monthly pays suck...

Marshlands produce place, and then normally countdown in Kaiapoi.
I cannot stand pak n sav. I actually went in the one on moorhouse one day and got so annoyed that I wheeled my trolley to the boot of my car and just tipped it in. I'm all for packing my own bags, its what you do in the uk but there they put a conveyor going away from the till so you can pack. What on earth is the point of them packing it into the trolley, which takes just as long as packing into bags, for me to then have to repack.
I just can't shop there, it isn't good for my blood pressure...lol

i cant stand pak n save... I dont think it actually saves me any money either. And well I used to work there, so that makes me hate it even more! he hee hee

I love pak n save.

I really need to cute down on my spending I spent $250 today ona fortnight shop but then will spend about $50 on fruit veges and milk next week.

Theres a website (which I can't remember) and people manage to go shopping for $21 a week I'm guna check it out and try and cut my bill down, its getting stupid.

its called simplesavings.co.nz, rachandjack

I've been getting paid monthly for years now. Sure it takes some getting used to, but it gets to be a breeze - I don't even notice it any more.
That said, I have arunning budget, with all money coming in and all money going out ie mortgage, weekly bills, monthly bills etc and we stick to it as much as we can. It does help to also budget to have some money left over as it's sooo easy to overspend.

[QUOTE=cuppatea] We were monthly paid in the Uk and it took some adjusting for us when we became weekly paid out here [QUOTE]
Same here, it still seems strange having fortnightly pay and bills, especially when Neil and I are/were paid on different fortnights so a dollop of money goes in every week. On monthly pay there always seemed a lot of month left at the end of the money. But you will get your head round it

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i normally spend around $60 a week at the supermarket. but in saying that we dont buy meat and only buy milk for me as i cant drink it out of the vat while preggy.

we live off a super duper tight budget. i think i have mentioned before how much we live off a week-$230, that is for everything except insurance, ph, savings(emergancy money). but at the moment df and i are talking about changing that as we are starting to struggle a bit with trying to save for the twins(not an emergancy so dfs parents wont let us touch the savings, and df needs one of their signatures to access the account.

in regards to being paid monthly(sorry i went off topic)- when we finally go sharemilking(lower order to start with) we will be paid monthly, and while the cows are dry we wont get paid at all.....