How much a week do you need to live on?

IvaBigWun

With the recent stories of landlords hiking rents in a big way: how much a week do you need yo live on?

By that I mean rent/mortgage, food, clothes (monthly?), car, electricity, TV/Broadband, socializing, mobile phone, putting a few euro aside for a holiday (if possible) etc.

If you took your monthly outgoings and divided them by 4 what figure would you arrive at?

Cookie_Monster

less than I earn, more than I'd like

Inspector Coptoor

monthly outgoings for Feb were €2k, so €500 a week.

sopretty

This is a silly question.

IvaBigWun

Poll added

sopretty

Are you asking about how much I need, for my 4 bed mansion in D4, with myself and my pomeranian dog, or myself and my 10 childer living in council accommodation in Leitrim?

Starbordsie

Including everything E180-E200 per week, on average.

yawhat!

Its a stupid question. The right way to ask is how much do you earn a year! Same thing no.

I pity the fool thats puts on jewel I Do I DO.

IvaBigWun

sopretty wrote: »

This is a silly question.

Why?

shopaholic01

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Poll added

So you already had a thread to see who was single, another one to find out what turns people on and now you have one to find out salary and spending habits?

Hmm ...........

mfergus

About three fiddy? ??

IvaBigWun

shopaholic01 wrote: »

So you already had a thread to see who was single, another one to find out what turns people on and now you have one to find out salary and spending habits?

Hmm ...........

And 3 and a half thousand posts over 9 years and one of the few 10k threads on AH in the past year.

So put away that tinfoil hat











Im just a nosey bástard

The Backwards Man

I'd only need about €50-60 a week

Want far more though.:P

shopaholic01

IvaBigWun wrote: »

And 3 and a half thousand posts over 9 years and one of the few 10k threads on AH in the past year.

So put away that tinfoil hat

Im just a nosey bástard

I'm nosey too, what's your figure?

IvaBigWun

If you choose "More than €1,200 a week" please specify roughly how much.

The mind boggles at such a weekly outgoing!

Sugar Free

Dublin city rent + loan x2 + car expenses + food + utilities etc.

2200-2400 a month. 550-600 a week.

That figure excludes savings though, which are becoming significant.
Also, it's important to clarify what people mean by 'need'. For some it may be to simply scrape by (a lot of student or graduates for example). For me, the above is to have a comfortable lifestlye/

IvaBigWun

shopaholic01 wrote: »

I'm nosey too, what's your figure?

I chose one of the poll options. I'll let you guess which one

sopretty

Well, my D4 mansion is entirely paid off.
My dog has extremely expensive taste - he costs me 100 a week in food, 40 a week in grooming, 40 per month for his vet check up
My nail care costs 100 per month
My therapist costs 100 per week
My hair dresser costs 100 per week
My personal trainer costs 200 per week
My dietician/buyer costs 300 per week
My maid costs 1000 per week
My accountant doesn't charge me...
My head is melting trying to think of these things - what did you ask again?

Chucken

IvaBigWun wrote: »

If you choose "More than €1,200 a week" please specify roughly how much.

The mind boggles at such a weekly outgoing!

But what difference does it make?
It's all relative....to lots of things.

scwazrh

1200 a week for a family of four is not as much as some people may think.decent house,two cars,holiday a year,kids education ,It all adds up very fast.

The_Morrigan

What I need 650-700 a week, what I get 300.....it's all going horribly wrong!

Stavros Murphy

IvaBigWun wrote: »

If you choose "More than €1,200 a week" please specify roughly how much.

The mind boggles at such a weekly outgoing!

Riight. Whys that? And what if someone added a zero? Would that be mad?

KeithM89

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Riight. Whys that? And what if someone added a zero? Would that be mad?

Bang on.
Shur those vans don't look after themselves!

Stavros Murphy

Keith wrote: »

Bang on.
Shur those vans don't look after themselves!

The Redneck said you'd be passing. You're just ticked off there isn't a negative option. I'm thinking about the Michael Flatley/ Cybil Reilly-Holmes types who have forty houses and a chauffeur. There has to be a few knocking around, by the law of averages.

IvaBigWun

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

Riight. Whys that? And what if someone added a zero? Would that be mad?

Perhaps I was keeping the singleton in mind rather than a family man who has to cover four people

KeithM89

Stavros Murphy wrote: »

The Redneck said you'd be passing. You're just ticked off there isn't a negative option. I'm thinking about the Michael Flatley/ Cybil Reilly-Holmes types who have forty houses and a chauffeur. There has to be a few knocking around, by the law of averages.

Ach they've all packed up and scarpered to ibizzzzzza. I must try and scrap together a few bob and get the drive hosed some day. Tough goin living on six quid a week.

Renegade Mechanic

Currently I Need rather more than Im making. Not something Im planning on keeping that way!

Edit: Oi!!!

Dermighty

€1,201 per week.

€1,200 on cabbage and €1 on an all scratch card.

Maudi

IvaBigWun wrote: »

With the recent stories of landlords hiking rents in a big way: how much a week do you need yo live on?

By that I mean rent/mortgage, food, clothes (monthly?), car, electricity, TV/Broadband, socializing, mobile phone, putting a few euro aside for a holiday (if possible) etc.

If you took your monthly outgoings and divided them by 4 what figure would you arrive at?

You first.

wotzgoingon

I need coppers to live on. Weekly outgoing about €1,000,000.00






















May not be coppers to the rest of you peasants.

IvaBigWun

Maudi wrote: »

You first.

[/Brendan Grace/]Ive picked my poll option and thats all that matters[//Brendan Grace]

WellThen?

You really do end up spending exactly what you have, for example when I made €600 a month while I was in college, I feel like I was living the same kind of lifestyle than to what I am earning now, which is more than double....HOW!?

Depends on whether it's just me or do I have to support my family as well???

IvaBigWun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Poll added

shopaholic01 wrote: »

So you already had a thread to see who was single, another one to find out what turns people on and now you have one to find out salary and spending habits?

Hmm ...........

Perhaps the OP should ask for a name change to "IvaBigPoll"

IvaBigWun

Deleted User wrote: »

Depends on whether it's just me or do I have to support my family as well???

Lets say just you.

Im presuming most of those who picked "More than €1,200 a week" are heads of families

IvaBigWun

Deleted User wrote: »

Perhaps the OP should ask for a name change to "IvaBigPoll"

Same thing tbh.





:pac:

IvaBigWun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Lets say just you.

Im presuming most of those who picked "More than €1,200 a week" are heads of families

Heads of well off families that's for sure!

shopaholic01

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Same thing tbh.





:pac:

Doesn't roll off the tongue as easily though.

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Realistically about 450 a week. I'm not even close to that at the moment though.

donegal__road

shopaholic01 wrote: »

So you already had a thread to see who was single, another one to find out what turns people on and now you have one to find out salary and spending habits?

Hmm ...........

Ireland is turning into a Stasi state by the day..

eireannBEAR

Id be interest to know how people are living on less than fifty a week OP!

shopaholic01

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Id be interest to know how people are living on less than fifty a week OP!

Don't have to pay rent, bills or buy their own food. I'd say a lot of single people could live on that.

donegal__road

donegal__road wrote: »

Ireland is turning into a Stasi state by the day..

I would disagree, the stasi were like the church leaders who ruled over the people back in the day.

These days, we are much free'er (if that's a word) today than ever before, because we have access to more information than every generation before ever could have ever dreamed of.

IvaBigWun

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Id be interest to know how people are living on less than fifty a week OP!

Pot Noodles, Dutch Gold and no rent to Mammy

eireannBEAR

eireannBEAR wrote: »

Id be interest to know how people are living on less than fifty a week OP!

Prisoners & asylum seekers in secure accommodation spring to mind.

Cookie_Monster

$1050 a fortnight which is about 318 eur a week for everything after savings

IvaBigWun

IvaBigWun wrote: »

Pot Noodles, Dutch Gold and no rent to Mammy

Alcohol & monosodium glutamate ftw

holystungun9

Bout 170 a week covers my rent, bills,groceries and gets me to the cinema and a drink or two. It is a bit tighter than I want but I prob make some changes soon.

Idle Passerby

You can only live within whatever means you have, if your means were greater you would probably rent/own a nicer house, have a newer car, go on fancier holidays. What you need to get by is dependent on your available funds.

IvaBigWun

Idle Passerby wrote: »

You can only live within whatever means you have, if your means were greater you would probably rent/own a nicer house, have a newer car, go on fancier holidays. What you need to get by is dependent on your available funds.

Very much this.

It's how a lot of uber wealthy people go bust when they start going nuts on extravagances

Push Pop

In silicon valley where rent is mental and 14 dollar cocktails are common, easily Eur800 per week is needed to have a good lifestyle. When I lived in Dublin I could get by on Eur400 per week.