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

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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.

Well done you for giving up the ciggies

well done.

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?

I guess so, but it is so frustrating.

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?

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

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.

Oops. Too slow.

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

Ooo, well done
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 and and said 'I don't smoke, where's my bloody £1200 then?!'

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

Plane that is