How much money do you allocate for yourself each week?

mossstar

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

Dh has £10 as he works full time. Personally I have nothing as I'm a stay at home mum.

IA, I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this post made my heart ache for you (i've just 'finished' four years as a stay at home mum!). Personally, I think you've got the harder job there hun - i found it much MUCH hard being at home with two smallies full-time than I do going to work - i see going to work (i now work 3 days a week) as my time OFF! LOL

I love my kids, and I love being with my kids.... but still, in my apparently not so humble opinion (i've never posted like this before, forgive me!) you should both get 5 quid or BOTH get nothing!!!

*crawls back under rock*

x

dubgirl

We put £20 in the car which I share with OH and then usually £10 a week each - mine has to cover parking and OH needs money for drinks etc at work. We both take packed lunches and things such as birthday presents get budgetted for elsewhere.

earwig

mossstar wrote: »

IA, I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this post made my heart ache for you (i've just 'finished' four years as a stay at home mum!). Personally, I think you've got the harder job there hun - i found it much MUCH hard being at home with two smallies full-time than I do going to work - i see going to work (i now work 3 days a week) as my time OFF! LOL

I love my kids, and I love being with my kids.... but still, in my apparently not so humble opinion (i've never posted like this before, forgive me!) you should both get 5 quid or BOTH get nothing!!!

*crawls back under rock*

x

ia has been told this so many times so dont feel the need to crawl any where most people on here agree with what you said but ia feels she dosnt need any money and i know if ia wanted it ste would give her the whole of the ten pounds but the fact is she dosnt want it

i am a stay at home mum and i take 40-50 per week i have two kids one age 3 one age 8 and they anit cheep to keep what with one thing and another the rest gets spent on papers music ect the way i see it is if i wasnt staying at home to look after our kids then dear hubby would have to so if wouldnt be able to earn the money in the first place its a joint thing when the kids are back at school it drops to around 25/30 the schools just pester for so much money i think i pay out around 8 per week on different school things and thats just for one child

mossstar

Aw, well that's fine then - as long as yer happy IA!! I'll get off your back I just.... you know it's sometimes SO BLOODY hard being at home with two littlies LOL, personally i think we all deserve to be treated.

But respect to all the different choices/opinions! Just as long as you're happy!

x

barnaby-bear

immoral_angeluk wrote: »

Dh has £10 as he works full time. Personally I have nothing as I'm a stay at home mum.

Is that £10 including or excluding the Driving lessons, new PS2, new PS3, console games and big telly suitable for gaming? :rolleyes:

barnaby-bear

earwig wrote: »

ia has been told this so many times so dont feel the need to crawl any where most people on here agree with what you said but ia feels she dosnt need any money and i know if ia wanted it ste would give her the whole of the ten pounds but the fact is she dosnt want it

Pretty true.... when I hear that hair ad. "Because I'm worth it" I think of this lass because she'd say the opposite...

earwig

barnaby-bear wrote: »

Is that £10 including or excluding the Driving lessons, new PS2, new PS3, console games and big telly suitable for gaming? :rolleyes:

you really do have a bee in your bonet over this dont you lol

themaccas

We're starting an allowance from next month as we've cleared so much debt. OH and I are going to have £100 a month each, we've each opened seperate bank accounts for this to be paid into. This money will be used for - clothes, gifts, magazines, anything non-essential, daily spends like coffee/the odd lunch etc, treats for the kids. It won't be used for haircuts (yey!!), clothes that need replacing like shoes or for work or petrol. Hopefully it will work out well and we'll be encouraged to save from month to month to buy stuff we want that we couldn't usually justify buying. If it doesn't work out and we start spending monthly budget money on non-essentials or OH starts nagging for an advance we'll stop it.

JCD_Capulet

I'm about £2.55pw for tobacco and £2 for busfare to visit the bf.

dancingfairy

I'm going to give myself £100 a month on non-essentials - additional clothes/magazines etc and see how I get on. I've just got a job after graduating and want to be able to spend some of the money I earn - the rest will go on paying off the overdraft and student loan and of course bills.