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 ?

Luck I suppose. I sort of blew up my life whilst doing my PhD and got into bit of debt, and before I could finish writing up I had to take a job with a company with quite a poor reputation (and which everyone in the faculty recommended me against). The company was high pressure and there was a high turnover but it was an excellent apprenticeship to the industry and I developed quickly. Then we were bought by a large American corporation and I got more exposure and development opportunities. Eventually I was headhunted and made a success of the project that I was brought in for.

£2,000 a week?? If any normal person needs that to live on then there's something seriously wrong with their budgeting.

I'm sure I could live on that op.

People who have money don’t think like this.

£50 a night for Uber Eats. That’s too much processed food for someone who was motivated to earn lots.

30 cigarettes a day? No one has time for that if they want to actually do work or live past 50.

£500 on M&S - since it’s just lunch & dinner then no need even if eating salmon & steaks.

If you’re rich you wouldn’t get scratch cards. Not a £10 a week, never mind £200.

Not even the best make up influencer would spend close to £15,000 on make up. There just isn’t enough face to go around,

It’s like an 18 year old stoners idea of how rich people would live.

Alot of fun sponges on this thread!

If I had that much spare each week I'd

Hire a cleaner
Kit out my son's room so it was cool/fancy
Donate to animal/wildlife charities
Build a personal library with a lovely garden outside
Get a dog
Learn to play the drums
Travel

To be honest I’d value more time over money.

My ex husband was like this. He wanted NO LIMITS. He was an explorative bastard who drank himself to death after I left.

limits are healthy.

I would hire a permanent driver or take taxis everywhere so that would be a lot of the 2k spent straight off. I would eat out most days and buy an expensive gym membership like David Lloyd. Definitely lots of clothes shopping. Keep improving the house. It sounds great to me.

At least she'll have loads of money for the WLI that she will probably need after living on unlimited MacDonalds and Nandos.

Why is everyone so butthurt on this thread! I mean if none of you want it then great, I'll take the 2k a week OP ;) let's see I think my wishlist would be:

• Massage every morning
• Daily bouncy blow dry
• Holidays all year
• A tutor to help me get fluent in a couple of languages

Not a lot really. Kids go to private school. That's 60k min between them. Dh and son sail, 24k a year. DD and I ride 24k. We like to get a new car each every 5 years, because of hobbies these are Rangies 160 every 5 years so 30k per annum. The dogs. Cats. We put a lot into pension, and I'm insurance life, health etc. All that before food and clothes, treats and luxuries is 150k ish a year so 3k a week. Your estimate is low.

Jeezo 😱

We have over 1k a week to live on after bills…we don’t live like this AT ALL…you have to think long term unfortunately.
although I do buy whatever I want in the food shopping…at Lidl!
never have to think twice if the dc need new shoes etc
we save 2.5k a month also.

wise up

It isn't fun though. It is a goady thread. There's people out there who are genuinely struggling and you create this thread, that will only make people feel shit!

Ordering Uber Eats daily and having "easy" food options wouldn't make my quality of life any better than it currently is.

In fact it would be awful because I would quickly get bored of the takeaway options, even though I'm in a city, and would probably feel ill from greasy food.

Maybe quality of life is something a bit more than this?

Cooking a good meal for yourself/ family can be rewarding in a way that you will never get from Uber Eats😅

Easy to spend that kind of income on travel.

I would say you are, yes.

But it’s just a silly fantasy thread. If you find threads like this difficult, then don’t open them.

You’ve missing out on holidays - poor budgeting!

Suspending reality and imagining what if i had 2K a week after bills.

I dont think i could spend 2k a week. I dont want to eat out every day. I am lucky that I do buy pretty much whatever groceries I want without leaving items I would like behind and even with that rarely spend more than 300 a week in supermarkets. My kids are in school so we cant go away every week, or even weekend with matches etc. I wouldn't want to either. There are 2 or 3 things I'd like to buy for my house but that's that. We don't need more clothes. That just creates work sorting and getting rid of other ones.
The only things I can think I could spend 1.5K more than I do on are having a daily cleaner to include washing (and honestly this would be more hassle than not, I currently have no cleaner and don't spend hours cleaning) and hire a driver and car to take my kids to their activities of an evening so I'm not out every night (not in UK so kids activities are typically between 6 and 9pm) and could stay home watching TV. But this would get boring i think.

I play set for life as I think £10k a month is the perfect amount.

But YABU as no one needs £2k a week.
My household monthly income is £2k a month and although it’s very tight, if I had even just £1k more a month I’d be laughing.

If it’s just to splurge then why not £5k a week why £2k

Don't be silly.

So after mortgage, council tax utilities, internet/phones, insurance & pension we have about £1k to spend a week. Things we buy regularly

Shopping £150/week
Cleaner, window cleaner & gardner £60/week
Kids classes £85/week over year
Memberships/regular donations £25
We budget £100/week to just spend without much thought - things like a coffee, drinks, work lunch out, takeaway, cinema visit, kids tickets to trampoline park or similar
Add on petrol/transport tickets/car maintenance & a monthly meal out and that’s half our weekly money spent.

Other half we save (short term for Christmas/birthday/holidays/more expensive theatre trips, mid term for home repairs, next car, new furniture etc and long term for helping kids out as adults/retirement)

If we suddenly had an extra £1k a month I’d save half long term and the other half I’d split between short term saving for holidays and buying lots of theatre tickets/extra museum
memberships as that’s the one place I really feel like we compromise.

Can I be considered please? Tia x 😂

We have about 3k a month, just under for a family of 6. We eat well, dress well, have uk holidays but it’s all done very frugally. The cost of food is ridiculous these days.