Who invented the term spends or spenny?

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Spends for spending money

Spenny for expensive

I hear it and think 🤢

I hate "spends" or even worse, "spendies", for spending money 🤮

I call things spenny all the time though 😂

It was about your pension…OP wanted to know (as I recall) ‘How much do you have in your pench?’ 🙄

Cozzilivs innit

I think Plattyjoobs was the worst of these.

I once started a thread about spenny and got told IWBU. I can’t bear it. I see it on here all the time but never ever IRL.

And 'lekky' . Makes me want to vomit.

I can remember it from.being a kid. "Have you got your spends yet?"
What's so bad about that?

I was born in 1955 and spends was what we got on holiday or on a school trip in the early sixties. We weren't remotely posh.

Spends I have known since early childhood. Doesn’t sound strange to me.

On the other hand, spenny makes my toes curl

I hate illiteracy and secretly judge. I know I shouldn't

It was ‘spends’ for a school trip or a holiday when I was a kid 30+ years ago and we were the opposite end of the scale from boarding school. The OP mentions Harrogate, I have a county in common with that, is it a Yorkshire / Northern thing?

There was a whole thread on it. The poster was asking about her pension but most of the chat focused on 'pench'.

Spends was used when I was a child in the 70s, when I was given holidays 'spends' by my Grandma. I've not come across 'spenny'. The team I hear used is 'spendy' as in 'I've had a spendy month' (spent a lot) and then used for things that require excess spending. Don't know who made it up. I've been hearing it for a decade maybe.

Only ever seen it on here. Just lazy.

Oh yes. That was excruciating.

The first and only people I have encountered using the words ‘spenny’ were upper sixth boys from one of the poshest boarding schools in England. Both on text and spoken. That was in 2020. Thank the lord I have not heard it since.

The same person who calls their husband ‘hubby’.

Saying that, I really dislike the DH, DC etc on here 🤢

Yes, spends has been around for years.

I keep hearing "I'm not mad about it" which means the opposite to what it should!

It was almost certainly invented by a person who is ‘going on holibobs with hubby, my little prince, and the rest of the famalam’ and wants to know how much they’ll need in ‘spends’ despite not giving any information about where they are going and what they might want to do when they get there.

The countdown to the holiday will be measured in ‘sleeps’ and they will be having a couple of ‘cheeky’ drinks at the airport.

Spends has been around for ever. Not heard of spenny. Have been known to refer to someone as a spendy Wendy but that may just be me.

Sainsbugs and Sainos annoy me.

Both are utterly ridiculous tbh, total cringe.

also for Lush 🙄

My lovely Great-Grandma would always give us money for our "holiday spends". She died 50 years ago aged 96 so it's not exactly a new thing.

It's Sainsbobs round here!

Anyway if you must then use 'spendy' but don't ever say 'spenny' in my earshot as it infuriates me.

My 21yo says spenny…I loathe it! Spends is older, I think