what guaranteed weekly income would make you give up work

dd972

Say you had no mortgage etc, what level of guaranteed for life weekly income would prompt you to give up work, I'd be happy with the shopping covered, a few cans and enough for a night out once/twice a week, maybe a little more to put aside as well, €400pw should do it for me.

joydivision

188 and a guitar .

m5ex9oqjawdg2i

Why so modest?

1k a week should fulfill most of my dreams.

Gee_G

500 a week

Conall Cernach

About 400 would be ok to maintain my current lifestyle but only if it adjusted for inflation. In 30 or 40 years time 400 euro could be a pittance.

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Mr Benevolent

€750 a week would do me very nicely indeed.

seamus

What do mean, "No mortgage, etc". Do I have to pay bills? Cos if not, I could easily get by on €200 a week to do a full grocery shop for the family, enjoy a takeaway one night a week, two nights in the pub and even put away a little for a holiday later on in the year.

jester77

From past experience, anything over 3k a month after all bills are paid was comfortable. So that works out at €692.31 a week.

El Guapo!

If I had no bills to pay, €400 a week would be plenty.

msg11

I dunno if I would like to give up work.. I couldn't picture myself sitting around all day doing nothing. But 700-1000 would be reasonable a week for bills etc..

smash

seamus wrote: »

I could easily get by on €200 a week to do a full grocery shop for the family, enjoy a takeaway one night a week, two nights in the pub and even put away a little for a holiday later on in the year.

seamus

What are you confused about? Groceries: €100. Takeaway: €20. Two nights in the pub: €50. Savings: €30.

All bills are paid, so tax, insurance, petrol, heating, electricity, tv, internet, etc are looked after, right?

smash

seamus wrote: »

What are you confused about? Groceries: €100. Takeaway: €20. Two nights in the pub: €50. Savings: €30.

All bills are paid, so tax, insurance, petrol, heating, electricity, tv, internet, etc are looked after, right?

Even with bills looked after I couldn't live on €200 a week. You couldn't even have a family day out at the cinema or a meal in a restaurant without making a massive dent in your wallet.

Wacker The Attacker

foe fiddy and sh1t yo

Red_Wake

Not working would drive me stir crazy.

summerskin

couple of grand a week, if it included bills etc(no mortgage as per OP)in all seriousness. if i wasn't going to be working I'd want enough money to go on plenty of holidays, eat out a lot etc.

seamus

smash wrote: »

Even with bills looked after I couldn't live on €200 a week. You couldn't even have a family day out at the cinema or a meal in a restaurant without making a massive dent in your wallet.

Actually I read the thread wrong. I assumed it was "how much could you live on".

All bills paid, I would give up work if someone handed me €400/week. I'd probably still "work", but volunteer work or something worthwhile that's very poorly paid.

Rented Mule

I would need a ****load of money to give up my job. I would lose the head sitting around staring at the four walls in cold, wet Ireland.

Enough money to travel and entertain myself and the family (without drinking myself to death).

I'd be quite happy on €2500 per week.

DylanII

I would continue to work no matter how much I had.

I wouldn't be able to sit around all day.

Even if I won €100m on the euromillions I would still work. (Maybe take a year off)

Lapin

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

foe fiddy and sh1t yo

Different - I'll give you that.

Wacker The Attacker

Rented Mule wrote: »

I would need a ****load of money to give up my job. I would lose the head sitting around staring at the four walls in cold, wet Ireland.

Enough money to travel and entertain myself and the family (without drinking myself to death).

I'd be quite happy on €2500 per week.

As opposed to sitting in an office listening to people you have no time or affection for.

Wacker The Attacker

DylanII wrote: »

I would continue to work no matter how much I had.

I wouldn't be able to sit around all day.

Even if I won €100m on the euromillions I would still work. (Maybe take a year off)

If you cant sit around all day with €100 million in your bank account there is probably something wrong with you.

seamus

DylanII wrote: »

I wouldn't be able to sit around all day.

Even if I won €100m on the euromillions I would still work. (Maybe take a year off)

If you had €100m you wouldn't sit around all day. Your days would consist of driving places in your exceptionally expensive car to do fun things with your family.

El Guapo!

seamus wrote: »

If you had €100m you wouldn't sit around all day. Your days would consist of driving places in your exceptionally expensive car to do fun things with your family.

Or one of your many, many girlfriends!

Katgurl

2K. what would I do all day? I'd need money to fill up my time.

westendgirlie

Katgurl wrote: »

2K. what would I do all day? I'd need money to fill up my time.

Shop all day!!!! Well I would anyway,

1 grand a week would keep me in shoes

smash

Katgurl wrote: »

2K. what would I do all day? I'd need money to fill up my time.

Exactly. A few grand disposable a week would be nice!

keano_afc

seamus wrote: »

Actually I read the thread wrong. I assumed it was "how much could you live on".

All bills paid, I would give up work if someone handed me €400/week. I'd probably still "work", but volunteer work or something worthwhile that's very poorly paid.

Volunteer work? I woudnt do it if you paid me.

Penn

dd972 wrote: »

Say you had no mortgage etc, what level of guaranteed for life weekly income would prompt you to give up work, I'd be happy with the shopping covered, a few cans and enough for a night out once/twice a week, maybe a little more to put aside as well, €400pw should do it for me.

It'd have to be enough not just to pay the bills etc, but also to entertain myself during all my time off. Right now I could easily survive on €188 per week, but I wouldn't really be able to afford to do anything with my time.

I'd say €400 per week too.

seamus

keano_afc wrote: »

Volunteer work? I woudnt do it if you paid me.

Depends on what you're volunteering to do. I'd spend all day at an animal shelter for nothing, but not an old folks' home or a homeless shelter.

TPD

I think not working would cause me to spend more money to keep myself occupied. After bills are paid I'd say 3-400 would be pretty comfortable. I'm getting about 400 a week at the minute but haven't the time to spend it.

WoollyRedHat

10k or thereabouts. What, too greedy?

dark crystal

DylanII wrote: »

I would continue to work no matter how much I had.

I wouldn't be able to sit around all day.

Even if I won €100m on the euromillions I would still work. (Maybe take a year off)

I don't get this attitude at all - The whole point of playing the lotto is to win enough money so you wouldn't ever have to work again!

Being rich doesn't mean you have to sit around all day doing nothing. The Euromillions would be wasted on someone who would just turn up for work again the next day. What's the point in staying in a job, when it could go to someone who actually needs it??

Caliden

1k/week

We all don't love work but without a job you would go mental without the human contact. At least with that money you could do something to make the days go by.

CruelCoin

In order not to bored off my head, i'd want enough to be able to cover entertainement for 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

2000 a week and i'd consider it.

Anything less than that and i'd be bored off my head and feeling like a sorry useless sack of crap.

Penn

CruelCoin wrote: »

In order not to bored off my head, i'd want enough to be able to cover entertainement for 7 days a week, 52 weeks a year.

2000 a week and i'd consider it.

Anything less than that and i'd be bored off my head and feeling like a sorry useless sack of crap.

I think there are plenty of things you could still do that would barely cost anything, like take up running or cycling, learn an instrument. Stuff like that. Even if you had money, if all of your friends were at work, there's not a lot you could spend your money on and still not feel bored after a few weeks.

Rented Mule

Wacker The Attacker wrote: »

As opposed to sitting in an office listening to people you have no time or affection for.

I enjoy what I do. If I didn't, I would have moved on long ago.

dd972

dark crystal wrote: »

I don't get this attitude at all - The whole point of playing the lotto is to win enough money so you wouldn't ever have to work again!

Being rich doesn't mean you have to sit around all day doing nothing. The Euromillions would be wasted on someone who would just turn up for work again the next day. What's the point in staying in a job, when it could go to someone who actually needs it??

agree totally, if you've X amount of millions your life is as fun or boring as you make it.