To think dh has no clue how much things cost. Does yours?

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I went shopping to tesco last night and as usual spent around £100 for three of us to last us just over a week. Dh can't understand how I'm spending so much but he will only eat brand names products (don't get me started) and good meat and fish.

I gave him a little quiz on the current cost of items in the shops. Here are his answers:

1st class stamp: 25p (60p)
2 pints of milk: 50p (90p)
loaf of bread: 60p (1.20)
2 chicken fillets: 2.00 (5.30)
Six free range eggs: 90p (1.70)
Jar of coffee: 1.00 (2.50)
Washing tablets: 1.00 (4.00)

No wonder he thinks I'm spending a lot! He has no idea! Would your dh / dp know? I think dh may have to do the shopping next week!

Mine spends £40 every time he walks into a supermarket and that's without the weekly food shop. I could do it so much cheaper by myself.

DH and I are currently sat looking at the circulars together to try and figure out if it is better to hit several shops (they are all clustered together) or if it is a false economy once fuel and time are figured in.

It is not a "feminist" issue, it is not a "my DH is more useless than your DH" competition, it is about the division of responsibilities in the household. I do the shop because I organize the household finances. I make the DC's pack lunches, so I need to make sure we have what we need for that. We don't use the fancy brand names because they are not in the budget, but if we could afford them and there was a good reason to buy them, I might.

I challenge any of you complaining that your DH doesn't know the price of things in the shop they do not frequent to tell me what a litre of motor oil costs. Or, go out and disassemble and clean the lawn mower, change the oil in your car, climb up on the roof and clean the leaves out of the gutters.

Weekly shopping is only one of hundreds of household responsibilities...

fluffiphlox 45p was OH's answer...no connections postal or otherwise. I dont have a clue what a stamp cost, his guess was better than mine .

^ what BeeMom said. OH does well on the 'how well does your OH shop/look after the kids/bring you bacon sandwiches in bed/ cooks/does the school run...... if it was 'how much cleaning does he do' I would have to say in LTB territory

I would definitly fall down in the 'how well do you do on fixing the car'

DH scored quite well on the survey, to my surprise, he has obviously been listening to me moan about the inflation on groceries.

He was well out on eggs and washing powder - but then again I tend to buy 12/15 eggs not 6 and the washing powder I stock up when its half price.

If I send Dh shopping he takes one of the DDs to help him find brands, and he wouldn't think to have a quick scout around for what was not on the list but was on a good offer. stuff we use a lot I mean, not just randomly buying stuff that's on offer.

I am happy that shopping is one of my jobs, as he does the garden and wallpapering etc. He can cook and will cook - but in this house it works better that I do it other wise the kids would not get their tea till after7pm.

I don't think DH has any real idea of what the kids clothes etc cost though - shoes he does know as we tend to all go together (luckily we have a clarks outlet shop)

school uniform for secondary has to be ordered through the school from one supplier - first time this year, new uniform, 2 DC will be there, going to cost about £300 - ouch!

DH never ever moans at what "we" spend - he trusts me to do the best I can, I do love bargain hunting etc

DH does all the grocery shopping, and will travel all over the place to Lidls, and Morrisons and Sainsbos to get the best deals on things. I would not have a clue, expect that I went to the Co-op the other day to buy chicken breasts, courgettes, wine, flowers and soy milk and came out somehow having £30 and thinking wtaf?

having spent £30 that was....

My DH is the most useless person when it comes to do the food shopping. He comes back with two bags full of junk food - crisps, ice cream, Mars bars, coca cola, etc - and then boasts about having done the food shop for only £40!

Mine does - we both do grocery shopping, either picking stuff up in turns or occassionally going and doing a big shop together.

He didn't before he met me, he now knows to check the reduced section first and to shop in Aldi for anything else.

seeker oh don't be aghast at the swopping, i switched my DH belived twinings for aldi gold label tea.
He didn't notice. I told him, he was shocked. It was all in his mind you see. He begrudginly admitted that

Many ways to skin a cat!

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Your getting quite ripped off you can buy 6 free range eggs for £1 in Iceland and its £1 for 4 pints not 2 at most places.

Mine does...but he was a bachelor for 10 years before I lived with him and we've only been living together for a year...and he has a penchant for branded foods too!!

Have you tried Aldi chicken breasts, the frozen ones? I know he only wants "top quality" meat but I have to say that we've not had a bad fillet, they cost £4/kilo and do not have water added to them.

"I challenge any of you complaining that your DH doesn't know the price of things in the shop they do not frequent to tell me what a litre of motor oil costs. Or, go out and disassemble and clean the lawn mower, change the oil in your car, climb up on the roof and clean the leaves out of the gutters. "

PMSL at DH knowing any of these things. Disasemble the fucking lawnmower? If you mean disasemble it by mowing over the cable meaning its now only a metre long, then yes he can do that. He can't even find the dipstick... I can though...

Dh does the shopping in our house and knows what offers are on.
He will tell me he has bought two lots of clothes washing liquid as it was on a good deal this week.

To be honest I really don't care how much it cost as long as some is there when I come to do the clothes wash.

I have never seen a man disassemble a lawnmower. How many men climb on the roof to empty the gutters?

My DH does the shopping as he is the fussy one.
He likes certain brands, he likes certain shops, and if I did the shopping, I wouldn't care and would be the frugal person I am.
He also doesn't plan ahead so ends up shopping almost every day.

I could save time and money if I did it, but that's how he wants it so is how it will stay.

Yeah, we're always disassembling lawnmowers. Every weekend we're getting right in about it.

I didn't know the price of most of these things because my DP does the grocery shopping including meal planning and checking what we need each week.

Based on the logic of some people who've posted, I assume this makes me an exemplary feminist, yes? Do I get a badge?

This thread is depressing.

My DH genuinely does disassemble the lawnmower on a regular basis. Looks like he's in the minority though!

if you do the shopping then you get to choose

I disagree. If everyone is eating and everyone is contributing to the household (either financially or otherwise) then everyone gets to have input on how the household is run and how the household's money is spent, including having input on whether you think brand names taste better or whether you care about meat being free-range more than you care about it being cheap.

This thread makes me feel poor.
We both know all the prices and we can also tell you what they cost in each supermarket. i.e. the washing tablets are cheaper at Lidl,we buy the W5 for £1.60 for 30 tablets.

And you must all have more interesting conversations than we do, we often say 'this is ok, cheaper from x butcher' etc.

My dad is obsessed with prices not only food ones but prices in general. He lives here with us now and he tells us everyday what every item would cost back in Spain! In euros and in BPounds! He could be very useful in the travel section.
We must be very boring family.