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@ Flick 🇬🇧
2025-05-10 09:31:39
Because Reasons, I spent a bit of time yesterday guesstimating the split of my essential to discretionary spending.
This was as tedious as it sounds, but it throws up some interesting questions. Things like fabric for quilts and electricity are easy to categorise, but then you get on to dog food: obviously I have to feed the dog, but actually owning a dog?
And then the ducks, obviously not essential but if I didn’t have them then my food bill (essential) would be higher.
Three years ago, I spent £20 on asparagus crowns: obviously not essential. But then again I’ve probably had £10 worth of asparagus off them this year (so far). But then again again, spending £10 on a couple of bunches of early season asparagus is obviously not essential, when I could buy a bag of carrots for 50p.
It’s possible I am over-thinking the exercise.