>>23799 I just finished being a student. My rent was £420/month, I would spend about £30 per week on food (I'd buy a load of veg, meat, cheese from the market and get carb stuff from the supermarket generally, usually rice and lentils).
I don't know anyone who goes to the cinema here anymore, it's just not worth it - you sit through 20 minutes of adverts to see a film you don't know if you'll enjoy or not and pay £8-10 for the privilege.
My net take home pay is in the region of £1,800 per month, which includes pension, private medical, critical illness and student loan.
My mortgage is £680 per month and I've life cover of £10 per month. To be honest I've no idea how much any of the bills are because I leave it to my other half as she's very savvy and our broadband for the past year only cost around £30 in total because of using Top CashBack. All I know is that it's enough to raise three kids (also my other half while she 'takes a year or two out' to spend time with the baby) and have a surplus of around £200 per month without being frugal.
>>23800 >I don't know anyone who goes to the cinema here anymore, it's just not worth it - you sit through 20 minutes of adverts to see a film you don't know if you'll enjoy or not and pay £8-10 for the privilege.
I only take my kids to the 10am showings on the weekend because they're around £2 a ticket.
>>23802 So you're running a family of 3 on £900 a month?
I'm the lad in the other thread fretting about my first job and I'll have about £600 to myself after rent, loan repayment (not student finance) and travel expenses and I'm shitting myself. Maybe I'm worrying too much.
