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Original poster

To think its perfectly possible to manage

28 replies

Sparklysilversequins · 17/09/2013 00:14

On £700 a month after ALL bills and food etc are paid?

Because someone I know is dropping around like a wet weekend because that's all they will have.

So am I?

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Original poster
Sparklysilversequins · 17/09/2013 00:14

Drooping NOT dropping.

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timidviper · 17/09/2013 00:16

If it is after all bills and food then, of course, YANBU

Lj8893 · 17/09/2013 00:17

Yanbu!!!!

Some people have to survive on that including all thier rent and bills etc.

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Sparklysilversequins · 17/09/2013 00:17

Yep after ALL bills, rent, heating, weekly food budget etc.

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gintastic · 17/09/2013 00:21

I wish we had half that amount!

NatashaBee · 17/09/2013 00:22

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Birdsgottafly · 17/09/2013 00:23

What exactly have they got left to buy that they are panicking over?

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Sparklysilversequins · 17/09/2013 00:25

They won't be able to go on Holidays and Christmas will be a struggle apparently Hmm.

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Lj8893 · 17/09/2013 00:28

Who are these crazy people?! I want to give them a good shake!

MrsRajeshKoothrappali · 17/09/2013 00:36

£700 a month just on 'stuff'?

Shock

Oh, the poor, sad peasants.

Hmm

I don't have much more than that each month to cover everything.

Retroformica · 17/09/2013 09:11

Do they have kids clubs to pay for? Even if that's the case, they are laughing!

hippo123 · 17/09/2013 09:25

£700 after bills! We don't even have £70. Send her round here and she'll realise how lucky she is.

pictish · 17/09/2013 09:27

£700 disposable income!!

Who is this person? I am aghast!

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Sparklysilversequins · 17/09/2013 09:28

No, no kids clubs as yet though that will probably change over the next couple of terms. I don't get the drama, just think she's used to more and I suppose its difficult to make that transition.

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LookingThroughTheFog · 17/09/2013 09:28

Oh, bless their cotton socks!

HugAndRoll · 17/09/2013 09:28

For fuck sake that is more than my entire Christmas budget including 2 children. Christmas will be a struggle? Is she one of the families from 16 kids and counting because I could see her point if she was. If not yanbu.

LookingThroughTheFog · 17/09/2013 09:31

You are right though - it's hard to transition down. We've had to do it 3 times when it's been substantial sums of money (and countless times when there have been smaller, one-off sums we have to find from somewhere). The first time we were properly terrified that we wouldn't be able to make ends meet. If we'd have known then what little we'd be surviving on now, we would have fainted. These days, when we get some financial bad news, we tend to do a few hours of moping followed by 'we haven't starved yet...'

gamerchick · 17/09/2013 09:43

It does seem unreasonable when you have to do on less but hard to be sympathetic if you're already there and surviving. I've watched the husband go through it when he changed jobs and no longer has loads to spend on stuff. You do get used eventually.

It's amazing how money just gets wasted when you're forced to live on less and look back.

livinginwonderland · 17/09/2013 09:45

I barely have that before I've paid anything! YANBU.

expatinscotland · 17/09/2013 09:47

YANBU

SkinnybitchWannabe · 17/09/2013 09:58

YADNBU! I wish I had half that left after all our bills are paid!

noisytoys · 17/09/2013 10:05

YANBU we have that to cover bills each month but we used to be far better off and didn't realise how well off we were you just live to your means. The more you earn the more you spend.

sydlexic · 17/09/2013 10:12

It is perfectly possible to manage on £700 less than that.

Thewhingingdefective · 17/09/2013 10:22

My heart bleeds for them.

jungletoes · 17/09/2013 10:24

It's all relative imo.