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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[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.