I was staggered to learn that a couple with young children were spending around £300 a WEEK on takeaway food.
This is while they were living with the husband’s mother so that they could save money for a deposit to buy their own house.
This was revealed on a television show where the popular television presenter and author, Michael Mosley, helped people to develop better eating habits and reverse any health issues bad eating was causing them.
I can’t remember how many years they had been living with the husband’s mother, but I believe it was a few, and according to the mother, the takeaway binging was a regular thing.
Their £300 a week takeaway habit was costing them £15,600 a year… possibly more.
What struck me was the look on the faces of the couple when they realised that they could have had the deposit for a house one or two years ago had they not been wasting it on takeaway food.
They had no idea as to how much money they were spending on takeaways. They were just ordering and eating it whenever they were hungry.
If I remember correctly, there were tears at the realisation that their junk food habit was the reason they hadn’t got a deposit for a house of their own. It’s easy to understand why.
They had become so accustomed and comfortable living with the husband’s mother and eating a tonne of takeaway food, that it far outweighed the mental discomfort of not having their own home.
They might have wanted their own place… but they clearly didn’t want it enough.
They were obviously quite settled to the point that they were not actively focusing on saving money, or on their future.
Their want and need for a home of their own took a backseat and became a mere wish.
Wishing is weak; it is a very poor motivator of action.
I don’t know how much money they needed for a deposit, but if they spent £300 on takeaway food each week – which it appears that they did – and they did that for two years, they have wasted £31,200 which is a HUGE amount of cash.
It would certainly go a long way towards a deposit.
In the right hands, £31,200 would be life changing… in fact it was, it was causing them a lot of unwanted health issues and holding them back.
I hate to keep saying it – but unfortunately it needs saying – a lot of people waste money on things that are considered as part of ‘daily living’, then they complain that they do not have any money spare that could be used to change their circumstances.
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Only today, before starting to write this, I read an article by a woman who was sharing the questions and answer she’d regularly get from people regarding a £2,500 coaching program she was selling.
When people asked how much was needed to invest in the program, over 90% of them would say that either it was too pricey, or they couldn’t afford it.
Her answer to those people was that they could either spend the money investing in their future, or they could keep the money and stay where they are for the foreseeable.
Just like the couple who were living with the husband’s mother, unable to move on because they were not actively focusing on their future, people who think something is too pricey will not see their lives change.
Buying a product is not just ‘buying a product’; it is investing in yourself and making changes to your future.
The woman who wrote the article, she too ‘couldn’t afford to get started’ when she got started.
She nervously dipped into her remaining savings, unsure as to whether she would succeed or not, and spent over £2,500 to learn something which made her £30,000 back in the first six months, and then grew to become a six-figure-a-year business.
Yes, there is a fine line between taking unnecessary risks where you foolishly throw money away and investing in a product or program which will deliver a greater return on your investment.
Knowing one from the other is not particularly easy.
The point is that people do genuinely believe that they cannot afford to do something that could be life changing, yet they waste a small fortune on stuff that does nothing but keep them down, as was the case with the couple trying to save for a deposit for a house.
They could have been living in their new family home by now had they not been constantly gorging themselves on burgers, chips. pizzas, and kebabs.
To change your life or circumstances, you need to take positive action.
You need to be aware of what you are doing each and every day.
Having a good understanding of your habits and knowing what you spend your time and money on most days is powerful.
It is freeing, and it is life changing.
Knowledge Is Power!
Some knowledge you can gain from taking time out to study yourself, ask yourself questions to learn more about what it is that you really want and what is preventing you from getting it.
Other times you need to pay to acquire specific information that can make you move forward in life.
It is a balance of the two.
However, knowledge alone will not change your life. Knowledge may be powerful, but without action, is nothing more than knowing a collection of facts and figures.
Universities, schools, and colleges are full of people who ‘know’ a lot of stuff, but they may not be successful because they never implemented that knowledge in a way that could change their lives beyond sharing that knowledge with others.
Knowledge And Action…
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Kind regards
John Harrison
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