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Power of supermarkets
On 01/09/13 11:24, David Hill wrote:
How the hell did our parents and grand parents survive? Part of their survival involved spending ~30% of income on food. That's now down to ~15% There are multiple reasons for that change, but big supermarkets are part of it. |
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Tom Gardner wrote:
Part of their survival involved spending ~30% of income on food. That's now down to ~15% Is that really the % of income spent? I may have to make it tonight's project to work out the % I spend on various things. I suspect, but need to confirm, that the order will be: mortgage; transport; childcare and possibly /then/ food Hmm. Is that /all/ food, including eating out? Where does any going out for drinks go, is that food or socialising/other? |
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On 1 Sep 2013 20:01:56 GMT, Victoria Conlan wrote:
I may have to make it tonight's project to work out the % I spend on various things. I suspect, but need to confirm, that the order will be: mortgage; transport; childcare and possibly /then/ food Last 12 months it's energy (£6400), transport ie cars and fuel (£5500), groceries (£4300), children are teenagers (£800, mainly clothes), no mortgage. Hmm. Is that /all/ food, including eating out? Where does any going out for drinks go, is that food or socialising/other? Don't do those, can't afford it. -- Cheers Dave. |
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Dave Liquorice wrote:
I may have to make it tonight's project to work out the % I spend on various things. I suspect, but need to confirm, that the order will be: mortgage; transport; childcare and possibly /then/ food Last 12 months it's energy (?6400), transport ie cars and fuel (?5500), groceries (?4300), children are teenagers (?800, mainly clothes), no mortgage. I pay nearly 25/day just to get to/from work, 3-4 days a week. Childcare is about the same per day, but is nearer the 4 days a week, so probably slightly edges out transport. The kids are about to start having school dinners most days (Benjamin already does most days, Daniel used to be packed lunch, but we've gone through the menu and he's agreed to all but 2 days out of 3 weeks) - that's 2/day/child, which I'm not sure how it will compare with packed lunch contents. |
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Power of supermarkets
On 2013-09-01 21:01:56 +0100, Victoria Conlan said:
Tom Gardner wrote: Part of their survival involved spending ~30% of income on food. That's now down to ~15% Is that really the % of income spent? I may have to make it tonight's project to work out the % I spend on various things. I suspect, but need to confirm, that the order will be: mortgage; transport; childcare and possibly /then/ food Hmm. Is that /all/ food, including eating out? Where does any going out for drinks go, is that food or socialising/other? Socialising but too random to be properly added into an equation? -- Sacha www.hillhousenursery.com South Devon www.helpforheroes.org.uk |
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Power of supermarkets
On 01/09/13 21:01, Victoria Conlan wrote:
Tom Gardner wrote: Part of their survival involved spending ~30% of income on food. That's now down to ~15% Is that really the % of income spent? I wouldn't stake my life on it, but IIRC those are about the quoted percentages. But the variance would be interesting, as would the percentages as a function of income; I doubt Bill Gates spends 15% of his income on food So I suspect the stats obscure as much as they illuminate, and it is always worth remembering that 37% of statistics are made up on the spot. I may have to make it tonight's project to work out the % I spend on various things. Sometimes interesting; always worthwhile. I suspect, but need to confirm, that the order will be: mortgage; transport; childcare and possibly /then/ food Hmm. Is that /all/ food, including eating out? Where does any going out for drinks go, is that food or socialising/other? Who knows |
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Tom Gardner wrote:
So I suspect the stats obscure as much as they illuminate, and it is always worth remembering that 37% of statistics are made up on the spot. In a moment of work-avoidance, I have analysed my last few credit card bills and come out with the following: (this is not % of income, this is %age of total credit card bill, so I'm not sure if this is a good or bad way of taking into account when we have a low spending month, ie when taking holiday off work) Transport:- May:35% June:60% Jul:39% Aug:57% Groceries:- May:39% June:25% Jul:22% Aug:23% Going out:- May: 9% June:13% Jul: 6% Aug: 3% House/Gdn:- May:12% June: 2% Jul: 7% Aug:15% Other :- May: 5% June: 0 Jul:26% Aug: 2% Childcare is not included, because that comes direct off salary, and is a fixed amount of around 15% of income/month, even though the actual amount is varied, if that makes sense. So basically, other thn May which seems to have been a bit grocery-heavy for some reason (which possibly means it included something non-grocery on a supermarket shop, such as grow bags or something similar), my travel costs far outweigh my food costs. |
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