I too was brought up to be frugal and very wise where money was concerned. Now I’m luckily in the position where I can but what I want within reason and when I want it without thinking about the cost. I buy everything in my CC and then pay the single bill off monthly by using the freephone payment line quoting my DC number.
Hello all I do not have to be frugal but I do sort of burdget in that I have the old fashioned silverline pocket cash books in one for income and bills and one for everything I buy @Summer when you start doing a daily tally it first scares you then hooks you. LOL
Wow, I’d love to see those old accounts. It’s a real part of history. Make sure they get passed on to the next generation, I’m sure people will be fascinated when they read them.
I have done this for years and can’t stop the habit. Day to day spending I refer back to old notebooks to see where items have risen in price. The cash book I can’t give up as it tells me exactly how much I have in my accounts, or how much I have left to spend for the month. Once I enter the monthly DDs, along with my pensions, whatever is left is mine, unless I have a quarterly or half yearly bill due (tv licence, BT, and the sewerage charge).
Often I have tried to get my younger sister to do it, but she’d prefer not to. When she goes short she goes on the cadge.
Mum’s diaries and housekeeping books and all the family photos were left to me in her Will. Sadly, a family member went in her house and helped himself to the lot! Mum left them to me because she knew I liked family history and would appreciate them. Everything has gone and I have been heartbroken since she passed away at end of 2020.
The solicitor and the Police say there is nothing I can do.
I might have a few notes I made myself about ingredient prices in the back of an old cookery book. Will have a look.
My father must have given my mother housekeeping money but I never witnessed it and I have no idea how much.
No, hold on, my father used to grow the fruit & veg, a cow provided the milk, mother made butter & some cheese. Meat came form the farm, salmon and game birds from the local poacher/gamekeeper. My mother used to get other things delivered, pay later, by cheque presumably.
I know it sounds a bit posh, but no, just a simple country life.
I do it too, not to the extent of my shopping list but for anything I spend using a card. I often wonder how people know what they have left in the bank when they use these ‘tap and go’ cards and never get a receipt…. Maybe they just wait until it’s a case of bank say no !! Then they stop spending again until pay day.
I have seen people buying large items and not wanting a receipt! I think the same as you, how can they keep on top of their spending? Unless they have that much money it doesn’t matter,
Whenever I am in the local card shop so Holly can have a fuss from our neighbour who works there, most people pay by card/phone and invariably none of them wants the receipt. Me, I record every penny I spend.
You must be joking! I wrote twice asking for them to be returned to me and he didn’t even reply. Like I said, Police and solicitor say even though they were left to me in my Mum’s Will, once they’ve gone there is nothing you can do.
So did I Ralph. But the solicitor said there’s nothing I can do and the Police say we cannot prove who stole them. I told them he was the only person who had a key and the house wasn’t burgled so it is obviously him. Apparently that’s not proof enough.
