Walking Around Money, Mon-Fri

ashers222 · 08-03-2013 02:53AM

When I wasn't working I tried to make sure I had 20 in my pocket on Monday morning to last til thursday, covered coffee, tobacco and emergency rations. I spend at least that much per day every day when I'm working.

08-03-2013 02:55AM

Depends if I'm on the beer or not!!

Very little if I'm not as I use the debit card for almost everything.

pickarooney · 08-03-2013 11:30AM

I rarely have any cash during the week. Credit card and lunch vouchers only.

The Dagda · 08-03-2013 11:58AM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

Filters for my e-cig cost 15 euro.

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

Legs.Eleven · 08-03-2013 12:01PM

I suppose about 20 Euro which is spent on coffees, the odd glass of wine/snazzy Belgian beer and the newspaper. I eat at home and bring a bag of nuts for snacks.

kfallon · 08-03-2013 12:11PM

About €40 would do me Mon - Fri and around €20 of that would be spent on paying for football!

keithsfleet · 08-03-2013 12:12PM

Fridays are my Saturdays so I'll say Monday-Thursday.
Easily €100-€ 150 for those four days.
I'm a 20a day smoker, litre a day coffee drinker and I eat out for lunch every day which would be €10-€15 a pop.
On the upside though, I fill my water bottles at home so I'm saving nearly €3 euro a day on water.

Oregano_State · 08-03-2013 12:17PM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

About 100 euro. Filters for my e-cig cost 15 euro, two coffees every day while in work (5 per day x 6 days = 30 euro), travel to and from work each day is around 30 euro, lunch twice a week (too busy to eat lunch, even if I bring it in, every other day) = 15 euro and about a tenner goes on stupid stuff like a magazine if I'm bored, or something like that.

2 coffees every day = 5 per day x 6 days?????

Valetta · 08-03-2013 12:18PM

andym1 wrote: »

50 euro is nothing compared to 50 a few years ago.
5/6 years ago a 50 would do me a full working week without going out on the razz or going to the ATM. I could put 20 petrol in the car and get a sambo at lunchtime, do the 2 euro lotto on a wednesday etc and maybe a sliced pan or milk on the way home or whatever.
How much ''Walking Around Money'' do you spend Monday to Friday ?
Going out is Different !

I'm confused.

A litre of petrol in 2008 was 1.27 so the equivalent of €20 would be €25.67 (using a current petrol price of 1.63)

As far as I'm aware the 2 Euro lotto on a Wednesday still costs €2.

According to here http://ireland.angloinfo.com/money/eu-factsheets/cost-of-living/ the cost of living has decreased since 2008.

So your €50 note should get you roughly the same as it did in 2008.

vitani · 08-03-2013 12:27PM

Less than €20 would do me. That covers parking for three days, the occasional lunch or snack (about once a week) and sometimes a magazine or newspaper. I bring my lunch to work most days, and I've cut out the takeaway coffee habit.

I tend to spend whatever I have left after the weekend, so sometimes I get by on just €10, sometimes it's more. If I've no cash on me, I cut out the little purchases that tend to add up.

Mr Benevolent · 08-03-2013 12:28PM

About €40.

ScumLord · 08-03-2013 12:34PM

The Dagda wrote: »

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

not at all, they're made by Jesus enterprises using his loafs and fishes technology.

TheNap · 08-03-2013 01:22PM

I take it people come home from work and dont leave their house until its time to go to work the next morning . Thats pretty sad .

rain on · 08-03-2013 01:51PM

Feck all really - I spend 80 cent on breakfast every morning, lunch is free, spend another 50c-€1 on a snack most afternoons, tea and coffee are free. Weekly grocery shop is about €40. Petrol - I put in €60 three weeks ago and the needle is only tipping the red now, so say €20 a week. I go training every night which is €60 a month/~€14 a week, I'm too knackered afterwards to do anything on weeknights.

not yet · 08-03-2013 01:52PM

2,000 on brass, 500 on coke, 500 for bookies, so about 3k normally does me.....

vitani · 08-03-2013 02:02PM

TheNap wrote: »

I take it people come home from work and dont leave their house until its time to go to work the next morning . Thats pretty sad .

Some of us have kids. As well as the expense and inconvenience of organising babysitting, I'm perfectly content to just have a few hours to myself to read or watch TV after my child goes to sleep. It's the only time of day that's mine, where I don't have to do anything.

Esoteric_ · 08-03-2013 11:32PM

The Dagda wrote: »

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

The ones I sell (and also buy for myself) do. There are some where you replace the liquid in them, but that's too messy for me to do, so I buy ones that I also sell, with replacement filters, so you get around 200 smokes for 15 euro.

Esoteric_ · 08-03-2013 11:33PM

Oregano_State wrote: »

2 coffees every day = 5 per day x 6 days?????

5 euro per day (2.50 for each coffee where I work), I work 6 days a week minimum.

Capt'n Midnight · 09-03-2013 03:16AM

Sarn wrote: »

If I need to buy milk then €1.65, otherwise, on average a little over zero.

Ohhh fancy brand name milk :P

ordinary milk not good enough ?

IrishExpat · 09-03-2013 03:23AM

I used to be a fiend for Coca Cola - and that could easily be 8€ daily x 5, that and ducking into McDonalds for a quick, unhealthy lunch on the go. Definitely adds up over time.

I rarely eat out now as I prepare meals at home and steadily saving a mini-fortune, and my health.

Usually €70 or thereabouts in the wallet, but rarely spend come Friday.

BeardySi · 09-03-2013 01:11PM

£0 - skip lunch, cycle to work get all the tea/coffee I can drink there...

I found not actually carrying any money is a great way to avoid spending it...

D1stant · 09-03-2013 01:20PM

Treadhead wrote: »

£0 - skip lunch, cycle to work get all the tea/coffee I can drink there...

I found not actually carrying any money is a great way to avoid spending it...

Ah the life of a T.D.

Grayson · 09-03-2013 01:37PM

anything from 30 to 100. Eitherway about 20 is spent on coffee. Probably more actually. When i smoked I could easilly go through 100-150 in a week. You end up breaking a 20 every day on smokes and the rest disappears. Since i stopped smoking it just depends on wether or not I end up spending on crap.

_Kaiser_ · 09-03-2013 02:43PM

In cash.. maybe €40 a week (coffee and danish every morning, lunch in the canteen, cans of coke etc)

Then there's maybe €50 in diesel but that's on my fuel card so comes out once a month. The rest is paid for through DD or online banking

Sometimes more if takeaways get involved - damn Dominos megathread in BA

andym1 · 12-03-2013 02:08PM

Esoteric_ wrote: »

The ones I sell (and also buy for myself) do. There are some where you replace the liquid in them, but that's too messy for me to do, so I buy ones that I also sell, with replacement filters, so you get around 200 smokes for 15 euro.

How do you know when its empty/needs replacing ? Some sort of gauge ?

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