How much 'spending money' do you get through a week? THE REAL POLL

[zenie]

Ah, fair play! Looks like I might be getting £1500 off HSBC in reclaimed charges, so that's good. Will help.

How? Pray tell?

 

[marty21]

i spend about £100 in cash a week, but i use my card for other stuff maybe another £60 or so

 

[sojourner]

I'm obviously in the wrong job. Although I seem to work my fucking arse off, I can't afford more than £50 a week..and that's pushing it. I do a lot of clever stuff too, like take butties into work, and that.

Actually...I spend most on music and food. My daughter walks around in rags...while I build my collection

 

[marty21]

i'm lucky, very low mortgage costs, low travel costs

 

[spanglechick]

I'm obviously in the wrong job. Although I seem to work my fucking arse off, I can't afford more than £50 a week..and that's pushing it. I do a lot of clever stuff too, like take butties into work, and that.

hmm, a mystery...

Actually...I spend most on music and food. My daughter walks around in rags...while I build my collection

mystery solved! (us lot are mostly childless)

 

[wtfftw]

I'm guessing at £40. I have £50 a week for everything but rent and I keep not being able to pay bills so hmm.

 

[sojourner]

hmm, a mystery...


mystery solved! (us lot are mostly childless)

Aha. That'll be it then! *smacks forehead*

 

[Ms T]

It depends, but probably nearer to £200 than £100. We normally eat out at least once a week, and I have a seemingly uncontrollable clothes shopping habit! Having said that, I always take my own food to work, shop in Lidl, and spend next to nothing down the pub. When I drink, it's normally at home, and we do a booze cruise to France every six months or so.

 

[marty21]

hmm, a mystery...


mystery solved! (us lot are mostly childless)

 

[spanglechick]

oh, I don't remember that one being taken. Was it at the picnicic?

 

[marty21]

oh, I don't remember that one being taken. Was it at the picnicic?

i was thinking someone might be taking it in about 50 years?

 

[moose]

I probably spend between 150 and 200 on the 2 of us. We eat out a fair bit, but don't go to the pub unless we're on holiday somewhere. I make up for it with nice wine at home most nights. I have an insatiable knitting wool habit, and we buy a fair few magazines each month. Petrol is one of our biggest expenses.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Dear All,

How much do you spend a week? I'm including food, drinks, fags, drugs, magazines, CDs, books, etc.

Everything but bills, travel, rent, mortgage, debt repayment, and big one offs like holidays.

Me? Currently I'd guess £140.. trying to lower it.

What do you mean, 'get'?

 

[8ball]

I'm shocked it's so low - I think all you loaded Londoners are pleading poverty for sympathy

 

[ChrisFilter]

What do you mean, 'get'?

I can't see anywhere where I'd written 'get'?

 

[ChrisFilter]

I'm shocked it's so low - I think all you loaded Londoners are pleading poverty for sympathy

I'm thinking it more likely that people spend more than they realise.

 

[spanglechick]

I can't see anywhere where I'd written 'get'?

thread title - but i don't see the problem. Maybe they don't use "get through" as a word construction over there.

 

[Wintermute]

Well.. going on the assumption that I never have anything left at the end of the month, so.. salary minus bills'nshit.. is.. errr.... fuck... that's over £200 a week.

Fuuuuck. What the hell am I doing with two hundred quid a week?

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

I can't see anywhere where I'd written 'get'?

Er, the thread title?

"How much 'spending money' do you get through a week? THE REAL POLL "

 

[pno]

I spend far too much.

Weekends usually at least £100 and throughout the week probably another 40 or 50.

 

[ddraig]

Er, the thread title?

"How much 'spending money' do you get through a week? THE REAL POLL "

how much beer do you get through of an evening johnny me lad?

 

[ChrisFilter]

Sorry Johnny, 'get through' is a UK word construction, 'How much do you get through' means how much do you spend / consume.

 

[northernhord]

I,m a jobless Northerner at the mo so its £55.10 a week, the last time I was working I spent about £200 a week on everything.

 

[Treebeak]

Reckon I prolly spend about £300 a week. £150 of that at the weekends. Sounds a lot really and seeing as I was Mrs Two-Rents for three months of this year and still managed to survive I guess what I spend is quite excessive.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

how much beer do you get through of an evening johnny me lad?

We say 'go through'.

 

[Johnny Canuck3]

Sorry Johnny, 'get through' is a UK word construction, 'How much do you get through' means how much do you spend / consume.

Ok. As said above, we'd say 'go through' to mean the same thing.

 

[Xanadu]

Usually depends on which friends I'm out with, but between £30 and £*insert embarassingly stupid amount*.

For the past 6 weeks, I've been spending over £500 a week - not my money though.

 

[Choc]

maybe between £50 and £150.

more in the summer and if i am not working (which seems to be quite a lot these days ie not working)

 

[geminisnake]

Dear All,

How much do you spend a week? I'm including food, drinks, fags, drugs, magazines, CDs, books, etc.

The only thing I buy weekly out of that list is food. Buy two packets of cigarettes about every fortnight.

 

[rascal]

yo I gonna make friends with everybody on the upper end of the spectrum. Can youse peeps all pm me your contact details please