Sharing home expenses

getmore4less

Marvel1 wrote: »

You are not happy your paying more % wise, but it's your house not ours (his).

£500 Is an awful lot for bills alone.

It £1000 they put in £500 each.

Marvel1

getmore4less wrote: »

It £1000 they put in £500 each.

That's what I mean, £1000 to cover electric, gas, water, council tax, phone/broadband is very expensive, even £500 alone.

ska_lover

Marvel1 wrote: »

That's what I mean, £1000 to cover electric, gas, water, council tax, phone/broadband is very expensive, even £500 alone.

It really is

£1000 really does seem like a lot considering there is no mortgage or rent to be paid - but it depends what services they are paying for, and if they shop in marks and sparks food hall hahah

Our entire household bills, are just £1000 a month, inc mortgage , but there are only the two of us to feed here

OP might have half a dozen people to feed for all I know

LilElvis

Marvel1 wrote: »

That's what I mean, £1000 to cover electric, gas, water, council tax, phone/broadband is very expensive, even £500 alone.

OP says it's to cover housekeeping and bills, which I would say therefore includes food. As a family of three we easily spend more than £1,000 a month on utilities and food - council tax is £300 and gas and electric £250, so that's half the money gone already!

ska_lover

LilElvis wrote: »

OP says it's to cover housekeeping and bills, which I would say therefore includes food. As a family of three we easily spend more than £1,000 a month on utilities and food - council tax is £300 and gas and electric £250, so that's half the money gone already!

£250 for energy per month for a family of three? wow

That would do us for nearly three months - but we are out most of the day

and your council tax bill is three times what ours is

It is all relative though isn't it. I mean specific to circumstances, where we chose to live / shop / how much we chose to have the heating on etc

Sayschezza

My OH and I have lived together for over 30years in a house I already owned outright before I met him. We are both retired with occupational pensions as well as OAPs. He has never wanted to have anything to do with the running of our home or to buy somewhere between us. He gives me £150 per week and that together with my pensions covers all household bills, maintenance, new household items, garden bits, food, days out and holidays. He has more than this in disposable income but which covers car bits (old banger, he won't buy a new one and will stop driving when it conks out) and food and drink when we are out or on holiday. I have left him a life interest in the home if I die first, it will then go to my children. Works for us.

kangoora

LilElvis wrote: »

OP says it's to cover housekeeping and bills, which I would say therefore includes food. As a family of three we easily spend more than £1,000 a month on utilities and food - council tax is £300 and gas and electric £250, so that's half the money gone already!

I second the Wow!

I've got a 4 bedroomed house in the North of England (200m above sea level) and our combined gas/electric has just gone up to £125/month (was £108 on last fixed rate).

Have you checked a comparison website for utility costs?

Or do you keep your house at a sub-tropical temperature?

Exodi

LilElvis wrote: »

Marvel1 wrote:

That's what I mean, £1000 to cover electric, gas, water, council tax, phone/broadband is very expensive, even £500 alone.

OP says it's to cover housekeeping and bills, which I would say therefore includes food. As a family of three we easily spend more than £1,000 a month on utilities and food - council tax is £300 and gas and electric £250, so that's half the money gone already!

Yeah, as others have said, I also question your figures. £300 a month council tax? That's double mine and I live in Kent. £250 for gas and electric PER MONTH - I spend less than a third of that per month in a house of 3, that's absolutely astronomical. Unless you're living in and powering a shopping mall then I think you have stretched your figures or are plainly getting ripped off. £100 a week on food seems exorbitant but maybe you have cash to blow?

Me thinks the likely scenario is that the OP is charging 'rent' as part of the £500 share of the bills.