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UK families' spending habits changing, annual survey shows

A nation of tea drinkers? UK families' spending habits changing, annual survey shows | Money | The Guardian
http://www.theguardian.com/money/2015/d ... ual-survey


	Quote: The average figures mask huge disparities between regions and income groups. In London, the typical household spent 44% more each week than households in the north-east, largely because their mortgages cost an average of £208 a week, compared with just £114 in the north-east. Scottish households, many in deeply rural areas, spent most on cars, while Londoners spent the least. The Northern Irish spent the most on food, which the ONS put down to larger family sizes.

Families are enormous in every way in Ulster


	Quote: The figures give a fascinating breakdown of British spending priorities. We may be a nation of tea drinkers, but we spend more on coffee (80p a week) than on tea (50p). The average household spends £4 a week on wine for the home, more than twice the amount spent on beer (£1.70). Household in the south-east spend 75% more on wine than drinkers in the north-east.

Say you're drinking Nescafe coffee, would you lot consider it expensive? I'm always staggered at the price of teabags when I do our Tesco order. The booze sounds about right.


	Quote: More money is spent on the National Lottery and the bookies (£2.90 a week) than is spent on admissions to cinemas, theatres and museums (£2.80). But we spend more on memberships of gyms (£1.90 a week) than we spend on going to football matches or other sports events (70p).

No bloody wonder.


	Quote: Spending on recreation and culture jumped by 6.8% from £64.40 a week in 2013 to £68.80 in 2014. It has bucked the trend of falling spending elsewhere, rising from an inflation-adjusted £54.20 in the survey year ending March 2002.

I'm assuming that's TV packages of every description? Sounds about right too.


	Quote: The last 15 years have seen British households spending less and less on food, restaurants and “miscellaneous goods” but more on housing, fuel, power, recreation and culture. One of the biggest falls in spending has been on cigarettes, with the typical household now spending £3.40 a week. Only 800 of the 5,130 households in the survey bought any cigarettes.

Er... that 800 number doesn't seem likely.


	Quote: The French may call the British les rosbifs, but the typical British household spends more on chicken than any other meat (£2.40 a week, compared with £2 on beef). We also spend far more on semi-skimmed milk (£1.70 a week) than on whole milk (40p), but they are both beaten by the amount we spend on chocolate each week (£1.90). In total, British households spend the same amount each week on confectionary and ice cream as they do on fresh fruit.

Mainstream chocolate is a taste failure for me these days, and I'm whole milk all the way.


	Quote: Clothing spending shows the persistently large gap between men and women. While the typical household spends £431.60 a year on women’s outer garments, they spend just £260 on men’s outer garments. Women spend £52 a year on knickers, but men spend just £26 a year on pants.

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Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:23 pm

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	Quote: In total, British households spend the same amount each week on confectionary and ice cream as they do on fresh fruit.

That's because fruit is in comparative terms much, much cheaper than confectionary. I can buy several apples or oranges for the price of one chocolate bar.

Quite a lot of the comparisons are that way. Comparing spend on chicken vs beef for example - you can get four chicken breasts for the price of one steak...

Tue Dec 08, 2015 3:44 pm

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Re: UK families' spending habits changing, annual survey shows

We never buy instant coffee, but we look for discounts on the filter coffee we buy, usually around 3.79€ at the moment for 500g Dallmayr Prodomo, down from the normal price of 4.99€. When the price sinks, we usually buy 10 - 12 packets to last us several months until we see another offer.

Tea is fairly expensive here, 30 tea bags of Darjeeeling or Redbush (herbal) cost about 1.39€ for Lidl brand or just under 2€ for a named brand.

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Wed Dec 09, 2015 4:53 am

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Re: UK families' spending habits changing, annual survey shows

Everything sounds about right, coffee we bring from France where it's a quarter of the price it is here (usually around 2 or 3 e per Kg for filter).

except I spend way more than that on clothes. I try to stop,but then some fool releases these babies

There's no mention of phones, video games, etc, I must spend on average £100 a year on games minimum.

Wed Dec 09, 2015 9:45 am

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