I know this is a first world problem but humour me.
DH is wonderful in every way but we have very different attitudes to spending.
I work crazy hours and am rarely home for dinner so the weekly shop falls to him, he orders it and I collect it. Every week I want to cry into the boot of my car as I pack bags of Tesco Value everything.
He knows I love a roast on a Sunday and that’s one of few days I’m almost guaranteed to be home for dinner. He isn’t the best of cooks but he tries really hard.
He always buys own brand cheap frozen roast potatoes/yorkshires. I am not at all averse to frozen ones but these are the 30p a bag version and they taste of sadness and misery.
He’s bought a pre prepared pork joint which I know from experience will be dry and tasteless. It would be a better economy to slow roast a shoulder joint and have sandwich meat for the week.
The kicker though this week is he’s bought value cat litter. Cat litter ffs. It’s rubbish. The house will stink.
We budget £600 pcm for the supermarket and he rarely spends more than £90pw and that includes four bottles of wine for me.
AIBU? YABU he’s being frugal and that’s good and you only have one meal a week at home anyway so suck it up.
YANBU he could splash out a bit on certain things.
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WhatsAppening · 21/10/2021 14:05
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