Life changing sum of money

[FagEnd]

Yep, Mr Tesco used to take a huge slice of my monthly expenditure when I lived in the UK. But that's life... if you wanted to support your local traders it would take you 5 times longer to do your shopping, and probs cost twice as much, most folks can't be arsed with it, and like the "everything under one roof"

Gotta admire Tesco as a business model, they went from a 4th rate supermarket in the late 80's when I was a teenager, (we used to take the piss out of kids who's parents used Tesco) to being the economic driving force in the UK now, I'm sure I read a report that every 1 in 7 pounds spent in the UK is spent in tesco. That's no mean feat. The only question remains is, how can you stop such a powerful company from gaining more power... I don't care, I don't live in the UK

 

[Frog]

The only question remains is, how can you stop such a powerful company from gaining more power... I don't care, I don't live in the UK

Everyone seems to cry about Tesco etc putting independent traders out of business, but ultimately if anyone actually cared they wouldn't be going out of business in the first place as people would still be using them.

I don't live in UK either, but I do have a large Tesco 1 minute walk from my flat. I love the convenience of being able to get everything under one roof, and with them having a butchers counter and a fresh fish one, baking their own bread on the premises and so on, you're not sacrificing quality at all.

Just don't get me started on the price of Tesco Finest jars of curry sauce... £2.50 a jar here, I'm sure they were only £1 back home

 

[FagEnd]

LOL, I used to live in Prague and I had a tesco in the city centre there too, that was around 6 or 7 years ago... seems we can't escape the mighty Tesco so just as well embracing him

 

[KarlM]

A deposit for a large house would suit me fine lol.

 

[stevebrowne]

We're a family of 6, and our weekly Tesco bill is £170-£210, depending on whether we need all the toileteries/washing power etc. in the same week. That is paying attention to the offers, and buying based on those (apart from core stuff). No brand loyalty, no luxuries (well a few maybe!). Buy the big offers when they are on so that we save further down the line (eg. Kenco coffee big blue jar, £1.88 saving at the moment, so we are buying two a week untile the offer stops)

We went through a very lean period a year or two ago, and managed to get down to under £100 a week, but I fear inflation has made that nigh on impossible. What it has meant is that we've tried out all of the own label stuff and know what tastes good and what doesn't (eg. nothing beats Heinz Beanz).

Back to the thread though: £300k would be step 1 of life changing. It would be enought to clear the mortgage, and have a fund so that I didn't *have* to go out and contract (although I probably still would). £1m+ would be life changing in other ways, and £EURO MILLIONS style win would be just right

So: £300k as my first step.

 

[monaghan]

Blimey, I'd never be able to afford over £100/week on food, I spend between £40 & £60 a week in my local Asda and £100 every couple of months for some mail order meat (not full of water, but full of plenty of flavour), I'll buy a pork shoulder joint every now and then to make mince (works out about the same cost as buying supermarket mince, but is much better quality). This feeds 5 of us. We have chickens as family pets so don't have the cost of eggs and have an allotment so have only just started to buy salad stuff again. A big commercial freezer allows us to bulk buy any "bargains"

 

[disruptive]

The cost of living has shot up, but to my calculations income has not risen accordingly. We see some families faced with double digit inflation, but deflation of their earning power. Quite frankly the cost of living has affected so many of friends they have left the UK suggesting that even 100% taxation would not improve matters in the UK.

A quote for you:

"Poor people have no options. Therefore, it is easy to tax them. If you tax the rich, they might leave the country and settle elsewhere."

It seems fairly true to say that has been a policy over the last few years.

 

[websaway]

Life changing for some Africans is apparently 2 or 3 pounds a week. So be positive, look at what you have and not at what you have not.

 

[Frog]

A quote for you:

"Poor people have no options. Therefore, it is easy to tax them. If you tax the rich, they might leave the country and settle elsewhere."

It seems fairly true to say that has been a policy over the last few years.

I wouldn't live in a hell hole just to be tax free (if I would I'd be writing this from Dubai), but the tax implications played a pretty big role in my choice to move to Czech Rep.

It seems the UK government want to go out of their way to punish success and hard work, whilst laziness and acting like scum is rewarded.

Heres your tax money hard at work - this lovely lady saying she's going to have as many children as she can, even although they're all getting taken into care abnd tax payer funded. This is going to continue until her and her asylum seeking boyfriend get given a "proper house". You couldn't make that stuff up! He should be forcibly removed from the country, and she should be forcibly sterilised...

 

[disruptive]

Fact is not so much about the actual level but about what it buys...not very much it would seen. I think we are stuck in the muddle between paying nothing and paying almost everything, but getting nothing.

 

[retired_member16]

The girlfriend and I spend between £120 and £150 a week on food and wine and I seem to end up going every single day if its my turn to shop as I always forget stuff.

I often go there hungry too which means that that I normally buy lots of stuff I dont need.

 

[stender]

I pop in Tesco just for bread and milk and rarely come out of there less than £40 down. I can also add another £100pm on takeaways.

 

[stevebrowne]

I should add that our £170-£210 covers packed lunches for 5 people Monday-Friday, and we don't tend to have takeaways, so that is almost our entire food budget.

£200 for 6 people per week = £4.76 per person per day. Not bad really, considering some people blow more than that on coffee shops every day.

 

[stender]

yep don't get me started on that. A daily latte at £2.50
Luckily my work restaurant is free, but it has it's downside which is an expanding waistline.

 

[retired_member16]

yep don't get me started on that. A daily latte at £2.50
Luckily my work restaurant is free, but it has it's downside which is an expanding waistline.

55p for a rasher of bacon at mine.

£5 on breakfast daily
£5 on lunch daily.

:x

 

[FagEnd]

55p for a rasher of bacon at mine.

£5 on breakfast daily
£5 on lunch daily.

:x

At least you lucky guys have a works canteen. My works canteen is my own kitchen, and I can't get a fecking decent slice of bacon here.... can't even get a pint of fresh milk... for some strange reason the Spanish don't use fresh milk, all I can get is UHT milk, that's the norm here. Tastes disgusting in coffee, and I'd not even try it in cornflakes.... On the upside, black pudding is very popular here

 

[FagEnd]

I should add that our £170-£210 covers packed lunches for 5 people Monday-Friday, and we don't tend to have takeaways, so that is almost our entire food budget.

£200 for 6 people per week = £4.76 per person per day. Not bad really, considering some people blow more than that on coffee shops every day.

5 people? My you have been busy

 

[Frog]

Just back from Tesco, 1300kc spent (£50). That'll do me and the girlfriend 3 days I guess. I prefer going a couple of times a week since its next door, and I always have fresh food.

 

[namealot]

It’s not the amount of money its what you do with it that can change your life... It tends to just bring different problems?

 

[FagEnd]

It’s not the amount of money its what you do with it that can change your life... It tends to just bring different problems?

You must be loaded, only rich folks think money brings problems

I've been loaded, then skint, then loaded again, and skint.... I'm currently in a skint phase again but still have the same problems as loaded folks The problems are just easier to deal with when you are loaded