What's your deal-breaking, can't do without expense?

[Bossybritches22]

Following on the brilliant "No Spend January" thread in this section I've been feeling very nosy idily thinking.

What is your one/two things that you COULD economise on but would really make life so much more miserable. Things are SO tight for us all at the moment but we have to have one little treat/bit of help that picks us up,even if it seems extravagant.

Mine are; PG tips, I love my cuppa and I know there are other bags that allegedly taste as good but have never found one.

Nice wine; have restricted myself to 3 for £10/£12 once a month, when it's on offer, sticking to that and often it lasts longer but it's my luxury.

What's yours?

My iPhone

Having my hair cut and coloured.
Real coffee and good quality, local meat.

Same as several people before, quality meat (rather have none than economy) free range eggs, and the hairdresser every other month.

Yorkshire tea here too.
A bottle of wine a week.
Haircut. This is meant to be every six weeks but I'm stretching it as long as I can. £50.

I'm not quite on the baked potato and macaroni budget of a few years ago but am definitely cutting back this year.

sleep no not sad at all, if it keeps you sane!!

nursenic please do I'll come down/up/across!!

I would become vegetarian rather than eat cheap meat.

Proper coffee (at home, I don't pay for coffees out, much)
Proper butter, never marge, even if disguised as a 'spread', and it has to be GOOD butter.

Sky tv, Internet and my O2 bolt on.

For all of us, it allows dh to work from home so he's not at work till midnight. Plus dh loves the football. The dcs us the Internet & like children's tv, sky anytime movies and I of course mnet.

Gym membership.

Booze. I will have us supping thin dahl made with storecupboard scratchings as long as we can have a big bottle of cheapo czech beer with it!

Plus we eat veggie when times are lean as crap meat is such a massive dissapointment. Though we do have a good v reasonable veg stall near us so we can have v nice veggie food all the time.

oh and I wnet without my v expewnsive perfumes when they all ran out at the beginning of december and was properly miserable that I had to wait until Christmas for them!

Yes butter has to be Lurpak.

Fresh flowers, preferably 30 red tulips, in a vase in my kitchen.

wine, only buy on offer, never over £5, once a week.
Moisturiser - clarins otherwise my skin is so dry.
Floor cleaning wipes
car
free range eggs

I have loads

Eyebrow and upper lip threading once a month
hair cut and colour - every other month
fruit for the DCs
kindle books for DD1
Horse riding lessons for DDs

MAC foundation, powder and shimmery blush - nothing else makes me look like less of a zombie after sleepless nights with my baby DS.

New tights (Primark though!), I can't stand it when tights bobble/pull, it makes me feel really shabby.

Not cheap meat - can't abide the watery stuff.

Books - though have a kindle and try out all the freebies and £0.99 ones as
well as treating myself to ones from authors I love.

The kids piano lessons - being able to play the piano is something I love being able to do and it actually was the thing that made the interview panel pick me for my job all those years ago.

Lip and eyebrow threading is only a fiver in our local shopping centre. She's affectionately known in this house as 'the brow bitch' because when I first got it done is was SOOOO painful. Totally worth it though, and really not extravagant.

Heating
Petrol, I could send DD2 to school on the bus, get DH to do all the shopping on his way home from work and never go for a wander round the neatest city. But I would go mad!

Partylite candles (no I am not a rep)
My hair
Sky TV-cos I hardly go out anyway.

Cleaner once a week or house descends into chaos.Free-range eggs i buy at the local farm shop.Flowers from the local market and Clinique make-up/skincare [as allergic to everything else].

My fortnightly thai takeaway.

Diet coke.
Decent shoes for the kids.

We economise on almost everything else.