After all bills and rent

[mumandco]

We have roughly £800 a month we spend £50 a week on shopping £30 a week on petrol ad £20 for bits. The other £400 disappears so easy at the moment it's going on Christmas and baby stuff so we don't have much extra to treat ourselves (oh and I)

 

[maryp0ppins]

Nothing really as we are saving to buy our own place next year.

I read in the metro today that the average uk household has £300 left each month after bills

 

[emsiee]

We spend between 120-150 per week on food alone...

 

[karlilay]

Basic money is £300 for everything after rent, we normally have £100 bills a week, then £100 for food,nappies, etc, then we have £100 left over for us. OH only puts £20 in his car a week, as he's just passed his test and has a little run around.

So I'd say roughly £800 but £400 of that is spending money, as a load of it goes on food.

 

[oneKnight]

How much does everyone have left in a month to live on?

For petrol, food etc?

Xx

The bills get "shuffled" in such a way that the food/gas/detergent etc. (we collectively term it the "consumables budget") always gets bought. We can scrape by on $80ish, but prefer to have closer to $150, for every two weeks, or average $250/month.
We pay rent and buy food, regardless of whether the other bills get paid. Creditors will pound sand before we get hungry. So saying what is "left over" for consumables really isn't correct.

It would be nice to have about $50 more every two weeks....and it should happen next month when a debt gets paid off that's one less bill! Yay!

If you are talking about "walkin around money" (for extras, going out, convenience or impulse buys, etc) there is none. Even the change jar has been raided a few too many times in recent months.

Such is my life after divorce. But in all other non-financial areas, I'm sooooo much happier, so it's worth it

 

[Toms Mummy]

Goodness this thread is depressing me! ..... We prob have about £200 left but I'm the single earner atm.

We buy from Tesco, and try to buy local veg from markets. I have a consience when I go to tesco, I feel guilty when I look at the meat/eggs etc... I really want to help the improvement of fair trade/ animal welfare etc but can't afford to!..... I have become a veggie due to lack of money to buy the well sourced/local/less fatty meat. Veggie dinners are easier and cheaper to make than meat ones too!

We have to use the car to get me to work and we live in a rural area with limited public transport. All of our excess goes on fuel and food!

We've bought LO 1 xmas pressie this yr, it's a second hand bike which has lots of life left in it!..... We're not buying for each other.

 

[special_kala]

Between 400 and 600 depending on bonus etc

 

[shelx]

About £500 usually.. but coming up to christmas only about £300.

 

[mum22ttc#3]

I'm not sure of the exact amount but I would probablly guess at about 800. Out of that though we pay about 350 for petrol, I class this as a bill though as OH has to have this in order to work, he works unsociable hours, which most of the time is at night in a rural location, so is unable to commute any other way. We usually spend about 70-100 on food a week for the 5 of us so after all that we dont have a great deal left.

 

[jellybean83]

Around about £1200 after all the bills are paid,Rent,council tax,Gas,Virgin,Electric,Water and Tv.

 

[gizette]

Oh goodness, much too depressing to answer??

Enough to have a night out, a few leisures and care for our animals. We're comfortable but by no means wealthy.

 

[LJM]

We consider food and petrol as part of our bills.

We don't pay rent (dad brought us a house with some of his retirement money), council tax is £150pm, gas and electrcity £150pm, TV/internet/landline £100pm, groceries about £400pm, cleaning and household supplies about £50pm

Added: We both spend about £100pm on petrol my car insurance is £100 and DHs is £40.

It depends really on what we do with the kids that month. We both spend about £100 a month on clothes, both need £50 for our personal phones and after clothes and christmas savings its anywhere between another £500-700 to spend for the month.

 

[lau86]

We make good money but it seems to drip through our fingers like water! I'd say about 500

 

[Sarah lo]

Although very depressing its really good to know that there's LOADS of other people in the same position as me!
We have about £250 left after bills and we're really struggling

DH and I are on pretty good wages and pre-LO we were pretty comfortable but her nursery alone costs us £550 a month and after that's paid, we have £250 left for food and petrol.