What do refuse to give up to save money

[LowlandLucky]

After reading the thread about what we will go without to save money i was thinking about what i just couldn't do without. For me it is tea, i will cut down or buy a cheaper brand of most things, but not my tea, i will stick to my brand no matter what. What can't you give up ?

Hair (highlights), eyebrows, wine, a warm house

That’s a lot of things

@OldTinHat I’m so sorry you’re going through that, that sounds incredibly tough

The gym

Coke Zero, supermarket own brand is foul.

I don’t really have very many coffees out, so decent coffee for the house.

Proper coffee for the house chocolate a fee times a week, a bottle of wine a week.

I don't go out or get a takeaway but I love an occasional holiday, even if oncw every few years.

Thompson's Irish Breakfast tea,
Mackays raspberry jam & Lurpak butter.

Yorkshire tea
Using the dishwasher
Baths
Various activities/clubs (most are relatively cheap)
TV streaming stuff (more for the kids than me)

The blue fairy liquid

Pepsi Max
The internet
Tumble dryer

I thought of lots, but agree with the Internet. I think that is the last thing I'd be willing to lose. Make of that what you will.

Coffee with milk would be a close second.

Organic animal products.
A warm house although I have started going a couple of degrees cooler.
Netflix.
Coffee out occassionally - really good coffee with a cake is one of my biggest treats.

Botox

Fresh coffee
Tumble dryer
Butter
Malden salt.

A decent haircut. I have a pixie cut (fine but abundant hair which just goes flat, straight and impossible to style when longer) and it has to be done by a hairdresser who knows what they’re doing.

@deadlanguage

Ribena, nothing else is the same!

Surprised to see people saying books. I read dozens of books a year but only buy recipe books or others that I’d need to refer to over and over. Buying fiction feels like such a waste of money when you can get it from the library for free (or order it in for very cheap).

@deadlanguage

I think people buy books so authors get paid and can write them..

Fruit shoot for DS though we do bulk buy in costco. It's his one treat in the day and stops him asking constantly for snacks or sweets.

For me it's putting on my electric blanket for 20 minutes before I get in bed in Winter . Pure pleasure and relaxes me even after a stressful day

My cleaner
Tumble drier
Internet and streamers

Dog food. Despite the brand I buy going up in price there is no way my dogs are having cheap dog food.

@hellcatspangle

Agree with you OP. Yorkshire all the way.

Ditto. Also nice coffee, I like the Lidl and Aldi versions of Azeera. Lidl were out of stock this week, I found an emergency tin in my drawer at work. Will go without pretty much anything else.

My mum would only drink Nescafe, couldn't stand own brand coffee. Even when we were really broke, it was Nescafe or nothing. Always thought I hated coffee, turns out I just can't stand Nescafe. It's rank!

Who knows with price rises but I would be sad to give up my veg box. We are veggie so general food bill is low and as we don't have a car getting that delivered is a big positive in the week as veg is heavy and bulky!

@Justmuddlingalong

Lurpak butter Fairy liquid I've no brand loyalty to anything else and will happily switch for deals, but those 2? Nope, I refuse to switch.

Have you tried the Aldi version of these? Their premium/platinum washing up liquid is brilliant, I have converted my neighbour, who borrowed a bottle once. The Lidl/Aldi Lurpak dupe is also good, but I prefer butter. DH likes it and he hates other spreads.

Tropicana

Yorkshire tea all the way for me too. I buy a giant bag of 600 from Ocado (although they’ve jumped in price since I last bought them). DCat refuses to give up his Sheba wet food and Iams 7+ dry (he turns his nose up at higher quality food despite my efforts, so small mercies I guess).

Eggs from the local farm.
Started going in lockdown & have never bought a supermarket egg since.
£1.50 for 6.... cheaper or comparable to almost all the other eggs available. Unless you want to buy the cheapest battery farmed ones.

Tea leaves (preferred brand which is not Yorkshire)
Coffee beans (fresh cup a day)