My mom overdoes it with food shopping. Im the baby of the family and she doesnt realize that her 3 other daughters dont live here anymore, and she still shops at the grocery store every week and ends up spending over 100$ every time. she brings home food that we dont need or things we already have. she always buys at least 2 bags of salad mix every week as well as fruits and veggies and most of it just sits there untouched till it goes bad.
ive tried to help her a few times and tell her that we dont need so much food, but she never stops overbuying. she still buys as if there were 4 kids in the house to feed! what can i do to get her to stop? i would like her to save more of her money.
2007-01-24 05:17:09 · 10 answers · asked by Cherie 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
oops sorry this was posted under the wrong category.
2007-01-24 05:19:05 · update #1
start with a menu...
2007-01-24 05:19:28 · answer #1 · answered by elchavoguapo 6 · 2⤊ 0⤋
You better tell your mom that she is wasting her money, time and life! You can exaggerate how much money she speeds every time she buys something and that will probably make her realize that she overspending after a while.
Also you should say something like: "You could have bought something better than a bag of oranges if you actually wait for the right price to buy. You could have bought 2 times the oranges if you waited. Also, you wouldn't finish it anyway so why bother buying it." and so on.
You basically need to rant and she will eventually give up. It works for me.
2007-01-24 13:33:10 · answer #2 · answered by Etania 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Offer 2 do the shopping for her. Then you buy what you think you need. Maybe she does not want to admit that her babies are growing up. Go every week as she would but do not speed as much. Hopefully that works b/c I know how it feels to watch food go bad. We are Italian and there are only 3 of us but when my mom cooks she cooks for 10 and I hate leftovers.
2007-01-24 13:25:25 · answer #3 · answered by lizzy 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Make the list, take her 100, and offer to do something nice for her and u go shopping. Save the money for 2 months, and receipts, then give her the money back and say mom...this is what we needed, people are starving all over the world and we have food going bad. I love you and i just wanted to tell you to stop going food crazy every week.
It worked with my mom lol
2007-01-24 13:21:45 · answer #4 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I got a subscription to Rachel Ray's mag. it has a weekly menu plan with a shopping list in every issue. It has helped some and there are so many great meals in it.
2007-01-24 13:34:25 · answer #5 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
nah if i were u i will go and do the shopping myself and buy things that we need
but one thing for sure ur mom juz don't want u to wake up or come home there is nothing much u can eat
there is something good about too many food u get to choose what u like to eat
2007-01-24 13:20:35 · answer #6 · answered by astrid 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Go shopping with her and help her out. Maybe your mom is expecting company, lol
2007-01-24 13:22:18 · answer #7 · answered by coffeemate 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask her to handle the money assets. Or get her some help.
2007-01-24 13:21:28 · answer #8 · answered by serenity 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i have the same prob as ur mam
2007-01-24 13:21:22 · answer #9 · answered by Belosnezhka (aka Gex) 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
eat up, or start inviting more friends over!
2007-01-24 13:20:22 · answer #10 · answered by Viviana 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋