to think £1,000 per month

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disposable income after all household bills have been paid, including mortgage, groceries, petrol, is a good amount of money!

It is a lot of money.

For a family or for a single person?

Either way, I guess it depends on what you are used to.

depends on personal circumstances doesn't it?

Care to expand op?

I'd be chuffed, but I have low standards.

Whether the person you are referring to is BU depends on their own circumstances.

It's a lot of money!!

It's a huge amount of money to me. I've never had that much even go into my bank account every month. Let alone have it 'left over'.

it sounds ok but depends on lifestyle and if you save before saying you have 1k spare or what other things crop up like say paying £15o for swim lessons or you need to spend £400 on a set of tyres etc.

That's for a family of six after all extra curricular activities have been paid for.

It would be tight for us for five.

Oh, hang on, it doesn't have to include the weekly shop? It's loads then.

It sounds fine to me. No very expensive holidays etc.

sounds ok. are you saving money for car insurance annual fee/car service/ weekends away, do you save each month or do things come out each month and then you've 1k after all those things...

why are you asking - are you trying to curb spending or being nose !

nosey!

That is an extremely good disposable income!!

Ah I've completely misread. So all activities, food and petrol are already counted? It's masses.

We have about 1500 a month after bills and that pays for food, petrol and activities and it's plenty.

If that's purely disposable income after everything else has been paid for (bills, food, travel, all regular payments of any sort) then, yes, it's pretty good. But it's still relative, to number of kids, area lived in etc.

Why do you ask?

Lots of families only earn that much a month.

Drip, drip, dripperty drip.

For how many people exactly?

I'd love to have that as purely disposable.

That's about what we have once everything has been accounted for along with a separate fund for holidays, birthdays, car insurance etc so it's about £1000 disposable income but that doesn't include savings. We save what happens to be left at the end of the month which can vary between £200-800! I don't think it's loads but is ok I guess. If I worked full time we would have £2000 disposable which would be lovely but I would rather have the time.

That's for a family of 4

If it is pure 'fritter' money eg meals out, cinema etc then it's a lot of money.

If you are trying to build up savings, trying to pay for a holiday, buy clothes for a family etc I think it's pretty low.

That's a massive amount if it's just for entertainment, going out, holidays, presents etc.

You don't NEED much at all after household bills have been paid, including mortgage, groceries, petrol.