Vices Vices Vices - List 'em here

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Vices Vices Vices - List 'em here
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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 10:50am

We all got one. We know it. You can't hide from it.


What's your vice? Have you accepted being able to eliminate it from your budget or do you let yourself indulge?


I'll be honest - my vice? Diet coke from McDonalds. Don't know what it is. The cup, fountain syrup, straw combo....DELISH! I can have a diet coke from the can but its just not the same.


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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 11:13am

Hmmm where do I start, lol!


1) Food!!! Even though BF and I are eating at home and taking our lunches (we only ate out once in the last two weeks and that was because we got stuck at the airport, hmph) I still find that we are spending a lot of money. We are not eating on the cheap, just eating in if that makes sense. I will have almost everything for a meal, and we will run out to get the one or two things and STILL spend $20. Ugh!


2) Impulse purchases (can you say Treadmill!!!!). The only good thing is that I have actually been using it (well I was until I came down with a cold yesterday) So I am not TOO upset about it :)


I could go on and on but its depressing so I will leave it at that, lol


Bex -


"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift -thats why its called the present."


Bex -

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Registered: 11-17-2007
Thu, 01-15-2009 - 12:16pm

www.shopgoodwill.com That is my vise Since I can not walk around stores so much I am totally addicted to that sight.


But I have cut down to more then half what I was spending at one time now.


My house is little and it is filling up fast.


Mary Ann


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Registered: 10-01-2008
Thu, 01-15-2009 - 12:29pm

Oh!

Norma


"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"- Plautus


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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 12:32pm
Romance books is my vice, I love to read, I've read all of the romance books at my library, I have a collection of over 4000, but I can't seem to make myself sell them. but I'm doing better I only bought one new book in 3 weeks to add to my collection,usually during the month I buy 30 or more new and used books, my book seller just gives me the catalog each month for me to order what I want.LOL I had ordered 13 books for next month , but I was good and called and cancelled, boy before and during the call I was trying to figure in my mind how I could get away with it. then when I told my husband what I did , he asked me why that we could afford it, but I didn't break, (patting myself on the back) but boy is it hard.



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Registered: 10-01-2008
Thu, 01-15-2009 - 12:34pm

AND.....


Since I discovered that drug store make up is just as nice or better than department store, I find myself wanting to go to CVS and load up.

Norma


"Patience is the best remedy for every trouble"- Plautus


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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 1:23pm

Books.

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Registered: 11-14-2008
Thu, 01-15-2009 - 2:04pm

Love this post, now where do I start........this could be long LOL!

1. COFFEE, we make it at home (bf loves it too!) I have a grind n brew coffee maker that you buy the beans for. It is so fresh and wonderful. We found some beans we really like at Costco, they are hazelnut vanilla. Soooo good. I program it every night and it brews for me at 6:20 every day. It is wonderful to wake up to! I am also a big fan of all tea, but am onto green teas at the moment.

2. Make-up. I sell avon. I try not to spend more on it than I make. I also buy all my soap, deoderant and shampoo from my profits. I also buy gifts for people with my profits that I would have to buy anyway.

3. Diet pop, love it
4. Chips......Gosh I wish this was not one but it is!



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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 2:51pm

Oh my. Where do I begin, LOL!

Beer & wine. DH and I have some just about every day, and that adds up fast. I wrote up our budget for 2009 to allow for one bottle of wine and one 12-pack of beer a week. Last weekend he bought an extra bottle of wine, which I was saving to open this weekend, but last night he made a delicious pork roast with roasted potatoes, and dontcha know, that bottle of wine was opened and polished off with great delight!

Skincare. I use a few Avon products, but they're the Anew line, not the cheapies, and most of my creams and treatments are from Clarins. But my skin is beautiful when I use them, and it isn't when I've tried other things, so I stick with it. I have to pay for that out of my allowance, but I'll admit I go over my allowance on it, even when I eliminate all the other fun things I'd like to get.

Sweaters and shoes. I get around that by not shopping and by deleting all those sale emails from Ann Taylor, J. Crew, etc without looking at them.

Kelly

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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 2:56pm

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Thu, 01-15-2009 - 2:59pm

Pepsi - although I have been getting better, I'm down to about 2 cans a day now where before I could easily drink a 2 litre bottle per day.

But as I'm replacing it with juice mostly, it doesn't help my financial budget just my health.

I also stay out of Fabricland as I tend to go overboard in the remnant section and bring home all these pretty pieces of fabric that so often I don't have quite enough of to do a project so they get tucked in the "to become a quilt someday" pile.


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