Minimum you could live on (weekly)?

Ukadder · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:07

All of this is paid out on a weekly basis....TV licence £12....

You spend £624 a year on a TV licence!

stig · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:43

Rent - £450 a week
Bills work out at £40 a week incl phone
Petrol - £40-50
Food for me and gf - £30

total is about £570 a week

Nana · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:44

Rotty said:
I'm going to break down the costs seeing as everyone else is , reckon I will only upset myself though

iiii

I ended up wondering where the hell all the quids come from.

But on thinking about it.... about 75k per year is pretty much on the button, my wife and I both run our own businesses, and we have income from investments etc.....

Nana · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:46

Arcade Fire said:
Dude... I thought you were about 17!

in my dreams......

schnipps · 17 Feb 2006 at 10:49

stig said:
Rent - £450 a week
Bills work out at £40 a week incl phone
Petrol - £40-50
Food for me and gf - £30

total is about £570 a week

450 quid a week rent!!!! 1800 pcm, where do you live in penthouse apartment? Thats more than my mortgage is per month

Jez · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:23

Rent is always generally more than a mortgage would be over 25 years on the same place. I could mortgage my place for less if the owner would sell it.

Kaiju · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:28

I need around £200 a week, £100 for necessities (bills, food, etc) and £100 for impulse purchases. I found that even with two jobs and a University loan that my expenditure and my gambling habits were leaving me in poor shape for the upcoming month. Thankfully i've got into eBay and it's all levelled out.

toy_soldier · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:37

Paras said:
yes i know my mobile bill is way too high, on average its around £180 per month. Im going to setup a VOIP account as soon as i get ADSL put in my flat which should save me at lest £50 per month.

Good idea!! I thought my phone bills were bad coming in at ~£75 a month!

afraser2k · 17 Feb 2006 at 11:49

Well if we're talking minimum I could live on then:

Public transport to/from work: £10 a week.
Food: £20 a week (Tesco value plus lunch for work costs).
Utilities: £10 a week (average over the year probably).
Mortgage + House Insurance: £57 a week.
Council Tax: £23 a week.

So total is roughly £120 a week before "luxury" extras. Everything else is not essential to me to live on as you can live without a TV/internet/phone (use a local payphone), not that I'd want to.

Abraham · 17 Feb 2006 at 12:15

seeing as i'm currently skint until payday i can do this fairly accurately: all weekly
rent: £60
(gas, elec, landline, net): £4.35
mobile: £5
Bus pass: £2
Food: £25

i could live on less for food, but that is the amount i have available for food, some will probably go on other things
as my car is currently off the road and i'm off the drink that's pretty much my total

£96.35 a week

big_white_dog84 · 17 Feb 2006 at 12:31

Rent and bills: ~£80
Mobile: ~£5
Food: £15

That's probably it. I can walk to Uni. £100pw would keep me fed with a roof over my head.

xander_uk2 · 17 Feb 2006 at 13:23

Nana said:
alcohol - 50 per week.

!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek:

Nana · 17 Feb 2006 at 13:32

xander_uk2 said:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!

tbh thats one bottle of wine if you go into the wrong shop.

£50 a week is reserved imo.

Mr_L · 17 Feb 2006 at 13:38

Ah rememba whan eur loaf o' 'ovis 'n eur pack o' yorshire teeur 'ood last theur eur week.

Those wor t' days.

Arcade Fire · 17 Feb 2006 at 15:42

Amoeba said:
Jesus, some of you people spend up to £600 a week?! You must have decent jobs, thats like 30,000 a year! :O

There are people on here earning a lot more than that.