How much can you manage on?

[smartie]

Our bills, inc mortgage, come to around £850 per month and we usually give ourselves £100 pw to spend on food, petrol etc but dont always use it all.

We had to cut back recently as OH got made redundant last Sept and I have been on additional mat leave since jan so we have not had much money coming in. Oh started a new job today though so yay!

 

[danni0509]

hi this is our monthly income and expenditure

we spend (this is monthly)

£500 rent (2 bedroom flat)
£96-council tax
£200-shopping
£100-internet/contract mobiles/telephone
£80-electric
£22-t.v licence
£40-water rates
£100-loan repayments
£75-savings account (for holidays/emergencys/etc...)
£20-mobile phone/washing machine/cooker insurances
£60-travel expenses to work for me and the husband
so roughly £1300 per month
we have a combined income of £1600
which leaves us with about £300 per month to do as we like with but at the minute all our spare money is going on doing the flat up as the landlord does fcuk all
i have also started doing ironing for people in my spare time to earn a little bit more money so i can afford to buy a car and renew our wedding vows x x