When I was living in my flat in London, after paying my rent and bills, I had about £60 a week left. £20 of that went on food and about £15 went on travel to uni.
Isn’t it funny how day by day nothing changes but when you look back, everything is different…
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^well played. I'm at the west hampstead one, and I joined when it was 15.99. it's gone up to 19.99 now O_o, but only to new members! Ha. Only coz it's in the city.
Well played there, too heh.
Once the price starts creeping anywhere over £20 the whole budget idea of it is lost I reckon. Does your one play music? Don't think it's mentioned in the FAQ.
Apparently there's no staff 8 PM - 8 AM at my one. I was probably the only person that read that and thought 'oh yay no staff. Run riot' :/
Such an anarchist at heart.
Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
I spend about £10 on food, my phone bill is £30 a month so £7.50 a week, transport is £2 a day so £14 a week so about £31.50 a week if I don't go out. But usually I go out so about £60/70 a week.
when people are trying to convert a monthly bill/budget to a weekly one you can't just divide it by 4 as that gives you an incorrect value, you need to multiply it by 12 and then divide it by 52
this probably doesn't matter but it's irritating me lol
Well played there, too heh.
Once the price starts creeping anywhere over £20 the whole budget idea of it is lost I reckon. Does your one play music? Don't think it's mentioned in the FAQ.
Apparently there's no staff 8 PM - 8 AM at my one. I was probably the only person that read that and thought 'oh yay no staff. Run riot' :/
Such an anarchist at heart.
Id does, yes, but it's not very loud. I tend to take my own music. They also have these bikes that are like 'experience' bikes with a monitor so it seems like you're riding on the road/countryside/with an assistant. I can't actually do the bikes coz of my knees, but I tried it out and it was kinda fun.
Haha, yes, I thought that too! They have CCTV and emergency assistance though :P
when people are trying to convert a monthly bill/budget to a weekly one you can't just divide it by 4 as that gives you an incorrect value, you need to multiply it by 12 and then divide it by 52
this probably doesn't matter but it's irritating me lol
Och it's just a rough estimate though Captain Pedantic :P
Id does, yes, but it's not very loud. I tend to take my own music. They also have these bikes that are like 'experience' bikes with a monitor so it seems like you're riding on the road/countryside/with an assistant. I can't actually do the bikes coz of my knees, but I tried it out and it was kinda fun.
Sounds cool, I'll check them out. Will take music too.
& thanks for mentioning the company in the first place, I'd never have known and it's gonna make quite a bit of difference. Especially as the other one I was going to is in the next town so incurred travel costs too, but this'll be like 15 mins walk.
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They have CCTV and emergency assistance though :P
I wasn't planning on anything that unruly! :P
Stop thinking about what I want, what he wants, what your parents want. What do you want?
How do you all manage to eat for so little? I wish I knew. My food bill this week was £64.00 just for me and I don't think I was extravagant but I do buy a lot of ready meals. Maybe that's why? I would love to get it down. I aim to stick to £50.00 for food. £16 for dog food. £20 for petrol. £6 for art group. £6 for coffee and bun with support worker and £20 for bits and pieces so £130 in all (mortgage, bills etc. on top of that) but it's soooooooo much less than if I was still teaching.
£64 a week?! For one person? Where are you shopping, Harrods?
You need to start bulk preparing and freezing meals. I know Sainsbury's have a website with lots of low cost meal options, but there are all sorts of ideas for budget eating out there. If you do that you will easily be able to half your current cost.
£64 a week is impressive in a way... my mum spends less than that to feed herself, my step-dad and brother.
Ready meals look cheap but really are not... I make literally everything (even bread) from scratch. Which means that most weeks I spend very little on food, but then every 3 or 4 months I spend more as I need to get stuf like flour, yeast, dried beans, etc.
Making more than you need and freezing some of it is a good plan too.
I've budgeted for £25/week food and household stuff like washing powder, lightbulbs etc averaged out over a month.
£6/week bus (meaning I can get the bus twice and have to walk after I've spent that)
£10/week for social stuff - maybe a few drinks and a game of squash with my housemate.
£50/month petrol to get to my bf and back or home and back twice a month.
£15/month phone contract.
£1595/year covering car insurance, tax, MOT, parking permit, some christmas/bday presents (some I buy out of weekly food money), sports club membership, books for uni etc.
I have very little and irregular income this year (self-funding PG degree) so this is budgeted from savings. If I earn extra I try to save some for emergencies and spend some on nice things :)
I comfortably live off JSA a lot of the time.
I'm really lucky in the fact that I live rent-free with my Dad.
Though I do buy my own food a lot and go travelling a fair bit.
Also, I'm pretty confident that if I had to buy all my own food for every meal of every day, I could eat off less than £10 a week.
Bulk shopping once a month and freezing would be the way to go.
At the moment, I just have to buy food whenever it's needed, because my Dad doesn't food shop for our house any more.
Now I'll play your ghost as my ace, whenever I'm led astray.
But I am actually good, can't help it if we're tilted.
I'm in my right place, don't be a downer.
I've actually cut my expenses way down by losing my driver's license. Not paying for gas or insurance is awesome! I'll have to start doing it again next month though. Boo.
Anyway, aside from regular bills, I picked the 30-40 option. That breaks down to about $5 a week for cat food, $15 for snacks when I'm too lazy to make my own breakfast, and $20 for the impulse buys (books, clothes, etc) that are the occupational hazards of working in a thrift store.
Hum my biggest weekly expense is my counsellor which is 45 pounds a week I guess I spend a 150 odd a week excluding rent and transport as I have a freedom pass so dont need to pay for that.
However some weeks I do spend more depending on what I do
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i shop mostly at Asda or Tesco. Guess I'll need to ditch the ready meals and start cooking. It's part of what I'm going to be working on. The CMHT are holdig a soup lunchtime group where we make a different soup each week then eat it along with some bread for lunch. Then you have to make it again during the week and say how you got on the following week. It hasn't started yet but when it does we have to pay £1.50 for the cost of the food. I shall let you all know how it goes.
The reason I ask is because I was doing my budgeting and I worked out roughly that I would spend:
Petrol: £10 a week
Training: £10 a week
Food: £30 a week
and then £10 a week for odds and ends (a coffee, an extra training session or uni supplies
so about 50 - 60
I want to try and get the food bill down, but I eat a lot of fruit and veg (which jacks it up by about £10 a week). Hmmm. I'm also vegiterian so am dependant on buying quorn products (which aren't cheap!) for protien.
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to be honest i think being a vegetarian is cheaper... we eat vegetarian food 4 or 5 days of the week and limit meat to weekends only as it's just cheaper than way.
Though I will abmit quorn can be pricey... I find buying huge bags of quorn mince and then splitting it into single portion boxes before freezing it cuts the cost
these figures seem kinda low. what about things like any clothes, alcohol, cigarettes, any nights out/outings, household things (washing powder, toilet cleaner, cloths, towels etc), books, music, stationary/pens, toiletries (tampax! razors), anything for the home/decorations, vitamins/prescriptions, one off items or to replace something broken. averaged out i think a lot of these things add up.
it's really hard to calculate! i can way more easily calculate bills, because all are direct debit so it's easy to look up.
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