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - lolsteve - 12-02-2014

£15 a week for food , smartprice chicken burgers, hash browns and frozen peas pretty much everyday for a week now


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - THE_Liam - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 08:00 PM)lolsteve Wrote: £15 a week for food , smartprice chicken burgers, hash browns and frozen peas pretty much everyday for a week now

Jesus mate I wouldn't live on that, that's really bad for you...


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Eeyore - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 07:47 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: Maybe he has young'uns, nappies are expensive.

Are nappies Groceries? D:


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - bigcheez2k3 - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 08:04 PM)SRowell Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:47 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: Maybe he has young'uns, nappies are expensive.

Are nappies Groceries? D:

Depends what you're into Confused

You'd normally buy them along with the shopping though.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Toms306 - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 08:00 PM)lolsteve Wrote: £15 a week for food , smartprice chicken burgers, hash browns and frozen peas pretty much everyday for a week now

I can't eat most of the cheap ASDA shite, they cram it with garlic/onions/spices etc to cover up the fact it's made of chicken arse which doesn't go well with my delicate guts. Sad Sucks tbh, I'd spend much less on food if I could just eat anything lol.

(12-02-2014, 08:04 PM)SRowell Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:47 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: Maybe he has young'uns, nappies are expensive.

Are nappies Groceries? D:

I would include them in groceries tbh, as well as loo roll, kitchen roll, washing powder, fairy liquid etc....


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - lolsteve - 12-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 08:02 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: Jesus mate I wouldn't live on that, that's really bad for you...

(12-02-2014, 10:08 PM)Toms306 Wrote: I can't eat most of the cheap ASDA shite, they cram it with garlic/onions/spices etc to cover up the fact it's made of chicken arse which doesn't go well with my delicate guts. Sad Sucks tbh, I'd spend much less on food if I could just eat anything lol.

Seems to be doing me alright, been pretty much just been eating that and toast for 4 years lol that and smash before I realized actually making mash myself is so much more tasty. am trying to replace the cheap meat with quorn where i can as its only a little more expensive and much nicer


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Wolverine1091 - 13-02-2014

Massive bag of potatoes - can do so much with them, and store in a cool dry place, they rarely go off - yea they sprout and may go a little soft, just pull the sproutings off before cooking.

If you use bread, keep it in the fridge, lasts much much longer than in a bread bin.

I only use heating to dry clothes, man up if you're cold.

Never watch live TV, so no tv licence - saves loads.

If you drink alot of tea - 3 teabags in litre flask, will stay hot all day - use less tea bags and only boil the kettle once. Just don't dishwasher a flask, it destroys the internals and stops insulating.

If you're bored - ride bike, raining? man up, or take bike apart, clean everything, put it back together.

Valentines is coming up - make something from scratch, will be much more appreciated than a meal out - cheaper too!


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - lolsteve - 13-02-2014

I find the bread goes dry quicker in the fridge though :/


Household Money Saving Tips - rocker8742 - 13-02-2014

Freeze it and only defrost it when you need it, me and the mrs buy it when it's reduced to 10p or so


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Sian - 13-02-2014

£250 on food! :O i have two kiddies and only spend £40 a week! Madness!
And nappies are like 2 big packs for a tenner in tesco last about 2weeks! So there not that expensive unless your child wears gold lol


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - RetroPug - 13-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 07:43 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: I was just thinking that. Me and my lass spend £70 in Asda, £20 at the butchers, and then maybe a tenner a week on milk, bread, veg and other short-lived stuff, so £120 a month absolute maxiumum a month, and that's eating really well and includes a couple of crates of beer...

So you spend 120 for two people...which multiplied by 2 is 240, and you're wondering how on earth he manages to spend 250 for four people? Huh


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - KevinTW - 13-02-2014

£250 that is food,washing powder,cleaning stuff,nappies,toiletries the lot.Band E council tax. It is ridiculous here as we council tax accounts for about 45% of what is spent by the council whereas in some places it is about 20%
(12-02-2014, 10:08 PM)Toms306 Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 08:00 PM)lolsteve Wrote: £15 a week for food , smartprice chicken burgers, hash browns and frozen peas pretty much everyday for a week now

I can't eat most of the cheap ASDA shite, they cram it with garlic/onions/spices etc to cover up the fact it's made of chicken arse which doesn't go well with my delicate guts. Sad Sucks tbh, I'd spend much less on food if I could just eat anything lol.

(12-02-2014, 08:04 PM)SRowell Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:47 PM)bigcheez2k3 Wrote: Maybe he has young'uns, nappies are expensive.

Are nappies Groceries? D:

I would include them in groceries tbh, as well as loo roll, kitchen roll, washing powder, fairy liquid etc....



Re: RE: Household Money Saving Tips - THE_Liam - 13-02-2014

(13-02-2014, 10:02 AM)RetroPug Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:43 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: I was just thinking that. Me and my lass spend £70 in Asda, £20 at the butchers, and then maybe a tenner a week on milk, bread, veg and other short-lived stuff, so £120 a month absolute maxiumum a month, and that's eating really well and includes a couple of crates of beer...

So you spend 120 for two people...which multiplied by 2 is 240, and you're wondering how on earth he manages to spend 250 for four people? Huh

What I eat could feed 4 kids mate. Also kids don't often get through 2-3 crates of beer....


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - RetroPug - 13-02-2014

(13-02-2014, 11:40 AM)THE_Liam Wrote:
(13-02-2014, 10:02 AM)RetroPug Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:43 PM)THE_Liam Wrote: I was just thinking that. Me and my lass spend £70 in Asda, £20 at the butchers, and then maybe a tenner a week on milk, bread, veg and other short-lived stuff, so £120 a month absolute maxiumum a month, and that's eating really well and includes a couple of crates of beer...

So you spend 120 for two people...which multiplied by 2 is 240, and you're wondering how on earth he manages to spend 250 for four people? Huh

What I eat could feed 4 kids mate. Also kids don't often get through 2-3 crates of beer....
True but then kids need loads of other assorted stuff.
Just saying it's not as ridiculous as it sounds for a family of four.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Atterz - 15-02-2014

- Join Army, enjoy entire wage to self.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Poodle - 15-02-2014

Rofl

Shit, he's got us beat!


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Piggy - 15-02-2014

Till he gets shot Undecided


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Dum-Dum - 15-02-2014

(12-02-2014, 07:29 PM)KevinTW Wrote: Groceries £250 a month for the 4 of us. Thanks Jamie Oliver, The Ministry of Food book is fantastic. Cheap and healthy grub. Water £20 month-rainwater tank. Gas Elec £80 for both -woodburner fuelled from skips. Council tax £1800 a year! WTF

(12-02-2014, 07:56 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Judging by the council tax I assume he lives in a mansion....so the groceries also have to cover the servants.


That's not bad for a family if four. I pay about £1100 a year council tax and that's after the 25% discount for living on my own in my tiny little house that's band A.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - KevinTW - 16-02-2014

Council tax is crazy now. Thank God it has been more or less frozen since 2010.
(15-02-2014, 10:18 AM)Dum-Dum Wrote:
(12-02-2014, 07:29 PM)KevinTW Wrote: Groceries £250 a month for the 4 of us. Thanks Jamie Oliver, The Ministry of Food book is fantastic. Cheap and healthy grub. Water £20 month-rainwater tank. Gas Elec £80 for both -woodburner fuelled from skips. Council tax £1800 a year! WTF

(12-02-2014, 07:56 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Judging by the council tax I assume he lives in a mansion....so the groceries also have to cover the servants.


That's not bad for a family if four. I pay about £1100 a year council tax and that's after the 25% discount for living on my own in my tiny little house that's band A.



RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Atterz - 17-02-2014

(15-02-2014, 09:27 AM)Piggy Wrote: Till he gets shot Undecided

LOL .. Not sure if serious!?


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Sian - 17-02-2014

I have a family of four and don't spend that much!
Spend around £40 a week on food and if they need nappies i spend £30 on food
Dont have gas. So just electric key meter which is costing me around £15 a week now as use a plug in oil heater instead of the storage heaters
Car insurance for both our cars is £100
Water £100 every 3months
And £100 ish a month council taxSad

We scrimp with some things but we get by!


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Piggy - 21-02-2014

Not sure if already mentioned, natwest are doing cashback on their standard current account debit card.
Few uses, more to be added, but main one is BP.

You get 1% cashback. But along with nectar you then get 2% cashback with bp.
Its relative to the price, but my local bp is as cheap as jet/shell as it has two "cheap" days per week

PS a mate just got a natwest account just for buying fuel!!


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - lolsteve - 21-02-2014

Would this apply to a student account?
I also got an email from capital one offering me 1% cash back recently too


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - RetroPug - 21-02-2014

Not sure if they're still doing it but Halifax were giving you 100 quid if you switched your current account to them.


RE: Household Money Saving Tips - Uberderv - 21-02-2014

(15-02-2014, 12:41 AM)Atterz Wrote: - Join Army, enjoy entire wage to self.

Them were the days Rolleyes

Never know how quick your life can change though....