Live well for less

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Anyone watching? I can't get over this family! 6 kids and they must spend a fortune!! I want to know what their monthly outgoings are....

Oh! Thanks outnumbered! Any other products worth noting?

One bit that stood out for me was the text from one of the teen boys including a request (unless context was missed out somehow) 'pop vinyls' - for us those are birthday/Christmas presents not something you randomly pick up

what striked (stroke?) me was how shit the non bio detergents were at washing.
will keep sticking to bio powder...

struck, RedBug

What's a pop vinyl?

Or does it just mean a 'proper' record on vinyl (7" or 12") like I used to buy as a teen/early 20s, before CDs came along (this was 70s and early 80s, I am officially old).

I think so Pemba. Vinyl is having a huge resurgence. They're flipping expensive though.

Pop vinyls are these geeky figure things here :)

They are very VERY 'in' at the moment, lots of people collect them and there's some for pretty much every fandom going like marvel, harry potter etc - but at RRP of around £13, sure they are cheap compared to many things (like real vinyl :o) but to just ask for random figures - it doesn't sit right with me. We have a few at home, but they are birthday present type things, you'd get one of a favourite character. My DSCs collect them throughout the year but it's their money they spend it on, rather than just being bought them IYSWIM.

That said the context could be misrepresented on the show and it was actually more of a 'find me some and I'll give you the money from my allowance' kind of thing, but it certainly didn't come across that way.

Ah that makes more sense!

On tonight at 8

Looming forward to what happens on tonights episode.

This couple are fucking ridiculous. 70 vest tops? £1ks worth of shirts? What a disgusting, excessive waste of money.

She is like an out of control child.

Crazy people

She is very spoilt

Just tuned in but now much on bras?? Is she bloody serious? Does she work herself or is she a spoilt pampered kept woman? I suspect the latter

Just watching on catch-up. Why are they bothering? They won't change surely, they seem to be reveling in their money and lifestyle.

She won't take any responsibility for her spending at all.
Why does she keep blaming her dp because he doesn't say no. 😩

£700 on clothes a month????

Mortified on her behalf when she complained about the shower gel.

I don't understand how they didn't know what they were spending each month, I'm baffled.

I missed the start of the programme, what jobs did they do to have so much spare cash

witchofzog she runs her own estate agency iirc. And he is a sales manager.

I can sort of see the psychological reasons behind her fucking insane amount of clothes. But she definitely didn't seem shocked or even a little bit ashamed of it.

X post Sandy see above.

Ah fair enough. Still excessive spending though

I kind of got her spending thing. I'm overweight and can imagine that if I lost loads of weight and was suddenly a size 12 I might go overboard for a while.

Slightly different but we spent years living overseas in countries where shoooing was crap - no department stores or bookstores or supermarkets. Clothes shopping was non existent for me. So when I would come to uk or go somewhere I could shop I went overboard. When we moved back to uk I did go a bit mad for a while, Not to her extent though! I think hers was a combination of losing all that weight, her mum dying and meeting a man who was as much a shopper as her.

Also I got the impression they had no dependents but I could be wrong so perhaps only themselves to spend it on. Still very extravagant.

It would be interesting to go back in three or six months to see if they have changed their shopping habits.