How much do you spend on yourself per month?

[MrsRandy]

Excluding food shopping, bills, rent/mortgage.

How much do you spend on yourself per month on beauty, meals out, takeaways, clothes, going out for the day/evening etc.

Do you have a budget?

Clothes make up about £350 a month more if I get my hair done.

Just on myself? Not sure! Probably more than I realise as I fritter away small things.

DS2 has an after school prep club. I sit in Costa and have a cup of coffee and maybe one of those wafer things- that's about £6.00

I don't do any paid-for activities or hobbies at all.

I would say once every weekend when i am shopping for groceries I will stop by the pub on the way home. We have a real dive pub that i like. A glass of wine is £5.40.

I get my hair cut once a year just before the summer holidays- but am thinking i need to do it more often.

I tried to buy a new clothing item from a non-supermarket shop once a month as I really needed new clothes. I would say circa £50, although yesterday I bought some soft lounge-style pants from Amazon for £28.00.

My big expense is saving for our annual holiday. I put away £300 a month for that, and tbh that is basically almost all my disposable income that is not otherwise accounted for. That's a family thing, but i view it as 'my' thing because I love going abroad.

66 and retired here.
£35 every 3 weeks nails
Facials £85 every 6 weeks
£60 to 100 on hair every 5 weeks
£60 gym monthly membership
£32 a month pilates
6 weekly pedicures, podiatrist every 3 months
Physio as and when
We eat out at least 4 times a month £500
We are comfortably off in retirement and go on lots of breaks. Spend a lot on food too.
I've earned it. We dont budget.

Now at 50 with adult kids- DH n I get 625 each ‘pocket money’
We have another pot for anything we do together and holidays.
Cars, petrol, mobiles gifts for the kids all out different pots also, so that 625 is really for nails, hair , lashes, wine at home, going out with friends and any breaks/spa days I chose to save for with my sisters or daughters.
Mind you I tend to put a lot of that through the food shop account and it doesn’t even register with DH so I’m lucky

When kids were little £0 pocket money tbh

Yarn. Lots of yarn. Yarn needles. And yarn. (I've had to cut back , though I could insulate the whole loft currently!)

Up grade on basic food (and it really was basic back in the seventies.) Chocolate.

Takeaway on holiday and a couple of times a year.

Clothes and shoes are practical as required.

Holiday cottage. (Don't get the cheapest but not really expensive either, pay more to be nearer coast.)

Very little - hair cut and colour is £65 every 7 or 8 weeks and that pretty much cleans me out.

A tenner on clothes (Vinted) maybe 3 times a year.

Don't get nails done or anything else, much as I'd love to.

Skincare: stocked RIGHT up on Temple Spa for moisturiser and eye cream a couple of years ago when I stopped selling it. Now buy when I see it cheap on Vinted! Lasts ages and probably works out about £40 a year.

Cheapest make up (and eye makeup remover) go in with food shop.

About £200