Yes and then you have to minus interest, unless you know where I can get one of these 0% Mortgages!
How much would you need to be earning...
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Yes and then you have to minus interest, unless you know where I can get one of these 0% Mortgages!
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Which bit of that do you want to lose?
The income tax?
The council tax?
The food?
Even if you halve that figure.
£750 mortgage
£200 shopping/groceries
£250 fuel
£100 utilities
£100 council tax
£100 car servicing and insurance
£50 sky
£35 mobile phone
£100 holiday money
£100 savings
Leaves you £400 per month spare to cover every other cost, to entertain yourself, to buy household things/consumer goods/clothes. That's assuming you want to live without kids too
This sounds about correct to me, i can't see why Fox is having an issue with fuel costs or holiday money, i can easily spend 1200 on a weeks holiday, nevermind two weeks in America...
Fox must be thinking about those last minute cheap deals to the med tbh!
That made me think, we have spent just over £7000 on holidays this year
Quite easy though isnt it. A weekend away in NY just for me and wife totalled near on £3k!
Thats just crazy money!
two weeks in france in a gite with ferries, petrol and living costs only came to around £750 last year!
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Depends what you look for from a holiday, My parents usually like to book a place in france for two weeks most years, its a chance for me and the current GF + Sister and BF to come out and chill out, last time we did this it cost my parents 2.5k just for the villa rental.
I could goto france and stay for two weeks in a field for 50p but it wouldn't have been half as nice as the above.
I could goto france and stay for two weeks in a field for 50p but it wouldn't have been half as nice as the above.
I am in a similar situation as in I rent a place with my girlfriend, don't have kids, on an ok ish income and I would never throw a lot of money at a holiday as I like to see something for my money, so I don't have any problems paying out 10k for a car. If you compare this to my income its a fair chunk but I don't have a lot of outgoings
Thats flights, hotel and spending money. Wasn't really a planned holiday so didnt take time to wait for specific deals or anything.
2.5k for the villa! Thats absolutely crazy! Theres no way that 2.5K on a villa for two weeks can be worth the difference over £300/week staying in an 3 bedroom cottage in the middle of the countryside.
If I had that sort of disposable income I certainly wouldn't waste it like that!
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Why, it was a fantastic place with a huge outdoor heated pool, games rooms, massive kitchen etc in the hills overlooking the south coast.
waste it?
it clearly does the job of chilling out the whole family allowing them to recharge their batteries.
How many cottages that sleep 6 (comfortably) are there for £300 a week in summer?
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Infact i'm booked up to goto America this year for two weeks with 11 friends, we are doing the usual villa style holiday which when split between a few of you works out at a really good price :
£200 villa
£140 park tickets
£400 - 600 Flights
£75ish each for 2x hire cars
£1000 spending money (food etc)
And thats without thinking about other things or going ott, fair enough you can goto spain for £200 for a week but i've done that and it was rubbish compaired to doing it in a nice hotel.
Holidays cost money, i don't class it as flash or anything its just the cost of going away imho.
£200 villa
£140 park tickets
£400 - 600 Flights
£75ish each for 2x hire cars
£1000 spending money (food etc)
And thats without thinking about other things or going ott, fair enough you can goto spain for £200 for a week but i've done that and it was rubbish compaired to doing it in a nice hotel.
Holidays cost money, i don't class it as flash or anything its just the cost of going away imho.
exactly
Some pepople such as scoobydoo69 are quite content to drop most of their income on their car and live at home.
Best example i can give, was the Operations Director of my last company. He was on the board of directors, reportedly had a 3 figure pay sum, but yet drove a tatty old mk 3 golf GTI. The warehouse manager, reportedly on not far off as much, drove a Peugeot 307 diesel.
It all hinges on what you want from life, so there is no real answer to the question of how much you need to earn to drop 40k on a car.
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You and the wife... all Munchers figures are based on the curiously unlikely scenario of being a loner
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So are most of mine (Cost Per Person)
(Cost Per Person)[TW]Fox;11568808 said:You and the wife... all Munchers figures are based on the curiously unlikely scenario of being a loner
Indeed, but i paid for all of it, she didn't spend a cent of her own.
If you want ot be pedantic though, that was £1500 if went alone for a weekend. Equally as much of an expense as £3k for 2 people.
You questioned £1200 for one person on a years worth of holidays.
Becuase you'd have done exactly the same things at exactly half the price had you been all on your own?
A holiday on your own is not half the price of one with 2 people - it's a lot more than that as most hotels are not appreciably cheaper becuase you pay per room not person.
A holiday on your own is not half the price of one with 2 people - it's a lot more than that as most hotels are not appreciably cheaper becuase you pay per room not person.
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Cost per person is usually more if you go alone (hotel costs), granted you wouldn't have eaten out as much etc.