Watch me spend my entire monthly January wages

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I've never gone line-by-line before in my bank statement before

Just thought you'd all want a nosey 👀

Food: £337.15 (mid week top-ups)

Coffees/cafes: £181.30

Lunches and dinners out: £242.43

DC: £4,550 (this includes school fees broken down to a monthly number, lunches, weekends with DC like Harry Potter world as an example, kids activities like gymnastics etc, paid for by term but broken down to the month)

Beauty: £1301.20 (waxing, Botox, hair colour, etc)

Shopping: £216.39 (new ballet slippers for DC etc)

Misc. £545.27 (things I had no idea what they were on the line item)

Private dental work: £981.63

DH pays rent, bills, running the cars/petrol, insurances, date nights, nights out, holidays, savings, weekly "big shop" and everything else.

I'm picturing an Amandaland type character......

Stealth boast.
No one likes bragging tbh. Oh, and MN isn't TikTok. "Watch me..." What nonsense.

Op pretty shit boast
They don’t save
they rent

@Spottyshirt boasting that they can spend that much. Like TikTok crap.

I didn't say it was impressive.

So in other words you earn more in one month than some make in 6 months so can spend on whatever you want.

lucky you- i just used a £2.50 voucher to get a Tesco meal deal for £1.10- that’s my weekly treat.

I like it that you own the fact you’re privileged and earn a ton 💅 good for you.
Posting expenditure is slightly cringe but it gives people something to froth about I suppose.

Watch me not give a toss about a stranger's finances!

The comments on the renting... the UK is not our home. We are not citizens here and are planning at some point to move abroad again.

Beauty: £1301.20 (waxing, Botox, hair colour, etc)

How much botox did you get?! 😀

Not even a stealth boast 😄

I spend £25 per month on my nails and view that as quite decadent!

What an utterly bizarre and pointless thread! 😂

😄

But you’re still renting op
and you’re not saving

sounds a bit precarious to me

Yes, I'm not saving. Doesn't mean DH isn't.

Food: £337.15 (mid week top-ups)

Coffees/cafes: £181.30

Lunches and dinners out: £242.43

DH does weekly "big shop

This is a wind up, how much you spending on food.

So a standard month really. Looks pretty similar to mine. Just a different currency.

What's your job OP?

Why are you renting on that kind of money . Your own home should be a top priority.

Finance

Boring brag 🥱😴

Any chance of a photo of your face? I'm curious what that kind of money spent on beauty would get me...? 😄

I’m guessing you don’t have any money left for self awareness in that budget

Yes, I'm not saving. Doesn't mean DH isn't.

And this is where you reveal DH earns 50k a month & saves 30k into different investment pots 🥱

A typical mumsnetter who earns over 100k! Would I heck be renting on that money. I'd say goodbye to botox and get a mortgage.

I thought that until I saw the rest. The coffee is nothing compared with everything else.

I know it's tough for renters and the OP is far from typical, but in a lot of cases it's not as hard as people make out to qualify for a mortgage or save for a deposit, especially outside the SE.

Obviously prices won't go back to what they were 20 years ago, but it seems that, for many, they're not prepared for their lifestyle to look like it was then either.