Cutting The Food Bill

[poliphilo]

We borrowed a hell of a lot of money to get the house fixed.

(Mortgage- a sinister word; doesn't it mean something like "hand of death"?)

And Ailz proposes that it is merely sensible, merely decent, that we limit our spending in the run-up to Christmas.

£40 a week on food. And we've been spending something like £120. 

Can we do it? 

It's either cut the food bill or stop buying DVDs.

Hmm. That concentrates the mind. 

Fancy cheeses or a  newly released Bunuel? 

I think I know  myself well enough...

I hope I do.

This is going to be quite a test of character.

Comments

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Could you join one of those sites which sends you rental DVDs through the post from a list of favourites you've compiled, instead of buying them new? If you're buying and watching lots, it would probably be an economy, and save you from building up piles of them in your house which you may never watch again.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

We already belong to one of those DVD clubs.

I'm afraid I'm a little irrational about my favourite films. I want to own them- just as I want to own my favourite books. I know it doesn't make a whole lot of sense...

[strange-complex.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'm pretty much the same. I just get away with it in my case because I don't watch that many DVDs, so it isn't too expensive a habit.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

My mania is tempered by there not being that many directors whose work I admire enough to want to own it.

I'd like complete sets of Bergman, Bunuel, Fellini and Welles, but otherwise....