How much do your wallets bleed in expenses?

Heliosvector

just triing to get an average of what living costs are there regarding food ect (excluding rental) I know many live differently but how much on average say per week?

Fast_Mover

Hmm...well my rent is paid for, food bought and brought from home..so basically whatever I spend on my social life with friends. Nights out(money for drink before heading out, drink for when out, club entry, taxi's) cinema..

cooperguy

Rent €80/week, food in college ~€25, Rest of food brought from home, going out varies hugely from week to week from €15 to over €100 (It has been a long time since I spent that much). Probably other things im not thinking of now but thats close to everything I think.

kaimera

Back in my day rent was €60/week for a double bed/ensuite room.

Then broadband/6, sky/6, bins/6, esb/6, oil/6. Worked out pretty good most of the time

rmacm

I got by on Eur60/week in 1st year. Then I started smoking which tended to screw up finances considerably but I'd say you could still get by on about 70/80 a week depending on how extravagant you are and how much you go out.

PeakOutput

costs me around a 110 a week

broken down to 30euro groceries(wud be more but we get alot of free/cheap meat from house mates dad who is a butcher)

2 nights out = 50quid

credit(not every week) = 20

laundrette = 10

skydiving when i can = 36 a jump

Nutty

food in college 25
beer - god knows
groceries - approx 30 as rob from hoem when there
rent - pd

spending pretty much a 100 a week more if i go out more than once or head out sober..

Heliosvector

wow that amount of money will add up to quite a bit....... oh well.

GUESS MY PARENTS WILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH IT LOL!!!LOL!!!!

cooperguy

Can I ask how much u expected to pay? How far out is it?

Heliosvector

well i would prefer to spend very little, but im pretty much off junk food ever since my parents banished them to me at the age of 2,.... so i would say about ...............mmmm 80 a week? i can be very loose on my money though so most likely ill br spending 130ish

Heliosvector

wait no thats a lie i love junk food...... so i really have no clue as to how much

cooperguy

What do u classify as junk food? Would that include ordering pizza/chinese cause trust me ull be doin that when ur too lazy to cook:D

cson

Oh yeah. Despite the rip off prices of Godfathers, the free delivery wins me over every time. I mean for sheer laziness you can't have it any other way.

Heliosvector

for lazy times i just use craft diner. I dont know if you know about it. Its an american/canadian thing. Just boil noodles, add sauce and you get a perfect, artificial filled dinner in 15 mins.:)

Mossin

cson wrote: »

Oh yeah. Despite the rip off prices of Godfathers, the free delivery wins me over every time. I mean for sheer laziness you can't have it any other way.

Godfathers???!! NO WAY!

Apache (Celtic Meal Deal) or Cedar House (Family Deal or the Mediterranean Deal). These are the best value pizza places, and they offer free delivery too!!:D

As for how much you'd spend a week..I doubt that I've ever gotten away with less than €80 a week, exclusive of rent! [It's because I'm quite an alcoholic]

Fast_Mover

cooperguy wrote: »

What do u classify as junk food? Would that include ordering pizza/chinese cause trust me ull be doin that when ur too lazy to cook:D

I can honestly say I can count on one hand the number of times I had to order take out in the 2 and a half years i'v been in college.
It's all about choice..

Heliosvector

Fast_Mover wrote: »

I can honestly say I can count on one hand the number of times I had to order take out in the 2 and a half years i'v been in college.
It's all about choice..

Woot! three cheers for nutrition!:D and spending hours making orange juice everyone hates because its not packed with sugar!:p

cson

Fast_Mover wrote: »

I can honestly say I can count on one hand the number of times I had to order take out in the 2 and a half years i'v been in college.
It's all about choice..

Ya big fooking freak :eek:

Heliosvector

dont take me too seriously. Tropicanas good enough, mixed with vodka, sprite and maybe some bayleys...... wait no bayleys thats sick.

cson

Mmmm Tropicana smooth.... My only luxuary purchase in College. No other OJ will suffice.

As for mixers, try Vodka and actimel on for size.

And yes, it does curdle :eek:

Fast_Mover

cson wrote: »

Ya big fooking freak :eek:

Perhaps..but not an over sized one atleast!!:D

cson

Hence the name I guess

Fast_Mover

Well I may have keep off the take aways and then like..but alcohol was another story!:D

cson

Fast_Mover wrote: »

Well I may have keep off the take aways and then like..but alcohol was another story!:D

See exactly, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

Fast_Mover

cson wrote: »

See exactly, you might as well be hung for a sheep as a lamb

How very true.

Fine so..the money you save from not buying takeaways can be put towards alcohol/nights out which is much more important!

cson

I'd much rather clog up my arteries with Superdines finest cuisine than give that demon Lodge any of my money.

bluedolphin

cson wrote: »

I'd much rather clog up my arteries with Superdines finest cuisine than give that demon Lodge any of my money.

It can be avoided; it's a matter of carefully calculating your arrival so as to always be before paying time, and also, if you wish to be inebriate, to consume adequate amounts prior to le Lodge. :rolleyes:

cson

bluedolphin wrote: »

It can be avoided; it's a matter of carefully calculating your arrival so as to always be before paying time, and also, if you wish to be inebriate, to consume adequate amounts prior to le Lodge. :rolleyes:

Give me some credit, I've been here 4 months.

Get in before 11:30 ('Cept Thursday) and its free.

Loike Duh Dude

Peteee

bluedolphin wrote: »

It can be avoided; it's a matter of carefully calculating your arrival so as to always be before paying time, and also, if you wish to be inebriate, to consume adequate amounts prior to le Lodge. :rolleyes:

Of course no one wants to leave the pub at 10:45 so you get there before 11:30, and even if you do, theres no one there (And you gotta extortionate prices for beverages there too!)

Bloody lodge, curse it.

cson

Should just rename it "The Mart"

Cos thats what it is! A human cattle mart of sweaty flesh and alcohol. :eek:

rmacm

cson wrote: »

Mmmm Tropicana smooth.... My only luxuary purchase in College. No other OJ will suffice.

As for mixers, try Vodka and actimel on for size.

And yes, it does curdle :eek:

Try snorting vodka off a spoon it's good for you believe me......ask Fast_Mover I believe she's seen me do this (actually so has Peteee and kaimera and probably Mossin aswell)

ninty9er

mmm..........




*me remembers the time I drank vodka with Calpol*

was good actually, neede more Calpol to be right but I had no hangover:D:D

PeakOutput

lads i dont know what you mean by buy drinks in the lodge or anywhere down here for that matter last night was the first night id bought a drink in a cub since iv been down here and that was just coz it was my birthday

you dont get searched going in anywere i bring a naggan or a shoulder out with me every night im out dont spend more than 20quid on a night out(50last night)

PeakOutput

rmacm wrote: »

Try snorting vodka off a spoon

ah jesus be a man and do eyeball shots ffs

bluedolphin

rmacm wrote: »

Try snorting vodka off a spoon

Ouch.

PeakOutput wrote: »

ah jesus be a man and do eyeball shots ffs

Ouch X2

I don't think that the Russians/Poles didn't invent vodka to be absorbed any other way than via the alimentary canal!

rmacm

PeakOutput wrote: »

ah jesus be a man and do eyeball shots ffs

I have done granted I was ****faced at the time and my eye wasn't best pleased with me the next day.

bluedolphin wrote: »

Ouch.



Ouch X2

I don't think that the Russians/Poles didn't invent vodka to be absorbed any other way than via the alimentary canal!

The snorting isn't that painful at all.

bluedolphin

rmacm wrote: »

The snorting isn't that painful at all.

Isn't that painful?! :rolleyes:

cson

My wallet bled today.

Serano's has some of csons hard earned now

Fast_Mover

rmacm wrote: »

Try snorting vodka off a spoon it's good for you believe me......ask Fast_Mover I believe she's seen me do this (actually so has Peteee and kaimera and probably Mossin aswell)

Oh ya remember that!!:D
Then ye trying to get me to do it then..pffft, as if!!!:eek:

Nutty

payin for the lodge naaa... using a cloakroom in lodge naa only ever lost one coat there...

as for the paying.. ladies nite on sunday and free for fourth years tuesdays so its all good

nagons the only way to go...

you have to be careful in lodge though i have been searched the odd time there in sayin that very few times in my four years