Minimum you could live on (weekly)?

The £75 or so I had a week when I signed on. £55 of that went towards the rent, leaving me with a little over £20 of my own to actually spend on food and the odd night out. I'm glad most of my bills were included with the rent really.
 
Rent at about £55 per week including utilities, food at maybe £20-25 per week. Makes £75-80 minimum. I normally spend more than that on food though, about £30-40 on alcohol and at least £10-15 on music.
 
I take it living expenses and bills aren't included?

I end up spending ~£10-15 a week on food, and then cook as a house (3 of us, so we spend total of £30-45 on food together).
Other than that, I have the rest of the money to go out / socialise with, so that'll range from £10 to £40 a week depending on how busy I am.

If you really wanted to cut back, you could sell the car + get a bus pass... cheaper in the long run :)

So I'm spending ~ £30 - 50 a week on bare essentials.
 
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Insurance, petrol, parking £70 per week on the one car

Rent £73

Spending money + food £80 if I am very careful

Mobile bill £45

So that’s a total of around £265 Wished I lived at home again lol.
 
Live at Home so;

Accomodation - £0
Food - £0
Internet/Phone/TV/Gas/Electricity/Water - £0


I could theoretically get by on £0 per week, if i didnt have a social life, also i could MAKE money because my mum gives me lunch money for college, so i could be £8 up at the end of the week. Woo go me and my stingy student ways :p

/Gigi
 
omg.. none of you live in the real world tbh

mortgage = 200 per week
council tax and insurance another 100
car fuel insurance and maintainence another 100
net phone mobile electrics oil and water insurance (not car) - all bills prolly another 200 at least
alcohol - 50 per week
food including my weekly chinese and indian prolly another 100 at least
then other expenses like purchases at least another 150...... the 2 kids contribute to that mightily
employment - gardener and cleaner another 70 per week....
other bills like credit cards and student loans another 120 ish
national insurance contributions.. 10 pw
then taxes, alright i pay them all in one go, but it has to be 500 a week when i pay my tax return at the end of a year...

im not sure what it comes to, but if i added up all the money i spent in a year I'd probably be appalled.


edit: just re-read this and some of those figures are actually pcm.. so this entire post is nonsense.
 
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Nana said:
omg.. none of you live in the real world tbh

mortgage = 200 per week
council tax and insurance another 100
car fuel insurance and maintainence another 100
net phone mobile electrics oil and water insurance (not car) - all bills prolly another 200 at least
alcohol - 50 per week
food including my weekly chinese and indian prolly another 100 at least
then other expenses like purchases at least another 150...... the 2 kids contribute to that mightily
employment - gardener and cleaner another 70 per week....
other bills like credit cards and student loans another 120 ish
national insurance contributions.. 10 pw
then taxes, alright i pay them all in one go, but it has to be 500 a week when i pay my tax return at the end of a year...

im not sure what it comes to, but if i added up all the money i spent in a year I'd probably be appalled.
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Dude... I thought you were about 17!
 
Rent:£75
Getting to work: £15
Food for work: £15
Drinks again for work: £10
Mobile: £12.50
Internet: £6.25
Food: £30
Electrickery: £20

I figure at just over £200 a week including some other items I can't be arsed to calculate, so not too bad :(
 
Currently live on:
£75 a week rent including all bills/10MB internet
£9.60 for the bus
£40 for food
£10 for phone
£10 diesel for the car
£20-40 on socialising
£10 a week goes in a jar for PC upgrades.

£174.60 to £194.60

I'm a student, but I wouldn't live on less than this.
 
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