What’s one small thing you could give up that would save you a LOT of money long term?!

[early30smum]

Coffees in London are around £4 now. I definitely don’t get one myself every day, but between me and my husband we definitely average out at spending this per day just on coffee. We just worked out, spending £4 a day on coffee every day, is almost £1,500 a year. Just on takeaway coffee. Insane. Over 20 years, that’s just under £30,000…

Hair every six weeks at £200 a time, plus nails every 3 weeks at £40. So over £2k per annum

Eating.

Driving.

Takeaways - I need to delete Deliveroo
coffees

Ooh where to start…

mounjaro
my cleaner
fizzy Drinks.

Gardening. I dread to think how much I spend!

I’ve given up Diet Coke. After one year, I’m going to total what I would have spent and buy something nice.

Food
Gas and electricity
Roof over my head!

Oh this is amazing! I gave up Diet Coke for 5 months and it was great, have started again now though. And what’s more annoying is I waste more money on buying it individually as I try not to have it in the house in bulk. Please update one day on how much you save!

You could give those up tomorrow?

Wine
Cheese
Nice bread

Crap snacks in the weekly shop
Eating out for convenience
Buses/tubes - a bike would save me a fortune, but I'm too scared to cycle!

Oxygen

My Vinted addiction. I dread to think how much I've spent in the last year. I've dropped 2 dress sizes which means I've had to buy "new to me" clothes but I've gone OTT.

I gave up smoking a couple of months ago, £20 per day 😬

I remember swearing I would give up when a pack reached a tenner.

Recently gave up a cleaner (£100 a month) and stopped getting my nails done regularly (£45 every 3 weeks).

Money saved from a cleaner is going into parental leave savings - we’re doing IVF, positive manifestation over here.

A small thing I could give up which would save money is probably Pilates? I could do it at home with a free online class and save £80 a month haha

Wishing you the best of luck with your IVF. Everything crossed for you.

Nails, CACI facial and IPL hair removal = £2,000pa

I have an expensive sporting hobby that costs me around £5,000pa - I could pretty much do it for free if I gave up doing it competitively and only did it “for fun”.

Buying tonnes of seeds and plants every Spring with every intention of nurturing them. I don't.

Taking people out for dinner. For decades I thought being able to take an entire group of people out for dinner was the height of sophistication and generosity and I longed to do it. Then finally I earned enough to do it occasionally but I do it far too bloody often. I would save a few grand a year if I stopped. But I love doing it. And what is money for, once you have covered the basics? I don't buy expensive clothes. Never had my nails done, ever. Only get a hair cut twice a year. Never buy takeaways.

DH does this. It drives me nuts.

The gym, as I’ve not been for ages.

Wine

Buying books on Kindle. I don't keep a count, but I'm sure it's easily £50 a month.
But I consider it money well spent for so many hours of enjoyment, plus many are read more than once.

Do kids and DP count 😂😂 they are all very expensive 🙃