Do you earn enough for a minimum acceptable standard of living?

chewmylegoff

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

A budget of over a grand a year for holidays, and nearly 3 grand for getting trolleyed isn't my idea of essentials. Nice, for sure.

well it is suppose to be to fund an "acceptable standard" of living, rather than bare essentials. presumably most people surveyed considered it wasn't worth getting out of bed in the morning unless they could get trolleyed of a friday and take the family to the algarve once a year.

SingleSue

£3k for alcohol....it's pushing it if I spend a tenner a year!

Can't do the calculator thing, it appears to have crashed under the pressure.

marklv

PasturesNew wrote: »

I just spotted the food bill.... £44/week it says, for ONE person to eat. Blimey - I'd be the size of a planet if I spent that much!!! That's over £6/day every day.

It's not much actually. I spend £10 a day on food - and that's when I don't eat out.
Do you live on Pot Noodle?

marklv

SingleSue wrote: »

£3k for alcohol....it's pushing it if I spend a tenner a year!

Can't do the calculator thing, it appears to have crashed under the pressure.

I spend around £80 a quarter on my Laithwaites wines, and beer and spirits are extra. I think £1k a year on booze is my limit - not including when eating out.

marklv

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

A budget of over a grand a year for holidays, and nearly 3 grand for getting trolleyed isn't my idea of essentials. Nice, for sure.

Basic essentials are one thing, and the avoidance of dying of hunger or exposure is another. We are in a developed Western country, are we not?

marklv

PasturesNew wrote: »

I suspect that calculator assumes stuff like:
- 1 hobby, £25/week
- eat out once a week £20/week
- 3 holibobs: 2 weekend breaks and a summer holiday, £20/week

All stuff that only rich people do.

Hardly! :eek:

marklv

PasturesNew wrote: »

But it's London.

You'd have to look hard to find somewhere that cheap where I live.

Edit: Just looked it up. Cheapest 3-bed £125k. Cheapest 3-bed within 20 road miles £95k.

Certainly cheaper than Berkshire. My 3 bed terraced is worth c.£260k and semis are £300k+ where I live.

flea72

marklv wrote: »

It's not much actually. I spend £10 a day on food - and that's when I don't eat out.
Do you live on Pot Noodle?

£10 a day? what do you eat?

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marklv

beecher2 wrote: »

£44/week on food is just ridiculous - no way I spend anywhere near that.

Not ridiculous at all.

What do you live on? Pot noodle? Tins of Heinz ravioli? :rotfl:

Any fresh meat and fish? Veg, fruit?

beecher2

marklv wrote: »

It's not much actually. I spend £10 a day on food - and that's when I don't eat out.
Do you live on Pot Noodle?

that's an eye watering amount of food to go through. Are you sure you spend that amount just on food?

edit: just saw your comment. I can assure you that you can live on a diet other than pot noodle and ravioli, and still spend a fraction of your £300 a month on food. Are you, how will I say it, a larger than normal person?