A savvy shopper, bored of her husband's 'moaning' about swaps to cheaper groceries has shared her frustration with fellow mums. The reaction resulted in calls for the partner's 'unreasonable' response to be met with 'strikes', while others responded telling him to 'get over it', adding simply: "The whining is seriously unattractive".
As the cost of living rises put ever increasing strain on household budgets, Brits across the UK are make swaps and cut backs when it comes to their grocery shopping. However, the reining in on buying top brand products in one household has caused upset and blacklash. After posting about the issue on parenting forum mumsnet, the response from fellow shoppers was overwelming.
Some 134 people replied to the post, in which the shopper wrote: "Like most others our family have had to rethink budgeting. We can no longer afford to buy all branded stuff and I’ve made quite a few changes to our grocery shop." They added that their husband was "constantly ‘commenting’" about the switches that had been made, annoying the poster. They said he'd made comments such as "oh can’t we afford Charmin anymore this toilet roll is not very good, you need to use twice the amount’" and "’This bacon is so thin it all breaks up and you can’t cook it properly", as well as "I don’t like this brown sauce, why can’t we have HP?". She added: "I’ve suggested he does the shopping but he refuses."
