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.

He doesn’t have to afford it, he gets anything you need for free.

No, but MNers who have experience of less rolling-in-it lifestyles could have some wisdom to offer - it can all go to shit surprisingly quickly if you have a health problem, unexpected bereavement etc and owning a property and having savings if you can are a good idea.

Blimey you don't earn a lot do you! Can't even afford to buy a second home...

OP's is not a huge salary in finance. Pretty usual.

I'm sorry but I don't see the point of your post.

What IS the point, please?

At first glance it appears you're boasting about how much you can spend.

A lot of it it unnecessary and self-indulgent. (coffees, meals out, beauty.)

It's in very poor taste if you appreciate that many posters are struggling.

You say the UK isn't your home, so that's why you rent. Presumably as you're not from the UK you've missed a lot about the average income, cost of living, etc.

Tone deaf post.

Although this was clearly intended as a brag about how much money you have, honestly you just sound utterly ridiculous. £1k on Botox when you’re renting.

Nearly £5k on school fees and trips out when you’re renting.

Madness!

You don’t sound like someone to be envious of (which is clearly your intention), you sound like you lack some basic brain cells.

It's a shame that you can't buy Class

If only people read the OPs update on why she is renting....shock horror!

Wow £2000+ of unnecessary spending you could save for a house deposit. Posting here great way to make yourself look stupid

Are you posting just to brag about how much you earn? Many people have to live for a month on the amount you spend just on beauty treatments let alone spending over £4000 a month on school fees. I don't begrudge anyone for being a high earner but I DO detest people who start unnecessary threads just to boast about their wealth.

£2000 on mostly junk, well done you?

Let this be a lesson to you OP. Earn your money and spend it however you want but if you are fortunate (and wasteful - double whammy) then keep it to yourself, because no-one's day is improved by reading this.

Personally I would be pulling my belt right in and saving for a deposit for a house. I can't imagine how depressing it would be to still be renting on a pension.
First thing me as a single parent and DS, now grown up, did in our 20's was save for a home.
Luxuries had to wait.

@Lentilweaver exactly. I'm a bottom feeder in my company and industry. There's people on far higher take home salaries than me.

She doesn't intend to buy.

They aren't UK citizens so will return to their home country at some point.

It's not a case of not being able to afford to buy.

Yes, why did you think we’d want to see?

It’s like looking at Marie Antoinette’s account book. Do you want us to explain why we can’t eat brioche?

What an odd thing to share. Odd and tacky tbh.

£1301 per month on beauty? I hope you're stunningly gorgeous now otherwise u wuz robbed!😄

What's the point of your post?

Boasting or what?

Who cares how you spend your income anyway.

We don't know you.

You're irrelevant to us.

Your monthly spend on beauty won't cover up your ugly approach to life, OP.

You spend my monthly income on your beauty regime 🙃

Fur coat nae knickers

How ugly would you need to be?

Bragging about how much money you have (and that is the entire point of this thread, there is no possible other explanation) is vulgar.

HTH

I never get that argument, though. If all housing in these countries were council/social housing, owned and run for everybody's benefit by the authorities, that would make sense; but it tends to mainly be a few people owning multiple houses, who are never told off for their obsession with buying property - whilst anybody renting one of those houses from them and wishing they could buy a house instead is told that they should jolly well be happy to rent their home and stop being so greedy and materialistic!