2.5 Million Families on £100k/year Don't Feel Rich

lostinrates

Pete111 wrote: »

£5 is not that much to get a decent reasonably healthy takeway bite to eat in London...

I agree, but it depends where you are, and what else your day demands..if you have a ''lunch break'' you have a huge realm of choice, both of what you eat and how much you pay for it. If you have five minutes to grab a bite between tasks then....you pay what the nearest eatery charges.

Pete111

lostinrates wrote: »

I agree, but it depends where you are, and what else your day demands..if you have a ''lunch break'' you have a huge realm of choice, both of what you eat and how much you pay for it. If you have five minutes to grab a bite between tasks then....you pay what the nearest eatery charges.

And if that eatery is Pret then a fiver just about gets you a sarnie, a drink and a bag of organic lentil and hedghog flavour crisps...

or a decent sized tray of Sushi. Yum.

silvercar

I guess if your workmates knew you earned £100k, they would think it a bit odd if you refused to join them in pret/ the office canteen/ the pub and instead sat at your desk with a squashed banana, a tupperware box containing a soggy lettuce sandwich and a can of tesco value cola.

kabayiri

Pete111 wrote: »

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or a decent sized tray of Sushi. Yum.

In Manchester it's a Gregg's sausage and bean pastie. Change left from a quid.

No wonder you need a 100K salary and a 100K bonus...:)

Pete111

kabayiri wrote: »

In Manchester it's a Gregg's sausage and bean pastie. Change left from a quid.

No wonder you need a 100K salary and a 100K bonus...:)

Chances of me getting 200k in Total Rem this year? About the same as my chances of living past 40 on a diet consisting predominately of Sausage and Bean Pasties from Greggs...

mitchaa

Former_Spice wrote: »

How do you get £10 per day for 2 on lunch? 50p a person is more than enough, £5+ is eating out, clearly a luxury.

You can't even buy a mars bar for 50p

Not that i eat mars bars for my dinner mind you, but £5 a day for lunch is the norm for me. A filled baguette, a can of coke, a packet of crisps and an apple costs about that. Some days ill have a big mac meal, other days i'll have a pasta salad, some days ill have nothing but I cant imagine 50p buying you a lot:rotfl:

mitchaa

Quizzical_Squirrel wrote: »

Almost everyone I know earns over 100K.

Perhaps a bit of an exaggeration there, I doubt that very highly.

abaxas

In terms of lunch, for £5 a day you could eat like a king, providing you made it yourself.

For me, I cant understand why people buy their lunch. It's mostly crap, so why not make it youself for 1/3 of the cost, have something better and healthier.

The answer is, people cant be bothered.

lieutenant_dan

silvercar wrote: »

I guess if your workmates knew you earned £100k, they would think it a bit odd if you refused to join them in pret/ the office canteen/ the pub and instead sat at your desk with a squashed banana, a tupperware box containing a soggy lettuce sandwich and a can of tesco value cola.

Yep, soggy homemade sandwiches can be a reminder of how little money you have if you have no choice but to bring your own lunch in. For me it used to be stuff like corned beef and that chicken roll thing, no matter what the sandwiches always ended up sweaty by lunchtime!

Interesting area of discussion though as you can in theory for one person spend £5 per week on home made lunches.
On the other side of the coin, have met many people not on that much money who spent similar amounts on lunch as the OP. If you don't have much disposeable income, spending £100 per month on lunches/coffees etc is ridiculous, less so if you earn £100k per annum, but if they feel they don't have much left over each month, a bit of resourcefulness in areas like that could make a difference (especially if that same initiative is used in other areas too, the saving would still be under £100 which is small in relation to their overall salary of £100k)

And I've worked with people who've had as much as tens of thousands stashed away yet still bring in boring home made sandwiches, also the last to put in for the tea and biscuit rounds, I guess that's why they have all that money stashed away in the first place.....

LilacPixie

Homemade lunches don't have to be sandwiches. We have a micro in our office so I usually take in something to heat up. Baked tattie with left over chili from night before, soup, basically whatever I fancy.

I think no matter the salary most seem to live to their means. I/we earn no where near 100k but do ok. I wish it was more but we survive. I have been half heartedly trying to expand my 2nd income but its not happening. I lack the sales/promotional skills and the time to develop them.