Who invented the term spends or spenny?

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Spends for spending money

Spenny for expensive

I hear it and think 🤢

Spends pisses me of. Thankfully have never heard spenny

I'm sure "spends" was in ancient boarding school stories I read as a child!

I doubt we'll ever know, because I'm sure whoever it was was put against a wall and shot, then their body quietly slipped into the sea, like Osama Bin Laden.

Whoever invented ‘holibobs’ - that’s who!

I’m with you OP, they are both awful abbreviations.

Spenny. What fresh hell.

Spends is bad enough.

🤣 absolutely!!!

I've only ever seen 'spenny' on MN (and mostly on threads like this, where people are complaining about it. I totally agree it's annoying, but I've never heard anyone say it in real life!

Spendy was bad enough, bit when it lost its D...

Yes it’s my well to do friends as well who regularly use this term. Then today whilst in Harrogate at a fun fair - parents hang it all the time and their kids

I don’t know, but I wish they hadn’t.

‘Spends’ has been around for decades. I remember my grandma giving me money for ‘spends’ for school trips and I’m 45.

No idea, same person who invented holibobs too i expect, my dd says all three and it annoys me

As if the elites haven't visited enough misery upon the world.

Mind you, ‘How much do you have in your pench’ is surely a joint first!

Same person who invented putting money into different “pots”. So cringe.

I have heard/seen ‘spendy’ and I assume ‘spenny’ has developed (devolved) from that.

I remember spends, as a shortening of spending money, being used for ages, and it doesn’t bother me too much. Spendy is a bit twee, and spenny is unacceptable.

My husband says Morribobs and I do wonder if it's grounds for divorce?😔

It’s grounds for a new patio, imo, @FTHC!

"Spend(s)" as a noun apparently goes back to the 17th century, in the context of household or company accounting - "a few big spends at Christmas put him over his annual budget". "Spenny" has been variously blamed on Australia and SE England, but it's unclear if it's a phonetic spelling of how some people pronounce "spendy" (US-originated, early 20th century - but originally describing a person who spends a lot of money, not expensive/overpriced items) or if it's its own cutesy shortening of expensive, along the lines of champers and cozzie livs.

Ah So potentially it was your grandma it’s originated from… obviously a joke 😅

Never heard this! Maybe its a cheery way to jazz up the weekly shop

Does pench mean purse or pension- not heard this but will pull a face when I do 😅

Spenny doesn’t bother me, spends I’ve only ever heard from older women.

@mrsgilfeathersthat was a hilarious thread