The countdown to cuts day

Nice pub, expensive steak

So time to explain the cuts challenge to a few colleagues and my partner. 


Colleagues are generally supportive if questioning of why I'd bother.


But they did start poking around on the 'what ifs'... So I'll probably need to set some rules.


My partner, was a little less certain.


Maybe I should have talked the plan through with him first.


I think he's grown accustomed to nice weekend pub lunches and doesn't want to trade the Oxford for the Wetherspoon's Ice Wharf.  I explained that he didn't need to... Say I would usually have the steak (Oxford price around £16 - extortion I know), all I need to do is have a lentil mousaka (nearer £9.50).


But of course that all depends on how it's going. If I don't make 40% on one thing, I'll need to save more on another... So by week 3 my Wetherwrap aversion may have to be overcome if I'm going to succeed.


At the end of the day though, he's on holiday for 2 weeks of the experiment, so if he comes back to me eating Tesco value baked beans and drinking special brew, I imagine he'll just find it funny.