Re: Spending Money?
I always wonder how my colleagues who take the same salary and benefits buy new car models and change their furniture so frequently.
I have analysed that i spend lot more money on food stuff and kids education than my colleagues.
We eat lots of fruits, vegetable, meat and milk products. Plus Begum does not compromise on quality and likings of kids or rest of the family. We bring three types of bread home, brown for Mom&Dad, white for us and rolls for kids. 2kgs of milk, 2 kg Laban and 1 Kg youghurt has to be brought daily and has to be fresh (not long life). Fruits are also consumed in large quantity. Only me usually eat 2-3 apples, 2-3 bananas, pears and a glass of orange juice daily. So do Mom, Dad and kids.
Many a times there are 4 foods being cooked simultaneously in the kitchen. One for the two older kids, one for me as i totally avoid oil, a regular one for wife and Mom/Dad and one for the little one. Usually Begum cooks three times for the kids, rice at noon, fried meat/chicken in the afternoon and roti/pasta at night.
I wonder how do you people do it?
i dont know where u live but what i see ppl doing here is that they buy almost everything (apart from groceries) on Credit Cards! and lead a life of stress, stress and more stress bcoz the interest on not paying the loan on time is huge... australia faces a big problem as far as that is concerned.
Alhumdulillah it is good that you guys eat a lot fruit... we do too... but i know way too many families that dont !
just for me, my dad buys 17 kilo waale watermelon... i do share it... but most of it is mine!!!