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 ?

Very much depends on your lifestyle and how you choose to spend it really. In London it probably would just see you through!

I retired recently, spent the first 18mnths on projects. Now I’m enjoying doing absolutely nothing. After working hard for nearly 40 years it is the best feeling. Time is so much more important than money, the ability to just potter or read or go for a walk when the sun is out is so much more valuable than retail therapy or eating out. I am a planning a few protects this summer but just enjoying not having to work to live.

I focussed on good retirement planning and not wasting money as I now have a comfortable pension and do not have to worry about budgeting to heat the house or feed us. We can afford to eat out when we want and to enjoy holidays and short breaks. But when life is one big holiday there is no real urge to travel.

I’m from the generation where instant gratification was not a thing. We’ve worked hard and waited to be in the position to be financially stress free and it’s worth it.

You would have been far better off starting your post by saying that a friend of yours mentioned she has £2,000 a week to spend on pretty much what she likes and wondering what choices people on this thread would make with it?

That way you would have avoided the predictable Mumsnet accusations of being a council estate chav.

You sound like great fun and I like your style on this thread!

To answer your question, I'd love a food delivery each week from a really good supermarket and maybe someone to come in for a few hours a week and make us some meals to heat up. I'd also love a cleaner and a gardener. I would buy all my knitwear from Brora and as many books as I could read. And I would take lots of long weekends away and stay in nice hotels.

The rest I would either save or give away to my favourite charities.

I would really enjoy having that kind of money to spend.

I don't really think I would be able to spend anything close to that in a week. Usually after work I don't want to go anywhere, and I wouldn't eat out more than once a week for health reasons. It would still be lovely to have though - I would probably just accumulate most of it and spend it on travel and son's uni and a house deposit.

Rage bait. Clearly bored.

It’s a Mr Micawber equation though. Depends on your outgoings and expectations.
If you can’t earn enough to cover your dream lifestyle, tone it down a bit so that you can afford to at least live. Make a list of what is important, and stick to that, instead of unrealistic expectations of false nails, eyelashes and Botox - those are in the bottom 1% of realistic expectations!

We have had about 5 years where this was our income. It’s not usually that much. Big holidays sort of about 10k and then savings. DH spent about £800 one holiday on extras. In 35 years of working I had a cleaner for 25 years of those. I have never ordered an Ubereats in my entire life. But it is nice going in to M&S and buying lots of food. We saved so we could retire early.

If I had £2k a week, I think I’d just live on holiday 😂

I love this thread.

I'd probably get evening massages to unwind! A full time nanny, full time housekeeper, personal trainer... And furnish my house with very expensive furniture.

Just a full time nanny where I live is £5k a month though... So damn, I've already overspent

How very classy

Thinking about rich house poor house , often the surplus’s cash /budget is £2k a week so for some happens

for most it didn’t and how can you spend that every week

I take home a little more than 2k GBP per week. We live well within our means but it is nice to feel secure with a robust bank balance and to be able to buy things we want when we want.
Ten or fifteen years ago I had nowt and a new tire, car or home repair would be a crippling expense. I am glad to be out of that situation

Of course this would be great.
And you could tavel when you wanted etc
I only wish

I would have my hair styled every week by the lovely hairdresser I've used for years (go every 12 weeks atm). I would have my nails done every 3 weeks, a weekly massage, and I would stop using supermarkets and would only buy from local independent businesses where welfare of the animals and our environment was paramount.

So would I. Obviously in fantasy land we don't need to work or have responsibilities like pets or DC so I'd just move from place to place renting apartments in cities so I could go out to eat, visit museums and other attractions, go to spas, read, walk and swim, that sort of thing.

I wouldn't sit at home while some poor sod brings me burgers and only leaving the house to buy scratchcards, clothes and stuff for the house.

There is a current thread about privilege you might want to read.

I can't even spend half this a month and still max my ISA out. People with these kinds of unrealistic expectations will never really be happy - Life isn't about things and money.

Of course the title and things are wrong but OP clears it up within a few posts so I’ll play. Thank you to everyone I steal ideas from.

200 housecleaner
300 groceries (about double my current)
80 uber eats (sometimes burgers sometimes acai bowls and everything in between)
25 uber rides
25 new book or buy music or something like that
150 spa or hair, will rotate.
50 overpriced pilates
150 sit down meal
200? Babysitting to do the above (do I need more here? Never hired one)
200 travel fund
100 sephora or clothes or supplements
100 kid activity
20 subscriptions and stuff we already do or have fund
300 travel fund
100 house fund (but I want this higher?)
oh god I am going to have to pretend I’ve saved from retirement from one of those bill categories not included here. And DH should get some spending money but I’ve spent it all!

So really I need about 5k a week to fully splash out! Currently am on a no outside food plan to save $160 for a music player for the kids, and then am realizing that if I do it again after I’ve got the music player I can save for an overpriced blanket I want…so of course it could be fun to spend on all of those things without thinking! And Sephora is just for my birthday these days- I did have a phase in one of my early jobs where we’d go together on pay day and each spend 30-50!

Hope more people join in!

‘Need’ is not the same thing as ‘brilliant quality of life’.

I misread that as 2k a month! 2k a week is a fortunate.

Is this post written by a child...?

OP this is like that old movie ‘Brewsters Millions’ where someone is challenged to spend loads of money but have nothing to show for it after the specified time. Was it $1 million in a month or something?
Your spending would be great for your local economy but you’d probably need another food waste bin from the council.
Anyway. If I’m not allowed to give up work I’d spend loads of it on people to do all the jobs. Maybe a weekly hair appointment and a personal trainer and someone to drive me to work.
Actually maybe I’d pay rent for my DC. £8k a month would cover three flats in London. 😀

Hate to break it to you but £86k is not £2k a week to live on and neither is £96k. More like £1k.

Why do people write such nonsense?

Even in London 2k a week food and fun money after bills is a lot.

@CharlieRight these posts intrigue me, how do you go from nothing to 200k a year in ten years?!