Price of milk

[ghoti_mhic_uait]

I was just looking into the cost of a milkman, because the price of milk in shops has risen dramatically recently (I suspect the milkman price has too). Turns out the weekly cost of having our milk delivered by a milkman is almost twice that of buying it at Waitrose. That's not quite true, because of petrol coses, but I actually mostly can be bothered to walk to Tesco/Budgens, and therefore only drive (or have shopping delivered) when I need a lot anyway.

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[ghoti.livejournal.com]

But personally I use a milkman because it's convenient for me We have a veg box delivered for exactly that reason.

I'm sure if it took longer than ten minutes to walk to a shop, milk delivery would be more cost effective/buying milk would be less convenient, but for us it's just not worth it.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

precisely: our nearest Co-op is two minutes walk away...

[rmc28]

Our Co-op is only 3 minutes walk away, but we get milk delivered because it comes before I get up, and I got fed up of having to go shopping before having my breakfast because one of the housemates (or me!) had finished all the milk the previous night. I really don't function well until I've had breakfast, and I like porridge or cereal if at all possible.

It also means less rubbish for us, as we return the bottles. We recently got them delivering orange juice as well, which is also in returnable bottles, which cut out another source of rubbish for us (and means I rarely miss my morning OJ hit either).

It's definitely more expensive than even the local Co-op, and it has gone up this year (with an apologetic letter explaining so) but it's still not that expensive in the grand scheme of things, and we can afford it, and it makes us happy.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

which is fair enough, but we don't have housemates stealing our milk, and we buy in larger bottles, so there is milk in our house at breakfast time. Actually, in our old house we did have a milkman, but then we moved to a new place without a milk round and it didn't seem necessary; it might have been nice when the children were smaller, but they're bigger now.

[rmc28]

Just to clarify, the housemates weren't 'stealing' the milk, we used to buy big communal bottles. And sometimes it was me finishing the bottle and then realising the shop was shut (or saying "I'll go later" and then forgetting).

I'm not saying you're wrong not to have a milkman, just trying to explain why even with the Co-op so close, a milkman really works for happiness in our household. If I were less lazy or less grumpy first thing in the morning we would probably not benefit so much from it.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

I don't mean that you are wrong to have a milkman, just explaining why we don't. I suppose it depends on whether the time you have free to go to the shops is at the same time that the shops is open. Sometimes I am too lazy to shop, and I phone John to make him buy some on the way home instead.

[rmc28]

Forgot to add that the milkman comes 4 days a week not every day, so I also maintain a stock of emergency UHT milk JUST IN CASE we run out on the non-delivery days. This very very rarely happens, but when it does I am very glad for the stock.

[alison-lees.livejournal.com]

and we never buy UHT either...