How much per week do you spend?

Green Mile

Excluding direct debits and money to savings, car repayments etc etc. How much do you spend during the week and at the weekend?

I know different weeks would be different but let’s say it’s a bog standard week.

I seem to be comfortable with €200 per week which covers my week and weekend (I don’t drink much).
I’m trying to figure out if my weekly budget (aka lifestyle) is over/under kill compared to AH readers.

Penny Tration

Excluding necessities (travel and food costs, bills etc), about fifty to seventy euro. That's for doing something with the boyfriend like cinema or whatever, liquid for my ecig and whatever I may see in a shop that I like. occasionally a bottle of wine too

Green Mile

Penny Tration wrote: »

Excluding necessities (travel and food costs, bills etc), about fifty to seventy euro. That's for doing something with the boyfriend like cinema or whatever, liquid for my ecig and whatever I may see in a shop that I like. occasionally a bottle of wine too

I see yeah my €200 would cover food (shopping and eating out)

Boom_Bap

Whatever Mrs. Bap lets me

GiftofGab

Give myself a budget of €200. About €70 on food, €20 on petrol and the rest of drinks, clothes and ad hoc expenses. I go to atm each Sunday and take out €200 to do me for the week. Sometimes I go over the €200 and sometimes I have some money left over from the previous week.

the evasion_kid

€40...I've got the art of frugality down to a science

One eyed Jack

Penny Tration wrote: »

Excluding necessities (travel and food costs, bills etc), about fifty to seventy euro. That's for doing something with the boyfriend like cinema or whatever, liquid for my ecig and whatever I may see in a shop that I like. occasionally a bottle of wine too

I'd budget for about the same myself. I used budget €20 a day going to work but since I started with the ecig I got that down to €10 a day, covers coffee break and lunch.

The whole idea of a budget for yourself OP is how much you allow yourself to spend, based upon your own income. I don't really have a budget as such as my wife does all the finances so I don't have to think about that stuff, I'm happy enough once I have money to cover the essentials.

osarusan

My wife does the weekly shop and I don't know how much that costs.

So excluding that, no more than 10 euro from Monday to Friday normally, as I cycle to and from home and bring lunch and a flask of coffee with me. Some weeks (Mon-Fri) I might literally not spend anything at all.

Weekends, if I'm going to a Limerick FC game at home, maybe a pint or two (walk to games and have a season ticket) but if it is away I'll be on a bus, driving or getting a lift (paying for petrol either way) as well as the cost of the ticket.

I'll also be taking the kids to the park or something like that, so a few euro on a drink or some ice-cream or something like that.

But very very little in general.

readyletsgo

About €200 a week also, sometimes more, sometimes less.

I do go to the pub twice a week #norecessionhere ;p

I'm pretty sure if I only went to the pub once a week I'd only need €100 for myself each week but I do love me pints.

Penny Tration

One eyed Jack wrote: »

I'd budget for about the same myself. I used budget €20 a day going to work but since I started with the ecig I got that down to €10 a day, covers coffee break and lunch.

The whole idea of a budget for yourself OP is how much you allow yourself to spend, based upon your own income. I don't really have a budget as such as my wife does all the finances so I don't have to think about that stuff, I'm happy enough once I have money to cover the essentials.

I used to spend twenty a day just on smokes :eek:

Now I just write up a budget each Thursday, put essential money away and whatever is left in my purse is for whatever I want. I usually have more than half of it left the next week, except for lately because I've been using it for Christmas presents

Sam Kade

Penny Tration wrote: »

I used to spend twenty a day just on smokes :eek:

Now I just write up a budget each Thursday, put essential money away and whatever is left in my purse is for whatever I want. I usually have more than half of it left the next week, except for lately because I've been using it for Christmas presents

40 fags a day :eek: spending over 7k a year to mess up your health.

Duggy747

I'd say about €50 - €70 though that goes up whenever the animals' stuff like food / hay / bedding has to be topped up which is once every few weeks.

I always make sure I got some money for lovely beer in the fridge though......................and food, of course..........................but mainly beer :pac:

Mesrine65

All of it!

Timberrrrrrrr

Too much

Penny Tration

Sam Kade wrote: »

40 fags a day :eek: spending over 7k a year to mess up your health.

Sometimes fifty a day.

Precisely why I stopped smoking!

jester77

Too busy working and paying taxes for others to spend.









/sarcasm

Sam Kade

Penny Tration wrote: »

Sometimes fifty a day.

Precisely why I stopped smoking!

Well done.

padd b1975

Penny Tration wrote: »

Sometimes fifty a day.

Precisely why I stopped smoking!

The really clever people don't start.

discus

30 sterling, and thats me VERY well fed. Aldi is fecking brilliant, that includes a filet mignon at the end of the week too

Mister Vain

About 80 euro, half of that is on petrol.

Penny Tration

padd b1975 wrote: »

The really clever people don't start.

I was 11. 11 year olds aren't clever in general.

Micky Dolenz

€500-€700 a week, I go out a lot.

I spend most of it on drink,drugs and women.The rest I squander.

Mister Vain

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

€500-€700 a week, I go out a lot.

I spend most of it on drink,drugs and women.The rest I squander.

Would that be escorts or 100 euro dates?

Micky Dolenz

Mister Vain wrote: »

Would that be escorts or 100 euro dates?

Escorts would probably be cheaper with guaranteed results :P

sonny.knowles

I budget EUR 600 a month, covers food, entertainment etc, usually have EUR 150 / 200 left over to spend on main hobby.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

I have absolutely no idea what I spend in a week. I stopped counting the pennies years ago.

charlietheminxx

For just on myself 25 - 70 euro depending on whether I am doing anything at the weekend or not.

Between myself and the other half, we probably spend 70 - 100 euro a week out of the joint account on groceries, a few beers and maybe a takeaway.

So I guess an average of 60 - 120 a week for me.

catbear

years ago I downloaded one of those daily budget apps and it really focused my spending.
I don't use it now but it trained me to be very aware of my habits and allowed me to balance between small regular spends and large one offs during any year. I actually got it down to saving every second pay check without feeling I was depriving myself of treats. The payoff was that what I didn't spend daily went to my great passion which was travel.

I've no idea exactly as I don't budget or really track exactly what I spend but if I subtract my average monthly savings, rent and all the main bills etc from my net salary and divide by 4 I get about 300 euro. A month is more than 4 weeks so a bit less than 300 euro a week it would appear. At least one heavy night on the beer every week and eating out a fair bit would probably contribute a lot to that. It would also include buying lunch, shopping for the week along with petrol (around 30 a week I suppose).

That's also doesn't take into account one offs like tax for the car etc too but averaged over 52 weeks these would be fairly small.

The_Valeyard

Poor.


When you have too much month at the end of your money.

Sh1tbag OToole

€188

callaway92

Paid monthly...so

Pay week - €250 or so.

Next two weeks - €150 or so

Last week - €120 or so

Make my lunches for the last week while going to restaurants on Fridays every week.

Petrol is such a sick expense in the long run.

I have spent very little lately. Outside of the essentials, I don't need much. I've spent nothing so far this week, other than filling the car which I might do every two or three weeks, since I don't use the car to commute. I might spend a bit at weekends, but I don't drink or smoke so even then I wouldn't spend much socialising, unless I'm eating out or going to an event.

I'm going to have a bit of a blowout this weekend on clothes and a few things for the winter, otherwise I'd probably spend no more than fifty on a quiet weekend.

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petrolcan

padd b1975 wrote: »

The really clever people don't start.

FFS!

Aint Eazy Being Cheezy

I'm on the dole, but I do a few nixers too. My bills are low enough, because I've a 4 bed council house which costs me €0.65 a month. I just ring the doctor on call and he comes over, or if not he'll send an ambulance, the medical card covers that. The community welfare officer pays the gas & leccy bills once the arrears get too high.

So that's the necessities taken care of, so after I've my takeaway and few cans every night, which costs roughly €130 a week, I've a couple of hundred left to stick in the credit union, just for a "rainy day."

In a few more years I expect to be covered in gout.

Figbiscuithead

About 80 which includes food, transport and drink. I buy myself the odd thing (jumper, shoes etc.) every other week or so too.

new32234

Spend about €80 per week on average out of net income of €450..

desperately trying to save while I'm young ish & have the opportunity to..

Crumpets

I try not to think too much about it to be honest. I really need to try a bit harder at being frugal but I have this awful "shur fook it" attitude.

jamesbere

Probably about 100, food transport and some take away.

xtradel

padd b1975 wrote: »

The really clever people don't start.

As a person who smoked for 28 years and who gave them up 23 days & 6 hours & 33 seconds ago but more importantly as a boards.ie user for the last 7 years infraction free I will happily call you a ****wad of the highest order... congrats!

padd b1975

xtradel wrote: »

As a person who smoked for 28 years and who gave them up 23 days & 6 hours & 33 seconds ago but more importantly as a boards.ie user for the last 7 years infraction free I will happily call you a ****wad of the highest order... congrats!

If deciding that not spending >€7,000 per year to achieve the sum total of bad breath, stinking clothes and a fast track to lung/heart disease makes me a ****wad of the highest order, then so be it!

Sam Kade

new32234 wrote: »

Spend about €80 per week on average out of net income of €450..

desperately trying to save while I'm young ish & have the opportunity to die rich

The Randy Riverbeast

25 on shopping and about 10 on other things, maybe 20 if its an extravagant week.

xtradel

padd b1975 wrote: »

If deciding that not spending >€7,000 per year to achieve the sum total of bad breath, stinking clothes and a fast track to lung/heart disease makes me a ****wad of the highest order, then so be it!

I started when I was 12 and I got into a habit.....thats 12 years old.....when you were 12 years old did you stop everything that was wrong for you with some magical foresight into the future?

Penny Tration

padd b1975 wrote: »

If deciding that not spending >€7,000 per year to achieve the sum total of bad breath, stinking clothes and a fast track to lung/heart disease makes me a ****wad of the highest order, then so be it!

I'd imagine the point he's making is that you categorically state that people who smoke are not intelligent. That's simply not true.

Aside from that, the vast majority of adult smokers started as children. Children aren't clever. Children make stupid choices. By the time you're old enough to realise that you made a really stupid decision - you're addicted. That doesn't lessen one's intellectual ability. It means they have an addiction from a stupid childhood decision.

As for me - insult my intelligence all you like. I'm just happy I quit. My intelligence isn't something I need to prove to you.

xtradel

Penny Tration wrote: »

I'd imagine the point he's making is that you categorically state that people who smoke are not intelligent. That's simply not true.

Aside from that, the vast majority of adult smokers started as children. Children aren't clever. Children make stupid choices. By the time you're old enough to realise that you made a really stupid decision - you're addicted. That doesn't lessen one's intellectual ability. It means they have an addiction from a stupid childhood decision.

As for me - insult my intelligence all you like. I'm just happy I quit. My intelligence isn't something I need to prove to you.

Thank you 1 million times.

Micky Dolenz

I like smoking cigarettes cos I like it. The same reason I like lots of other shyte that people would call me stupid for liking. But ya know what, for all those people that call me stupid for liking shyte they don't like, I can call you out on doing stupid shyte I don't like and is proper stupid. Heh.

Right now I don't smoke and haven't in a while but may do so again sometime, cos I like it.

Canadel

padd b1975 wrote: »

If deciding that not spending >€7,000 per year to achieve the sum total of bad breath, stinking clothes and a fast track to lung/heart disease makes me a ****wad of the highest order, then so be it!

Don't worry, you're right. People don't like being told the truth when it's to their own disadvantage however, and will in turn try and deflect attention away from themselves to accusations of self righteousness towards yourself.

xtradel

Micky Dolenz wrote: »

I like smoking cigarettes cos I like it. The same reason I like lots of other shyte that people would call me stupid for liking. But ya know what, for all those people that call me stupid for liking shyte they don't like, I can call you out on doing stupid shyte I don't like and is proper stupid. Heh.

Right now I don't smoke and haven't in a while but may do so again sometime, cos I like it.

I love them...I'm having a few beers now and there's nothing more that I'd love now than a smoke.......but......

I've a stupid app on my phone that tells me everyday that I'm a great lad for not smoking but more importantly my hair will smell better....wtf :eek:

omerin

xtradel wrote: »

I started when I was 12 and I got into a habit.....thats 12 years old.....when you were 12 years old did you stop everything that was wrong for you with some magical foresight into the future?

I can't speak for the person the person you addressed the question to, but unless you were born in the 1920's or 30's the implications of smoking are well known.
It might be worthwhile starting a thread on what got people smoking, as someone who has never smoked it really pisses me off hearing people starting at 11 and 12, it's so depressing.