How much per week do you spend?

Green Mile · 05-11-2015 01:18PM #1

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 · 05-11-2015 01:20PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:22PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:22PM

Whatever Mrs. Bap lets me

GiftofGab · 05-11-2015 01:22PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:26PM

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

One eyed Jack · 05-11-2015 01:26PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:31PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:35PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:37PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:44PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:49PM

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 · 05-11-2015 01:49PM

All of it!

Timberrrrrrrr · 05-11-2015 01:50PM

Too much

Penny Tration · 05-11-2015 02:00PM

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 · 05-11-2015 02:04PM

Too busy working and paying taxes for others to spend.

/sarcasm

Sam Kade · 05-11-2015 06:41PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

Sometimes fifty a day.

Precisely why I stopped smoking!

Well done.

padd b1975 · 05-11-2015 06:56PM

Penny Tration wrote: »

Sometimes fifty a day.

Precisely why I stopped smoking!

The really clever people don't start.

discus · 05-11-2015 06:58PM

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 · 05-11-2015 07:01PM

About 80 euro, half of that is on petrol.

Penny Tration · 05-11-2015 07:02PM

padd b1975 wrote: »

The really clever people don't start.

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

Micky Dolenz · 05-11-2015 07:02PM

€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 · 05-11-2015 07:04PM

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 · 05-11-2015 07:05PM

Mister Vain wrote: »

Would that be escorts or 100 euro dates?

Escorts would probably be cheaper with guaranteed results :P

sonny.knowles · 05-11-2015 07:22PM

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

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1 · 05-11-2015 07:25PM

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

charlietheminxx · 05-11-2015 07:30PM

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 · 05-11-2015 07:30PM

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.

05-11-2015 07:39PM

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 · 05-11-2015 07:59PM

Poor.

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

Sh1tbag OToole · 05-11-2015 08:07PM

€188

How much per week do you spend?

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