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To ask where the fudge did I get my fag money from

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McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:18

3 week I have given up for so saved £126 also my dh has given up playing a game that costed almost £55 per month.

So why oh why are we still struggling, but thank god I have given up because I suppose we would be even worse off.

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CrispyCod · 27/05/2012 22:22

Well done you for giving up the ciggies Smile

youarekidding · 27/05/2012 22:23

well done. Grin

youarekidding · 27/05/2012 22:25

I guess money wise if your spending £3/4 a day on fags you don't notice the money going, but I suspect when you have a larger amount you spend more on shopping, eat out or something and think less about it because it's there? So actually spend the same amount but in different ways.

It's easy to spend more when your thinking your have more - without actually intending to spend more IYSWIM?

McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:27

I guess so, but it is so frustrating.

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treas · 27/05/2012 22:27

That's great news about giving up the cigarettes.

Are you saving the money you would have used on fags in a jar just to give you the incentive to keep going and maybe give yourself and dh a treat at the end of 12 months? Or is it just going to disappear in the fuel bills, car maintenance cost or weekly food shop?

McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:29

Sadly into normal household stuff, but I am getting my hair done ( not been touched in 2 years not even for our wedding) so that will be a real treat

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kittyandthefontanelles · 27/05/2012 22:31

Congratulations! It's been 14 months for me now. You'll get there. Are you putting the money away separately so you can see it build? I think otherwise it just gets eaten up. I didn't and wished I had.

kittyandthefontanelles · 27/05/2012 22:31

Oops. Too slow.

McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:33

It's one of the reason I have given up, as a family it is selfish for me to smoke when money is tight

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WhispersOfWickedness · 27/05/2012 22:36

Ooo, well done Smile
A few years ago, I was with a housemate when there was a news story about smoking costing you about £1200 a year or something. She was Shock and Confused and said 'I don't smoke, where's my bloody £1200 then?!' Grin

McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:42

Wish I could put a money in a jar, but need to sort out this debt I got myself into :) perhaps after 5 years I will have a great big fancy hoilday out of the uk and finally get to go onto a plan when I am 31 lol

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McHappyPants2012 · 27/05/2012 22:42

Plane that is

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