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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:03 PM
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| Sticking to a budget...
Is bloody hard work!
We've got to clear an amount of debt that I accrued making Matt take us on holiday. So currently we're paying off £200 a month (which is the most we can afford) and this month was the first of 'cutting down'. We set what seemed like a reasonable budget of £90 a week for food, Ella's stuff, going out (groups and things) and any other little bits but it's really hard to stick too! Tonight we had jacket potatoes and I'm not being particularly frivilous buying stuff at Tescos or the butchers, but it all adds up.
Anyone else finding it hard cutting down? |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:08 PM
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | We live on £88 a week so pretty much cut down already! If things got really desperate then id probably give up the cable TV |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:09 PM
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | nooooooooooooo not tht tv!!! i h8 budgeting!!! but i need 2 atm  and i suck at it... |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Arcanegirl We live on £88 a week so pretty much cut down already! If things got really desperate then id probably give up the cable TV | Ours only costs £5 a month, but we don't get that many channels  |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:13 PM
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| we closed our contract with sky and basically just had the sky box as a free view box,only prob is lily has hid the card somewhere so we cant get hardly any channels downstairs 
there is only soo much cutting down you can do,if you cut out everything it makes you more lax so you end up having a splurge,kind of like dieting in which i wish i could take my own advice  |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 20:17 PM
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| I'm just crap at it. Like the breadmaker this week! Last week Ella got her first pair of shoes so that was nearly £20 out of it. |
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Nov 13th, 2006, 21:00 PM
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they dont say how much it cost to run a family its hard to balnce everything u need and want espically if ur kids r trying to keep up with there mates and u feel let down if u dont give them what they want | | | | Status: Offline
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Nov 13th, 2006, 23:54 PM
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | We found dieting worked out more expensive!
I'm on £80 a week thing keeping in mind 10 fags & drink weekends if we bother! Not done so great it's MOnday & spent £20 already HUH?  |
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Nov 14th, 2006, 09:44 AM
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I'm Currently Feeling:  | Im loving my budget Kina, i find it a buzz!!!
I have £60 pw for me and Charlie (OH away all week) to cover everything that is not 'bills' its fun!!!
I have saved up the money ive had left over and now i have£70 to go buy some new clothes with wooohooooo!!!
I enjoy seeing if i can do it, and like to make cheap meals and stuff that lasts or freezing batched. Your right though dieting is bloody expensive!
Make it a challenge, I 'justify' evrything i buy, getting obsessive hahahaha | | | | Status: Offline
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Nov 14th, 2006, 10:06 AM
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| I'm just going to have to get better at it! Especially if you're managing to squirrel away some dosh for shopping! |
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