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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.

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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.

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

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.

[Deleted User]

Canadel wrote: »

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.

I think smokers are already aware of how much it costs in monetary and health terms, and just don't appreciate any sanctimonious after-the-fact judgement for the sake of it. They don't need telling, which I'm sure both you and the original poster know but can't resist getting the snipe in anyway.

I've never smoked btw, and still somehow don't feel the need to disparage people who did, particularly those who are struggling to quit.

Tigger

**** the begrudgers

i smoked from age 14 till age 30
i quit cos i got it was bad for me
i've recently lost a good friend and at the wake i re started smoking
its soo addictive that even tho i successfully quit before i'm back on them at the mo
call me stupid?
i could care less i'll detox over chrimbo

markc2951

Up â‚¬60 a week since I gave up smoking

Beasty

My spend has increased exponentially through December in the past few years ...

Micky Dolenz

xtradel wrote: »

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:

Your hair does smell lovely

Canadel wrote: »

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.

I know you. How are tricks?

xtradel

Canadel wrote: »

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.

Candie wrote: »

I think smokers are already aware of how much it costs in monetary and health terms, and just don't appreciate any sanctimonious after-the-fact judgement for the sake of it. They don't need telling, which I'm sure both you and the original poster know but can't resist getting the snipe in anyway.

I've never smoked btw, and still somehow don't feel the need to disparage people who did, particularly those who are struggling to quit.

Candie...thanks for deciphering Canadels post for me because I genuinely had no clue were they with me or against me!! Way too many big words for a smokers toxic brain

[Deleted User]

xtradel wrote: »

Way too many big words for a smokers toxic brain

I hate smoking around me because of the smell etc, but never in a million years would I decide that smoking was an indicator of intelligence or lack of it!

Saying that kind of thing is just getting digs in for the sake of it, imo. Pointless and nasty.

Micky Dolenz

Candie wrote: »

I hate smoking around me because of the smell etc, but never in a million years would I decide that smoking was an indicator of intelligence or lack of it!

Saying that kind of thing is just getting digs in for the sake of it, imo. Pointless and nasty.

Yeah, terrible and nasty. Down with that sort of thing.

[Deleted User]

About 40 euro a week, maybe 50. I smoke very little, I cook just for myself. Boyfriend has a well paid job and pays for weekend recreation.

Canadel

Candie wrote: »

I think smokers are already aware of how much it costs in monetary and health terms, and just don't appreciate any sanctimonious after-the-fact judgement for the sake of it. They don't need telling, which I'm sure both you and the original poster know but can't resist getting the snipe in anyway.

I've never smoked btw, and still somehow don't feel the need to disparage people who did, particularly those who are struggling to quit.

Thankfully I don't base my posts on how appreciative smokers will be of them. And while it might not be true in a thread about giving up smoking, I think it's entirely fair to comment that smart people don't start smoking in the first place when the issue of smoking costs arises in a thread about spending.