Thread for the Uber Frugals..... Complete an SOA and lets see how we compare...

ABUSE

PasturesNew wrote: »

Assets
Cash.................................... loads more than you

Nice a cash rich sugar mummy

ess0two

Get out and enjoy yourself too long dead in this life.

ad9898_3

ess0two wrote: »

Get out and enjoy yourself too long dead in this life.

Although I'm saving quite a lot, the above statement does pass through my mind often.

ess0two

ad9898 wrote: »

Although I'm saving quite a lot, the above statement does pass through my mind often.

Its still possible to save and get out once in a while,stops things becoming stale etc.

BettiePage

mitchaa wrote: »

mbga9pgf...Are you not in the military?

If so, you are in for a big shock once you get out into the real world You will at some point in the future be forced to leave the military. Paying £200pm keep to the military for your quarters/food/council tax will increase considerably. (I'm sure you realise this hence your savings)

I figured they're in the military too. I think they pay their food seperately though according to their soa. We do anyway. We do pay council tax, it comes straight out of your wages and we pay the national average. Rent also comes straight out, we pay the equivalent to a council house.

sportbeth

Thank god the majority agrees on this. I love moneysaving but i also love earning money and spending it. There is a sane balance that lets you enjoy life and still behave financially responsibly for the future.

If I die sitting on a pile of cash I will not be happy. My nan said to me on her deathbed "I've spent all of it and loved it" my other gran now lives with the heating off so that she can pass on an inheritance to her grandchildren despite our protests.

I know which one I'd rather be. If I put away £250 a month for savings after paying the mortgage and bills and having two holidays a year I'm grateful for the life that I enjoy

wageslave

annual income...................... twenty pounds
annual expenditure............... nineteen nineteen and six
total assets........................... happiness

PasturesNew

sportbeth wrote: »

If I put away £250 a month for savings after paying the mortgage and bills and having two holidays a year I'm grateful for the life that I enjoy

I've never had that much left over after the house/bills.

I think that's the difference. People say about enjoying money, but perhaps they don't realise that some people just don't have the spare to start with. They assume they're over-spending on tat, which isn't always the case.

wageslave

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've never had that much left over after the house/bills.

I think that's the difference. People say about enjoying money, but perhaps they don't realise that some people just don't have the spare to start with. They assume they're over-spending on tat, which isn't always the case.

We are always going to be fiscally worse off than the two incomes, one household lot but given the misery of most marriages we gain in other, more important, ways:j

tomstickland

We've all taken a 20% pay cut where I work.
My monthly cost to exist is about £1000 (mortgage, service charge, bills, petrol, food, electricity, water).