To think you actually need 2k a week to live on?

[TheIcyAquaFawn]

Post bills/house etc?
For a brilliant quality of life?

Perfect week stuff as in fun activities, no budget. Food shopping throwing everything in the trolley - lots of easy food. Being able to order Ubereats whenever you fancy ?

Id redecorate the house and spend school holidays visiting giant pandas. I would also go skiing every year. As for the other £2000 a month, id just feel guilty.

Just out of curiosity as I can't figure it out - how are u getting 86k? There's 52 weeks per year so 52 * 2 =104k? I feel like I'm missing something 😂

Why?

I'd be feeling pretty flush if I had £2k a year for fun stuff.
Scrap that, even £1k per year would be about £1k more than I have got.

I think it would become a bit boring and also really time-consuming doing a £500 shop and then having to deal with all the waste.

However, I would spend a lot on taxis because I don't like driving and it makes me not want to go anywhere. So I'd get a taxi to the coast every weekend (1 hour away), probably eat out a couple of times a week and I would buy a massive freezer and fill it with those really good quality frozen ready meals from the local farm shop (FieldGoods not Cook). Not sure what else because I like buying my clothes from Vinted and I have very little space for anything new. But then I'd have a bigger house if I had that much spare money. But the real luxury I having the money in the bank and knowing that you'll never have any financial worries.

That was my thought and I'm absolutely terrible at maths 🙃

Well it's actually £104k right?

If l had 2K a week to live on. I would spend it all oh sex and drugs and Rock n Roll

And just waste the rest.

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Living in a dream world, my monthly take home is just over that amount

If I was loaded I could definitely spend more 😂

Wrong. As this is post mortgage and bills - so a lot more than that.

Yikes - you save 94,000 per year?

we lived very frugally and it led me to so much stress I ahd a catastrophic breakdwon that nearly killed me and changed ours ives irrevocably.

you may drop down dead tomorrow and thee are no pockets in a shroud

No intention of taking kids, maybe not even DH.

Its a lot more than that - £100k would be higher rate tax, lose personal allowance etc so would work out circa £1325 a week - for £2k take home you need about £150k (let me know where to get this job please 😜)

I can’t believe some of the miserable people on this thread! It’s just a fantasy, folks. Chill out!

I am skint as an absolute bastard but I love to dream too OP.

I could totally spend 500 a week in M&S, just get the posh steak and the most expensive wines! Nice little weekends away travelling first class. Expensive clothes and makeup. If it’s 2k a month for life (which it is in MY fantasy), there would be no need to save.

Bollocks to being sensible, that’s what real life is for.

I make it £104K.

I don't think I'd know what to spend £500 a week on for treats. 2K is more than our household income for the month... We get takeaways and have clothes and haircuts.

@TheIcyAquaFawn I would say even more!! I would want at least 10 grand a month for holidays! So mine would be 4k a week!

id say 1k a week for me, but yes to be able to truly live then its needed

Are you a bit of bullshitter because what job are you claiming pays you £23k a month! Nobody would pay anybody that kind of money per month! I get sick of these silly brag posts on Mumsnet! You haven't gone from earning a pittance to earning nearly £280k a year! And you claim to be fleecing your ex as well as having £23k a month salary! Were you also trying to claim that £3600 month was a pittance? How could tyres etc cripple you as permanent high earner! £3600 is a high salary that most people don't earn!

She means 23k a year

Yup, I read that as 2,300 a month lol, prob autoincorrected!

Am I the only one who can't/doesn't daydream about these things? It would just me make me a bit sad! 🤣

Yeah we take home just over 1700 per week on our basic month and our income last year was over 140k so that’s about right

Oh right, disposable. Well to take home that £220k. £128k post tax. Bills £26k. Existing the mortgage to be high on that take home