£100.00....gone ..just like that

[moretolife]

can anyone remember the days when £100.00 was a huge amount of money???

i have just come home from asda.....filled my car up with petrol and got some shopping and £100.00 just disappeared from my purse in a blink of an eye...and i think i only got one actual meal..!!...i tend to do the non food shop seperate...you know the ...cotton buds...deoderant...shower gel....razors...bleach ...loo roll ...etc etc and stuff like that....i do that every 6 weeks or so...well today i did that and filling my car came to 42.00 and the rest came to 58.00...with only tonights tea included....

nostalgia overcame me when i remembered times when my OH only earned 100.00....A MONTH.....sigh sigh.....

[kallis3]

My Asda shopping now is around £40 per week, and that includes our toiletries. Mind you, we buy our loo rolls in bulk from Makro, same with the washing powder (about once every six months), I've got short hair (not much shampoo), and hubby is balding and has a beard!!! The butchers is between £15 and £20. That gives us all our meals for a week. We have really cut down since our IVA started, beforehand it was anything from £70 upwards!

[Viki.W]

We get some stuff in bulk too from Booker cash and carry, I'm still a member from when I had the restaurant, couldn't do without it for loo rolls, paper towels etc.

[freelili]

My shopping came to £60, that includes toiletries too, there are 4 of us, that is four days worth, the toletries will last longer but the loo roll never does. We also have 5 or 6 at weekends here plus of course 5 cats, 1 dog and a parrot. That comes from the pet shop in bulk every 2 weeks, still also need cat litter for the kittens. I wash every day and never run out of powder, I buy the decent makes too.

Kallis, Jan, I am so in suspense about your big event, please tell us soon, please?

[freelili]

MTL, I am dying to know what you have for tea for £58.

[moretolife]

for tea tonight we are having ready made pizza and salad and garlic bread..total cost about 4.00....but the bulk of the shop was non food stuff....i buy once every 6 weeks or so...and the ,ist is huge...from deoderant to toothpaste to shampoo to all the house cleansing stuff....so i guess the 58.00 less the actual food purchase.is less than 8.00 per week really or therabouts...

just seemed like a whole lot of money...gone....we think in 100.00 chunks nowadays

[freelili]

Sorry hun, I read your post wrong, I thought you said you did that seperately. My son unplugged the freezer at the weekend so I am trying to use the stuff that was partially defrosted.

Enjoy the Pizza, I hope I dont enjoy the food poisoning.

[tori]

These days our weekly shop costs about £50-for 3 of us,then we get our cleaning stuff & toiletries from home bargain.We even make the extra effort to nip up to town to the discount shop to get our toilet rolls,as it's only £2 for a pack of 9,& they're quilted[:D]! Well,every little helps! It also helps that i get my meals at work too,& we're not big meat eaters,so we tend to buy more fish & then have pasta & rice dishes.Then once a wk we treat ourselves to a takeaway with the money that we've saved[:D]!! xx

[jane.l]

I just don't know how you all manage to get your shopping so low, there are 5 of us and I spend about £145 per week! cannot get it any lower! We had a bit of a battle with the OR about this when they tried for an IPA but we stuck it out and didn't get one in the end [:D]

[freelili]

I must admit my cats are expensive, they are all under 18 months old so still on kitten food, its almost impossible to buy large tins of kitten food and the pouches go nowhere and cost a fortune, so I have had to compromise. Whiskas kitten dry comes in a big bag mixed with tesco premium meaty chunks, with cat milk to soften the hard stuff, tescos cat milk at that. They seem Ok on it and eat it all up. Ruby gets done tomorrow, so she wont be having breakfast.

[jane.l]

I did not include my cats in my £145 per week![:0]

I buy a large bag of Hills biscuits once per month, that is about £13, and they have one pouch of Felix per day, shared. cat litter, I used to buy Beauticat at one large bag per month, £9 but I was sick of the sawdust all over my house so have now changed to Catsan, what a godsend, I dont have to change the litter tray every day now and it does not get everywhere, I now pay £4.50 every fortnight so I suppose it is about the same price but with less cleaning up! [:)]

[Skippy]

Harry has 2 pouches of Whiskas a day and biscuits for lunch and supper. The problem is he hates salmon flavour, so we have to try and swap them with my mum, as her cat will eat them! The only biscuits he likes are Joe and Jill's Organic Chicken and Rice biscuits, so he eats better than us!

[angela18]

I just try and go for what I need now instead of filling fridge up.. we pay £13 for a 15 kg bag of dog food from our local pet shop.. which lasts about 5 - 6 weeks not bad!!

[yodaguy]

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