Sit down and look at your accounts in detail once every three months.
Try to buy things on card rather than cash (which helps when you're checking statements)
Slow cooking and freezing things is good.
(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:22, 2 replies, latest was 12 years ago)

like turds?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:23, Reply)

NOMNOMNOMNOM

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:25, Reply)

I got Mrs B to keep all her receipts for January, as did I.
Put them all in a spread sheet this morning, broken down by subject.

It's scared the shit out of her. GOOD. £750 a month on food? Ridiculous.

I don't use credit cards.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:24, Reply)

How fat is your wife!?

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:25, Reply)

She's not. It's all organic this, £30 leg of lamb from the posh butcher that etc.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:27, Reply)

Good job you are loaded then

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:28, Reply)

Pfft.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:29, Reply)

You could buy a fucking sheep for £30

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:30, Reply)

Probably get a non-fucking one for less than that.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:32, Reply)

Where's the fun in that?

( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:33, Reply)

you need to reduce her "housekeeping"

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:28, Reply)

Fucking right.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:29, Reply)

Just move house
This solves any excess spending issues
( sporters I’m sincerely gratitude to you, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:26, Reply)

Is she ones of those people who buys a single banana on a tray from waitrose?

( wanderlust, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:27, Reply)

A little bit.
Not anymore though.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:27, Reply)

Good.
Those people make me sad.
( wanderlust, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:34, Reply)

why would you put a banana on a tray?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:36, Reply)

Because the world's a cruel and fucked up place Winders :(

( wanderlust, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:37, Reply)

Because people are mental?
4.bp.blogspot.com/_xN7bGcsuXn4/RtWjIQob-TI/AAAAAAAAAts/SW1v2ncN8No/s400/waste_bananas_450x340.jpg
(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:39, Reply)

that's seems cheap...

( Naked Ape call me Caitlyn, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:41, Reply)

I thought that.

( tangledupinblue hairy badge with moving eyes, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:41, Reply)

Maybe they're tiny bananas?

( wanderlust, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:42, Reply)

seems terribly wasteful.
Although the new Costa over the way wanted 25p for a single apple. That's a lot for an apple.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:51, Reply)

YOU'RE a lot for an apple
x
( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:53, Reply)

is this about me putting on a bit of weight recently?

( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:59, Reply)

I like you a little thick through the middle

( Two Hats 🎩🎩, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:06, Reply)

If you see people buying individual bananas
Just sing th Banana Splits theme tune to them.
( JeffTheDogFucker Can you dig it?, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:37, Reply)

I'll ask Monty how it goes.

( wanderlust, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:39, Reply)

That's my rent by the way.

(PsychoChomp, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:42, Reply)

I'll tell my wife 'do you know we could rent a small pov hole in Milton Keynes for the same money we spend on food?'
Yes. That'll do my argument a lot of good.
( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 14:49, Reply)

actually, it's about the same as my mortgage and all.
Well, monthly payments.
( Windy Pig I'm naturally quite suspicious about the moon., Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:00, Reply)

It's not far off mine
and I think "We could have a 3 bed Georgian flat opposite the Botanic Gardens in Edinburgh for what you spend on food" might work better than the Milton Keynes line
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:10, Reply)

Not a bad idea, until you compare to her parents place on Heriot Row.

( Fucking hell Jeff I am not a robot, Tue 12 Feb 2013, 15:16, Reply)