What do you live on week by week????

llh189

OMG looking at everyone elses weekly spends my £200 per month seems really low, I wonder if I will ever manage it.

Hoopylass

Imelda wrote:

I give myself an allowance of £40 per week, that is for all socialising, clothes, magazines, lunches (I mostly bring my own from home anyway), incidentals such as work collections, birthday cards, stamps etc. I then have a £40 per month "misc" allowance for things like, haircut, dentist, dry cleaning, shoe repairs, watch batteries. I keep a spending diary for both so that I don't go over. My food shopping is £70 per month (just me), any alcohol gets taken out of my "me" money as it is not an essential (well sometimes it is!)
now I see myself as another "bill" and pay myself a set amount per month.

This is such a great idea, im gonna try this next month!

vics_1982

Hello,

I allow myself £80.00 per week, This is after everything has been paid and £200 surplus paid off cc's, I am to buy Food for week (25.00 two adults) and £40.00 fuel, and the remaining £15 is for me, i either spend it or if not i then put this towards my debts.
I am also suprised as i thought this would be really hard but i am having such a challange with myself that if i don't have £10 left over i feel really bad.

wigginsmum

We allow £30/week for food for two, and £10 each/week pocket money.

Debbiem

My monthly shopping budget is £100 for me and my DD and our expenses money ( bits and pieces, papers & Magazines or treats ) is £25 per month

cupid_s

Please could someone help me here.
Could someone who spends 25-30 pounds per week on their grocery shopping at some point give me a quick run down of what they get for that cos I don't see that I could manage to feed myself and hubby breakfast lunch and evening meal on that little. But i don't eat THAT much (hubby is a greedy pig though and is thin as well) and people here manage so it must be doable.
I know this is somewhere where i really should be able to cut down quite a bit. We spend at least £50 each week. A few weeks ago we spent £71 in tesco and spend £48 in asda three days later.
So any help would be really great