How much money do you spend per week on average??

ebixa82

Just trying to get a picture of what people spend and how things have changed in the last couple of years. Not including once offs like clothes, festivals, flight etc. (should you be lucky enough to afford them!)

Obviously there will be a considerable difference between those in work and those seeking work...also between those living in Dublin City and those living in smaller towns etc.

I've been keeping an eye on mine of late and it's roughly
(living in Dublin, no kids, no car):

1) Rent: 120e (paid monthly)
2) Mortgage: 30e (not fully covered by tenants)
2) Food/Toiletries: 60e
3) UPC: 5e (paid bi-monthly)
4) ESB: 10e (paid bi-monthly, only 4-5e in summer)
5) Phone: 20e (paid monthly)
6) Socialising: 80e
Total: 325e

Fart

Rent: £60 (per week)
Bills: Internet £1.25 per week (other bills included in rent)
Food: £20
Fast Food: £15
Poker: £30
Few Pints £10

Eh... around £150 max.

Budget for a month is around £650, so I've got enough to spare.

*Praises the student grant*

Chaotic_Forces

Roughly 185 euro.

chicken fingers

peasants

wonderfulname

Rent: 80 (paid monthly)
Food: 30
Mobile: 5 (monthly)
Internet: 3 (monthly)
ESB: 15 (bi monthly)
Cigarettes: 25.50
Socialising/Random purchases: 20

178.50 total

I'm another student living in Dublin city, really need to quit smoking. Thats 3 budgeting a social life anyway, maybe were not all that badly off!

Fart

wonderfulname wrote: »

Rent: 80 (paid monthly)
Food: 30
Mobile: 5 (monthly)
Internet: 3 (monthly)
ESB: 15 (bi monthly)
Cigarettes: 25.50
Socialising/Random purchases: 20

178.50 total

I'm another student living in Dublin city, really need to quit smoking. Thats 3 budgeting a social life anyway, maybe were not all that badly off!

Students couldn't have it better today. Well, most anyways from what I've seen.

tman

Food... **** knows, I tend to do daily shops due to there being a Sainsburys next door to work. At a guess I'd say around £60
Rent + council tax - too damn much! (around £150 I guess)
Internet and phone - £2.50ish (£20pm /2)
Electricity £6.25ish (£50 per month estimated /2)
I don't really budget for "entertainment", it can be anywhere between £0 and £200 really
Phone £5 (£20pm for 700 minutes, 700 messages and unlimited BIS) I Can't believe someone here is paying €20pw!
Transport - £26ish (£106 for a monthly travelcard)

RichieC

rent: 80
various house ****: 80
Coke: 350
hookers: 3000
Drink: whatever's left.

Will I Amnt

RichieC wrote: »

rent: 80
various house ****: 80
Coke: 350
hookers: 3000
Drink: whatever's left.

Man you've got your priorities wrong,go for the good coke and the cheap hookers,never the other way round,tut tut tut,rookie mistake

RichieC

cambo2008 wrote: »

Man you've got your priorities wrong,go for the good coke and the cheap hookers,never the other way round,tut tut tut,rookie mistake

na'h they are cheap hookers, just loads of the bastards.

neil_hosey

rent: 102 quid
phone: 15
bills: 40
food: 100
beer: 150 (food and beer 2 nights out a week about)
car and petrol: 50

gosuckonalemon

tman wrote: »

Food... **** knows, I tend to do daily shops due to there being a Sainsburys next door to work. At a guess I'd say around £60
Rent + council tax - too damn much! (around £150 I guess)
Internet and phone - £2.50ish (£20pm /2)
Electricity £6.25ish (£50 per month estimated /2)
I don't really budget for "entertainment", it can be anywhere between £0 and £200 really
Phone £5 (£20pm for 700 minutes, 700 messages and unlimited BIS) I Can't believe someone here is paying €20pw!

One area where we are still being raped in Ireland.

I'm paying 72e a month (inc. 12e insurance) for 350 mins, 2GB BIS and unlimited texts!

Akrasia

Here's what I spend each week.
Live with my fiance and 1 2 year old child (with a baby due any day now)

Here's what I pay each week, the missus pays towards rent and her own expenses but she is on a very low paid job and now on maternity leave

rent = €65
transport to and from work = €70 (at least)
food + groceries - €150
ESB €14
mobile phone €5
internet + home phone = €14 (eircon rip off bastards)
Car insurance = €10
home heating oil = €15 (averaged over the year)
bin charges = €7
5 a side soccer = €5

total = €355

my weekly income after tax = €365

But hey, government, go ahead and impose a water tax and increase that income levy...

Sykk

Coke 100
Hookers 50

fakearms123

Per week:
Rent €0 - I live at home with the folks aged 23, life of a graduate
Car €30 - Petrol and general maintenance
Lunch €30 - on my break from work i spend about €6 on lunch
Socialising €60 - cinema, drinks, general stuff
Indoor football - €10
Gym - €10

Im looking at around €110 each week and im trying to save for travelling in 2 months

TerrorFirmer

Probably about 300 a week. Seems to be about average.

Fart

TerrorFirmer wrote: »

Probably about 300 a week. Seems to be about average.

I remember before I went to study I used to get e300+ a week and would blow all that on coke and hookers going out on a Friday and Saturday.

I wish I saved it :mad:

dulpit

I have decided not to think about it, because surely it'll be too much

gosuckonalemon

RichieC wrote: »

rent: 80
various house ****: 80
Coke: 350
hookers: 3000
Drink: whatever's left.

Sykk wrote: »

Coke 100
Hookers 50

Still can't decide which post is funnier/more original :rolleyes:

jackiebaron

FCUKING HELL!!!!

Is everybody a student living in a shoebox?

Me:

Mortgage per week 450
Maintenance: 70
Second rent 125
transport 80
lunch, fags, beer 200
Phone 15

Guts of 1000. No wonder I'm fcuking always smashed broke. Where the hell do you get a place to live for 60 euros a week??????????

summerskin

we're a family of 4 with my wife at home with the kids

rent €140
petrol/diesel €140
ESB €25
car tax and insurance €60
broadband and landline €15
Sky TV €18
food €150
childcare(3 mornings per week) €30
mobile phone €13 (mine is a freebie from work so only pay for the wife's contract)
contact lenses €12

total €603 per week and my pay is about €650 per week after tax. Room to make cutbacks if we ever need to, but as it is we rarely socialise(go out once every three months) and spend what's left taking the kids on days out and such.

RichieC

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

Still can't decide which post is funnier/more original :rolleyes:

Well mine was first.

gosuckonalemon

RichieC wrote: »

Well mine was first.

Ya but you lose marks because you don't know how to spell Baghdad.

RichieC

gosuckonalemon wrote: »

Ya but you lose marks because you don't know how to spell Baghdad.

O'rly?

Daisy M

summerskin wrote: »

we're a family of 4 with my wife at home with the kids

contact lenses €12

.

If you use daily disposable lenses you are paying waaay too much have a look at www.daysoftcontactlenses.com way better value approx 12e for 1 months supply. Excellent value and I have found these to be the most comfortable lenses I have ever used.

summerskin

is mise astra wrote: »

If you use daily disposable lenses you are paying waaay too much have a look at www.daysoftcontactlenses.com way better value approx 12e for 1 months supply. Excellent value and I have found these to be the most comfortable lenses I have ever used.

nah, monthlies, one set for me, one for the wife and her very complicated prescription.

Ms. Captain M

Per week:

Rent: €110
Car Loan: €30
Online Savings A/c: €10
Phone Credit: €10
UPC: €10
ESB: €15
Internet:€5
Son's Pocket Money: €5
Groceries: €80
Petrol:€30
Childminder: €80
Nights out: €50

Total €435 :eek:

Live with my 10 year old.

Duggy747

Rent: €230 Monthly
Interweb: €13 Monthly (sharing with 3 others)
ESB: €40 Every 2 months
Food: Averaging under €30 a week, it really doesn't take a lot to feed me.
No TV to pay for
Beer: €8 for 8 cans o' Bavaria every Friday
Bits and pieces: Usually €20

Usually in or around €60 a week Not too shabby. I don't go out that much any more and if I do you could throw another €40 on it.

Being a reclusive goblin has it's merits :pac:

TPD

No rent, no car, spending about 30 a week on lunch, 10-20 on bus, 10 on drink and maybe 30 on a bag of grass, but not every week. €60-€90 weekly.

stovelid

Anybody that says three fiddy will be condemned to die roaring in a Lea's Cross for elderly memes.

Kiith

Your rent is €80? €100? €0? €40?

I ****ing hate you all.

Swampy

Has to be well over €500 pw.

pjd435

Mortgage is 1050 a month, on a tracker, fuct when the interest rates go up
I pay 600 per month or 135 per week I have a house mate of pay 450 per month
30 for food per week
5 for upc
5 for esb
10 for Gas
5 for mobile
2 for bins
10 petrol
15 car insurance/Ttax
5 home insurance

So overall 222 euro. I dont have a social life cause Im on a c.e scheme so I can't afford it. Might drink a few can's at the weekend, so add an extra 10 euro. Have a cineworld card which I got as a present so i go to see alot of films.

NTMK

Rent: €50
Bills: €15
Groceries: €50

Total: €115:D

Frynge

€275 paying back all the stupid loans/overdrafts/creditcards(4 of) and €75 for everything else.
in a job where i sometimes get tips which could be anything from €0 to €100 a week, so they are a god send when i get them

flash1080

€30

Oranage2

Rent 35€
frozen pizza 5 * 2€= 10€
bus ticket return 12€
take away = €6.50

so bout 60-70€ a week.

Akrasia

Oranage2 wrote: »

Rent 35€
frozen pizza 5 * 2€= 10€
bus ticket return 12€
take away = €6.50

so bout 60-70€ a week.

You eat nothing but takeaways and frozen pizza?

How much for new teeth when the scurvy kicks in?

Oranage2

Akrasia wrote: »

You eat nothing but takeaways and frozen pizza?

How much for new teeth when the scurvy kicks in?

I rob a load of food of my folks and grand parents too.

WolfForager

Diesel €50
Lunch €20
Socializing €50

Life of a student eh? :P

Sharing with 3 others so obvisouly just giving my share of the bills and rent most of which are paid monthly so I divided them up weekly and averaged variable costs.

1) Rent: 80 (paid monthly)
2) Food/Toiletries: 50e
3) UPC: 2.5e (paid monthly)
4) ESB: 10e (paid bi-monthly)
5) Phone: 10e (paid monthly), 30 euro plan and always go a bit over.
6) Sky: 5.50e (paid monthly)
7) petrol: 30e (Hard one to call most petrol is burned going home for the weekend, costs about 60 euro return but dont go home every weekend)
8) Insurance: 14 euro (paid monthly)
9) Socialising (drink mostly): 100e at least
10) Gambling: hard to put a figure on weekly as up some weeks down others I'm usually around even so I wont count it either way.

Comes to around 300, that's basic though no account taken for clothes (which I don't buy very often but buy expensive ones when I do), car maintenance and various other costs such as medical expenses.

If I make a guess an overall average weekly outlay of about 370 euro I suppose.

Just for comparison purposes with those say living alone the overall of the main bills (monthly) and rent before dividing up between us would be:

Rent: 1300
Esb :90
Sky: 95
UPC: 40
Gas: 90

ValJester

Rent:75 a week.A fair bit but it is a good house in a decent area in Galway
Food:30-35 quid, depending on how often I go out/eat on campus
Drink:10-15
ESB: averages about 5 a week
UPC: Same

Total about 60 a week after rent.

westendgirlie

Mortgage 163.00
Life Insurance 7.00
Build/Contents 4.00
Petrol 60.00
Car Tax 10.00
Car Insurance 6.00
Electricity 20.00
Bins 10.00
Phone/Broadband 23.00
Coal/Oil 10.00
Food 175.00
Loan 10.00
Child College Exp 125.00
Pocket Money 10.00

TOTAL €633.00

I don't even earn that much! No wonder I'm in arrears

garv123

rent: €90 (includes ESB, gas, bins, broadband, tv)
2 week shopping: €30
bus: €22
rolls and fast food €20
bottles of water:€7
loan:€11(not me paying at the mo)
drink/weekend money €30-40
credit.€5, €20 a month (free calls, texts, internet,weekend calls to all networks)

in and around €200 a week for me.

Tech3

€250-300 a week easily.

Azureus

I try to hit about €200 a week including bills and rent but its often higher
€120 Rent
€30-€60 on food depending on the week
€15 bus fares
€30-€60 Drink/weekend money
€5 credit
Add another tenner a week to cover bi-monthly bills..


Garv123-how do you get 2weeks shopping on €30?!

TheScriptFan

Rent: €125
ESB: €20
Food: €50
Health Ins: €16.25
Entertainment: €50
I put €60 cash in my wallet on a Monday for 'sundry' (lunches out etc) and when that is gone, I don't spend anything until the following Monday.
Donations: €50

Total: €371.25

Very lucky that my job includes car, petrol and phone!

Poor Craythur

How much do I spend in a week?

Is it first year business studies class all over again?

*shudders*

ebixa82

Poor Craythur wrote: »

How much do I spend in a week?

Is it first year business studies class all over again?

*shudders*

Were you taught first class business by browsing boards?

garv123

Garv123-how do you get 2weeks shopping on €30?! [/QUOTE]
butchers up the road
student deal for €10 gets you
4 beef burgers
4 chicken burgers (can swap for a pound of sausages.)
pound of mince
3 chicken fillets

2 large jars of uncle bens sauce 2.50 1 jar per week

rice pasta etc cheap enough.
10 slices of nice ham for 3 euro in the shop and a pan of bread 2 euro:D


butcher down the road. 3 chicken fillets with different sauce choices= 3 euro. bags of seasoned baby spuds 1.75
thats 2 dinners for 4.75. double that and its my 4 dinners for the evenings im up here for under a 10er.

so 16 euro has me enough meet to last me 12 meals nice fresh stuff too. local butchers here are cheaper and nicer than the crap in tesco or dunnes

hblock21

Rent € 0
Bills € 0
Food € 0
Food (lunch) € 15
Phone € 8
Car € 45
Social € 10
Travel / Social € 65 (average - to girlfriend abroad visa versa)
General € 5

Total € 148