Watch me spend my entire monthly January wages

[user263758918]

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.

You have all that money but rent?!!

Read ALL by the OP

£181 on boiled water 😂

Yeah, you’re right it was pretty nasty, it’s not jealousy though it is being completely baffled by the sum. The kid spend,, sure, the groceries, yeah, but I had no idea you could spend so much on skin and hair per month.

but you’re right it sounded mean of me. It was mean.

Watch me spend my entire monthly January wages…
Did you mean to post this on TikTok?

I'm on similar (higher than OP, but no DH to share the load with) and this just makes me glad DS isn't in private school. £4.5k on kids stuff makes me feel a little sick even if I can afford it.

It's funny OP - I agree with those saying 'read the room' etc, it's a bit crass to phrase it the way you did. BUT I'm addicted to the high spending Instagram reels pretty much broken down like yours. It's so weird what's sociably acceptable on different social media platforms.

It’s really grim there are so many nasty posts about the OPs looks and appearance. That’s bottom feeding.

Definitely bragging, but Christ knows why. It's like a kid in the school playground claiming their dad is bigger than other dads.

makes me realise that I am rich in other ways - having a fulfilling, although not high paying, career, being married to a man who still gives me butterflies, and being lucky enough to have four healthy children who bring me joy every single day.

They say beauty is only skin deep, but I guess in this case it's as deep as your pockets 💅

@user263758918 Baffled as to why you started this but a bit of advice- use the REPORT link and ask MNHQ to take it down.

You're not coming out of this at all well.

That is a horrific amount of frittering. I hope you're paying heftily into a pension. And have a mortgage due to be repaid in full at a reasonable age.

Your 'disposable' money is more than some people earn in a month.

I'm a relatively low earning person in a crappt rented house, but I'm not offended or finding it distasteful.

OP, it's a lot, but it's your money, and if you're happy, and your children have what they need, crack on and enjoy the money.

I suggest no one bothers to post here.

It's just an attention-seeking thread.

Who honestly cares what this person earns or spends?

£1301 on beauty!?

What ugly approach? You’ve got absolutely no idea how much her DH’s earns, how much they have invested, how much of their family money is saved every month.
Some people earn more so they spend more, big deal.
OP doesn’t have to live on pennies because other people aren’t as well off.

You lost me at nearly £200 on coffee and cake.

Why are you posting on it, multiple times, if you don’t care?

I read this as £130.... mind couldn't compute £1300 on beauty

Bully for you ! Are we supposed to admire or be in awe of you ?

I've no idea if anyone has changed their behaviour after reading a MN thread. Maybe there should be a study!

I don't see it as being any more condescending than any other piece of advice. Helping others is proven to be a cornerstone of happiness. And philanthropy should be the norm (IMHO).

I need tips from you. My groceries are about £100 more than yours and my eating out bill double and I am a single woman living alone. I am doing something incredibly wrong….!

This has to be a wind-up surely? I'm not a frugal misery guts who puts the heating on 15C and eats beans on toast while saving every last penny, but spending all that and not even covering main expenses or saving or...? I like to live comfortably (my current extravagance is not thinking about the cost of eggs as they have gone mad here) but not only would I not spend that, I certainly wouldn't post it like this!

I can't imagine paying for private schooling and not saving for a house deposit unless the situation were dire (e.g. child absolutely miserable at state school/not properly catering for disabilities and council unwilling to fund special school).

I think if someone is only here for a few years renting makes much more sense especially as you have the price to think about and the price in the currency you will be converting it to.

@knitnerd90 I can't imagine paying for private schooling and not saving for a house deposit unless the situation were dire

Its not dire, did you miss the bit where the savings come from her DH’s salary?

we don’t know what the starting point was though ?!