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How little do you think it's possible to survive on per week, in Ireland?

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  • 17-07-2012 3:21pm
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    Ms. Pingui
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    How much money do you think a person/ couple/ family needs to survive from week to week in this country?

    Just for an example, a couple with one child, including rent, food, the usual bills etc.

    What things do you consider to be luxuries? What do you think people with little money should have to do without?


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    FatherLen
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    bout 3 fiddy


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    coffee_cake
    Moderators, Category Moderators, Politics Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 81,310 CMod ✭✭✭✭coffee_cake


    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    How much money do you think a person/ couple/ family needs to survive from week to week in this country?

    Just for an example, a couple with one child, including rent, food, the usual bills etc.

    What things do you consider to be luxuries? What do you think people with little money should have to do without?

    they shouldn't have to do without anything in particular - it's their money, their budget


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    [Deleted User]
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    bills and rent would be difficult to calculate in but during college i survived for about 3 weeks on cereal, milk and vitamin tablets. Cost me about €30.
    Desperate times! i struggle to eat weetabix to this day.


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    El Weirdo
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    I wonder which direction this thread is going...


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    Valetta
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    Another public service bashing thread.

    Gets boring.


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    AnonoBoy
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    According to the my sources* you can afford a car, a mansion and gold teeth on just 188 euro a week.











    *AH trolls


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    PucaMama
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    Deleted User wrote: »
    bills and rent would be difficult to calculate in but during college i survived for about 3 weeks on cereal, milk and vitamin tablets. Cost me about €30.
    Desperate times! i struggle to eat weetabix to this day.

    a person would have to eat the right food to help absorb those vitamins.


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    Hardonraging
    Registered Users Posts: 2,641 ✭✭✭Hardonraging


    Hunger strike

    /thread


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    WumBuster
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    I reckon about 200 euro a week minimum for the average single person without dependents. But of course that can vary. My rent is 70 spend about 50 on food between bills, running the car and other bits n bobs make up the rest.

    if you are surviving on any less you living bellow the poverty line


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    djk1000
    Closed Accounts Posts: 899 ✭✭✭djk1000


    FatherLen wrote: »
    bout 3 fiddy

    Consider this an anti thank. 3 fiddy is up there with your ma and piss blasting at this stage.


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    Ms. Pingui
    Registered Users Posts: 581 ✭✭✭Ms. Pingui


    No, I'm just genuinely interested. I'm going through a major change in circumstances at the moment so it's quite relevant to me. :)


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    biko
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    Ms. Pingui wrote: »
    How much money do you think a person/ couple/ family needs to survive from week to week in this country?
    Where in this great nation of ours are you referring to?
    It will be significantly less in Tubber than Dublin town.


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    In galway i was living when i first moved down with 4 other people.

    No job, Dole was a nightmare to get sorted

    the bills being split wasm't to bad. No sky either but no internet either.

    Rent was 50 a week and i lived on tesco value noodles for about 5 weeks. 13c a packet (although reduced to 12c a few weeks later) so that worked out at 39c a day. throw in a carton of milk (or rob one from outside a restaurant) for another 60c plus bills (20 a month) and it was around 60 quid a week.

    granted the house i was in was decent enough so i could have got cheaper (and would have had to had i not got a job!

    so long story short i'd say if you have no kids and are house sharing then 50 quid a week should sort ya out


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    FatherLen
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    djk1000 wrote: »
    Consider this an anti thank. 3 fiddy is up there with your ma and piss blasting at this stage.


    oh no! not an anti thank! whatever will i do?!?!


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    crazy cabbage
    Registered Users Posts: 738 ✭✭✭crazy cabbage


    how little?

    nothing. You will last as long as it takes from them to kick you out of the appartment


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    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    Simple calculations:

    Rent: 2-bed apartment in Inchicore; €700/month, €162/week.

    Leccy, Heat & Light: Roughly €2,400/year, €50/week.

    Food: €50 per person, per week.

    Transport: Unlimited travel on Dublin Bus: €20/week per adult. €8.60 for the child.

    Clothing: €25 per person per week.

    Mobile Phone: €10 credit per week x 2

    TV & Broadband & TV licence: €19/week

    Total Cost: €524.60 per week

    And that's living a pretty good life; unlimited travel, nice apartment, plenty of entertainment, mobile phones, new clothes.


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    danniemcq
    Registered Users Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭danniemcq


    seamus wrote: »
    Simple calculations:

    Rent: 2-bed apartment in Inchicore; €700/month, €162/week.

    Leccy, Heat & Light: Roughly €2,400/year, €50/week.

    Food: €50 per person, per week.

    Transport: Unlimited travel on Dublin Bus: €20/week per adult. €8.60 for the child.

    Clothing: €25 per person per week.

    could probably cut down on that

    Mobile Phone: €10 credit per week x 2

    go with the 20 quid a month for free texts/calls/data (3 is the best value IMHO then meteor and o2)

    TV & Broadband & TV licence: €19/week

    no need for tv licence if worried just upgrade your broadband and use proxies etc to get iplayer, rte player, 4od and other non legal sources

    Total Cost: €524.60 per week

    And that's living a pretty good life; unlimited travel, nice apartment, plenty of entertainment, mobile phones, new clothes.

    saved a fair bit of that, not much but some! sown to about 470 or 480 especially more if you can cut the clothing.


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    Chuck Stone
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    djk1000 wrote: »
    Consider this an anti thank. 3 fiddy is up there with your ma and piss blasting at this stage.

    Tell Joe how that makes you feel...


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    davet82
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,753 ✭✭✭davet82


    very little imo...

    get creative OP...


    e.g instead of money for rent, try giving your landlord 3 handjobs aweek... it works for me :cool:


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    Stiffler2
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    Exactly €190 OP


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    I_smell_fear
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    Single male in Galway here on the Le Dole. E50 rent weekly and split bills between 4 of us, except I happen get free UPC tv and internet because one of them pays it on his own for some reason. I can easily feed myself for E20-35 weekly (depending on which week I buy most food stuffs) and thats eating good food, fruit daily etc. Plus, I'm getting free use of a gym via less than admirable ways! Galway is pretty handy in that you can get anywhere in the city on a bike.

    My situation is pretty handy...no job though :/


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    Brokentime
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    I_smell_fear wrote: »
    Single male in Galway here on the Le Dole. E50 rent weekly and split bills between 4 of us, except I happen get free UPC tv and internet because one of them pays it on his own for some reason. I can easily feed myself for E20-35 weekly (depending on which week I buy most food stuffs) and thats eating good food, fruit daily etc. Plus, I'm getting free use of a gym via less than admirable ways! Galway is pretty handy in that you can get anywhere in the city on a bike.

    My situation is pretty handy...no job though :/

    My ex-GF is Chinese and she lived in Dublin for a year on a feckin' shoestring. She was holed up in a small apartment with about 4 other girls on .... Capel Street, I think it was (near that place, the Panty Bar). Used to work in a Chinese restaurant on the quays and the wages weren't great, but she got by. Even managed to send some money home. This was back in 2009, so not too long ago, and I think the rent was higher back then than it is now (haven't seen the latest Daft report). She must have done it for about E160-180 per week. Mind you, she did get to eat at the restaurant where she worked, so that's a decent perk. And she walked to work, too, so no transport costs.

    I love this thread; great to read.


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    Pushtrak
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    AnonoBoy wrote: »
    According to the my sources* you can afford a car, a mansion and gold teeth on just 188 euro a week.











    *AH trolls
    No, no. You mean three cars and two mansions. And a holiday every couple of months.


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    SusieBlue
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    Weekly, my OH and I spend €147 on rent for a 2 bed house in Cork. About €40-€50 for food, €20 for electricity. €30 on petrol, and €20 each a month on credit. We spend about €50 a month socialising, or on other bits and bobs. We buy clothes etc when needed, not by the month.

    Weekly, we spend about €250 a week. Monthly, that's €1,070 ish. We were spending a lot more when I was working.


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    TPD
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    seamus wrote: »
    Clothing: €25 per person per week.

    1300 per person per year on clothing, jaysus I'd be hard pressed to spend 25 every two months on clothes.


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    Jester252
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    I say that a person could live on €100 a week


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    christmas2012
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    food: 50 - 65 per person

    rent: 100 euro

    phone credit/bus: 30.

    so you really need that dole money as it goes quick..they shouldnt cut it any further really shouldnt..


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    Biggins
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    FatherLen wrote: »
    oh no! not an anti thank! whatever will i do?!?!

    Wear a condom for protection!


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    CamperMan
    Registered Users Posts: 1,835 ✭✭✭CamperMan


    it was costing myself and my wife over €450 a week to live a basic lifestyle in Ireland, that included rent, bills, food, car, phone, etc.. no luxuries.. :mad:

    In Germany, it's costing us less than €140 a week :D


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    token101
    Registered Users Posts: 3,050 ✭✭✭token101


    I speak from own experience on the dole, but if you're on your own €188 is plenty.


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