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.

So OP spends money on what everyone spends money on, but a bit more exaggerated.

Except she works in finance so probably has less quality family time than most MNers, and is a slave to botox and beauty treatments (probably a resulting pressure of the industry she is).

Nothing to envy here. I wouldn't trade my lifestyle for OP's in a million years.

That may be true but that doesn’t mean forefingers don’t save and invest in other assets. Not being obsessed with buying doesn’t mean spending every penny on drinking coffee, Botox and other crap simply because they are not obsessed with buying a house.

What happens if her husband leaves her and he apparently had all the savings in his name?

And this is someone who works in finance lol this is the dumbest financial post I’ve ever seen and it seems that OP is so proud of herself 😂

this is so fake and using not so subtle bragging to seek validation on the internet.

It’s like we’d prefer everyone to be earning a pittance and eeking out their bit of pension in Safeways buying meat pies in tins.
As soon as Mumsnet gets wind that people earn money and spend it (I.e literally how our economy works guys) they go mental.
We are so low aspiration. So much of the world is busting their arse trying to hustle and work and build their economy and here we throw out nasty misogynist insults from spite and insecurity at someone spending money. Making massive value judgements that she’s a horrible human (!) who’s never done anything kind? That’s not even a logical sense making argument, the two ideas are not linked!
It is absolutely embarrassing.

This is just a brag about how much disposable income you have, read the room

@Completelyjo I don't think people are finding it offensive that someone has different spending habits - I'm sure many people wouldn't approve of some things I spend my money on, but I don't start threads on an internet forum to tell the world about it. The thing that people are finding offensive is the completely unnecessary way that the OP is boasting about how she spends more money on things like Botox in a month than many people have to live on for an entire month. Why would any normal person brag about that? As others have said it's vulgar and insensitive at best.

This is so sad to read, we’ve become so addicted to wealth and greed and stuff and aligning how much money we have with our intrinsic value as people. I know of people, many, whose lives would be transformed by just the amount spent on coffees out or ‘beauty’ - is that what beauty actually is? Expensive treatments for an external shell?

Makes me want to cry actually, for the OP and for the mentality that leads to this.

Humble brag.

Extremely goady post in very bad taste in a cost of living crisis where so many people can barely afford food.

@Linens

If the economy only works by people spending on what I would see as junk and insecurity then the economy economy needs a rework

I knew this would upset the MN posters lol. My spending and saving habits are quite the opposite to the OPs but we all have different outlooks and priorities.

@user263758918 is there anything you would change?

But it is helping the economy so op crack on with the waxing as they aren’t making much out of me with my occasional immac ing of my moustache! We need people like this.

Watch me spend my entire monthly January wages

No thanks.

i don't want to see everyone starve themselves for internet points, actually. But to have that spending and brag about it says something about the OP and it isn't very nice. I think spending £1000 a month on beauty is silly, but it's not my money. To spend £1k and rush to tell everyone about it... that's another matter. It's like people who send their budgets into money diary columns knowing they'll get ripped into.

And what happens when it’s time to return to their home country when she spends every penny on Botox and coffee?

Or expats don’t need to save and invest for their future???

Quite a disgusting thread to post when there are loads of us who are barely making ends meet and can't afford to spend luxuries on themselves or get their kids new shoes.
I don't know what you wanted from this post Op.

I don't mind the sharing of lavish expenses – fair play if you work in finance – but the tone feels rather tone deaf. Eg, Misc. £545.27 (things I had no idea what they were on the line item) – It just screams, "Whoopsie! Silly me spunking half a grand on crap and not remembering!"

What are you wanting from this post a round of applause 👏?

My intention isn’t to suggest how you spend your money, it’s yours. However, I’m quite surprised you and your DH give not 1p to charity. I’m on far less and donate monthly to two charities. Not much, but a small contribution. I guess it goes to show that sometimes those with the least, give the most.

@wherearemypastnames 100%. The whole capitalist growth engine relies on more people using more resources to buy more things. Completely incompatible with the relaxed simple lifestyle that would have a huge impact on our happiness and completely incompatible with the any effort made to preserve the planet as a place for humans to live.
So on we grind. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.

Meh. I spend more than that on fags and gin and kittens.

👋🏻 to Pete Doherty 💙

OP, this kind of boasting is in very poor taste when so many people are struggling to even feed themselves at the moment.

What are you even trying to accomplish (either with this kind of spending, or by posting about it on here)?

Fairly nice lifestyle, no clothes shopping ? unusual.

however...

you RENT ?!!!

is that because you can't actually afford the school fees ?

I spend what OP spends on coffee per month on theatre and ballet tickets. Is that a better use for money, I wonder?

"Watch me ... blah blah blah"

WTF? this isn't bloody TikTok.