Split up with GF - Living Alone?

Having £400 a month spare after bills is quite a lot to some people. I used to have around the same sometimes a little more left over. Since I lost my job I currently have around £100 and that is for food etc.

Could be a lot worse.
 
400 should be grand, just you will have to curb social expenditure and keep stuff for a rainy day...
Ive cut alcohol out of my "diet" and maybe get takeaway once out every two months or so, and it has curbed my spending right down, to the point i had enough "floating" cash come the end of the year to splash out on investigating a new pc!
As long as you are careful you should have money spare considering you have covered your petrol! (Until the next price hike mind...)
 
Get a flat mate, they effectivly take your ex's place in paying your bills and cleaning and you get to smash whatever pasty you like, even better if the flat mate is a girl then you can smash her pasty in a casual fashion too!
 
I'm quite happy renting if I'm honest - I doubt I'll be ready to own property until I'm in my 40s - although I own property abroad, it's nigh on impossible unless you've got a huge amount of money for a deposit (which I don't).
 
Id say you will manage with £400 just fine. If your friends dont live too far away then obviously as your on your own you can have them round more often now.

And having your own place to yourself opens the doors to more 'opportunies' ;)
 
Thanks for all the input guys! Helps a lot :)

Well yeah having my own place, a resonably nicely paid job and a car really does open "various" doors ;) lol
Gonna be nice to be a single man again with only myself to answer to!

Im gonna have to be careful with my cash from here on in, before I was always splashing money on takeaways for me and the misses, bits for the house here and there, but thats gonna have to go.

Obviously Im gonna want to go out and socialise more, make more friends and meet more women.

To save cash I always have the warcraft to turn to if its a hard month :P
 
[TW]Fox;18264179 said:
It isnt wasting money if it puts a roof over your head. Interest is 'wasting money' as well?
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Indeed. We have a very skewed view of renting in this country, although it doesn't really help that renting is a bit of a rip off in this country.
 
Yeah £400 a month after food should be plenty. I'm saving for a flat and budgeting on about £500 a month including food (after bills, car, mortgage etc)
 
I've been renting the whole time I've lived in London, over 8 years now.
At one point in a house share, now I have a flat to myself.

I've been in a position to be able to buy a one bed flat for a while now, but it's always been more convenient to rent. Don't see the problem with it myself - I pay someone to give me shelter, to fix the property when things go wrong and to give me the flexibility to up sticks and go somewhere else with a months notice.

I'm probably looking at buying somewhere this year, but certainly don't feel I'd have been better off buying somewhere when I was first able to.
 
I was in this exact situation recently.

Have lived alone for the past 3 months or so paying everything myself and just about getting by. A mate is moving in soon so it will be much easier to cope and the company will certainly be welcome as it can get lonely sometimes.

If you don't mind moving back in with the parents if that's an option I would do that, I however didn't want to move back "home" so I'm scraping by on my own atm.
 
I think single people have the highest costs imo. a 25% discount on council tax is all we get. The only other trick, if i can call it that, is to not buy loads of fresh food because you will never eat it and then you waste. But that might not be the type of thing that you are talking about.

I could save £300 a month if i moved out of my one bed and shared with strangers. But id rather pay the extra £300.
 
i would genuinely look to haggle a bit on the rent - the landlord is gonna go through a lot of trouble finding tenants who may not be as good as you - worth the £50 a month discount you ask for, which is a fair saving for you, too.
 
Freefaller said:
If it works for you then I don't see the issue. :) I don't understand the "need" for buying property in this country - but I do understand the pros and cons, but I just don't really care enough about it to want to put my life on hold for buying property.
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Yeah, works for me just fine.

Tbh I should just lodge at a friends or something, I pay all my bills, council tax etc for the house yet I work away from Tuesday To Saturday....

I suppose I keep the place purely so I have somewhere for my daughter to come & stay at weekends, were it not for that, I'd be a *****! :o
 
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