To be so annoyed at this woman's financial incompetence

It’s obviously a wind up article like all those Dm ‘Femail’ type ones. Like the Samantha Brick one from years ago, the interfering MIL-all decided to trigger people! Feel sorry for her that she’s reduced to selling herself for click bait.

A sensible car would save her quite a lot. And we all love a bit of downtime, but managing her garden and her domestic stuff too could see here save a fair wad.

Mind you, if you can get over the indignant rage, she's got a point. £100K is the new £40k in terms of the lifestyle it brings. If she threw childcare costs in the mix with all that there'd be nout left.

Plenty of people would love to earn £100k but with housing costs and childcare, £100k isn't the promised land people think it is. And if you earn more you start to lose your personal allowance, falling into the 60% tax trap, and have the childcare cliff edge. Progressive taxation and the freezing of thresholds has really clobbered the middle - high earners.

Someone earning £100k salary should have a high standard of living and should not need to take in a lodger. The lady in the article does spend excessively on some things e.g. food, but it shouldn't be a race to the bottom. When I was a kid 20 years ago, a £80k salary would buy you a 6 bed house in my parent's village and still have holidays/cars etc. Now with £100k salary it's a 4 bed house provided someone has died and left you a £200k inheritance.

This. I somehow manage not to, and my life is none the worst for it!

It's two dogs. But they do add up especially if you're needing dog walkers or kennels or they have medical issues. I currently have my first dog and I'm amazed at how much he costs.

The article is mainly about the fact it is more expensive living as a single person than with another adult - which is true. However, someone who is on £100,000 is very privileged with their income. This lady does have a lot of places she could cut down (eg food, the accomodation she chose, car, holidays) which a lot of people don't have. I think her main thing is that she was used to a two income household before her divorce and needs to recut her cloth now.

Well, firstly this is clickbait

This woman complaining about her £100000 salary not being enough could save £2100 per month if she bought a sensible car, didn't have dogs/a cleaner and took in a lodger.

I think the others are fair - how is she spending £650 a month on dogs?! - but saying that someone on £100k a year needs to take in a lodger to live comfortably seems to me to prove her point?

Next week's headline - 'mumsnet trolls made my life hell says financially illiterate high earner'

Problem is someone on £100000 with a sensible car, mortgage & food bill makes for a boring article. I am wondering how a dog can cost £650 a month though?

It’s just ragebait.

People can have really disordered relationships with money for varied reasons. Be glad you don't and stop seeking out aggravation.

Stop reading the daily mail and the telegraph - problem solved!