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 ?

Would love £2k a week, there is loads I couldn't do with my children when they were younger, even just a saturday out to the cinema and mcdonalds, I feel really guilty about the childhood I gave them, we didn't have much money. I am in a better position now but that's irrelevant because most of them have moved out.

I earn £2.5k a month and it's a struggle.

Wouldn’t be healthy. How much is good health worth to you? 🤷‍♀️

We have £4,250 spare per month after all bills and before savings. We put about £1,750 of that into savings (including savings for holidays that we spend within the year).

I can put whatever I want in the trolley, get take aways whenever I want them. I can’t have everything I want but we don’t budget for food ever, and only really think “let’s not go out” if we’ve spent a lot on other things that month.

So no, I don’t think you need anything like £2k per week to live that way. £2.5k for the month is plenty for us.

Yes. We actually earn about 2k a week spare, but we save the vast majority of it.

I can confirm that it is very nice to never worry about money though. I have to give my head a wobble when I think, "oh no, £400 on the car", when I only leave £250 in my account, except that I have a car repairs account as well as all the other savings etc.

People say money can't buy you happiness have never had enough money to find out. The car breaking down is a non-event to me except a bit of grumbling, because I can ALWAYS afford the bill, the taxi instead and an entire new car too without really thinking about it.

I'm not saying this to brag, I've just seen a few posts about money not buying happiness lately and I think they're incredibly naive.

I’ll bite, as we’re a £2.5k a week family. No, I don’t feel like can throw everything in the trolley when food shopping, we have a budget. Yes, we do have a fair few fun days out but can’t afford it every week. Maybe once a month. We currently struggle to take one family abroad holiday a year.

ETA: just realised you mean after bills. Then yes, I agree with you!

If I had that, I wouldn’t be thinking about ubereats and food, I’d be planning my trips to Hawaii and Tahiti.

That's just sickening waste.
We do have that much money spare. We didn't get it because we lived as you describe.

Our big discretionaries are opera/theatre, dh's golf, and now our ds is living abroad, more travel. We eat incredibly well for less than £200 a week.

We have no money worries and can buy/do basically what we choose in a week. However we’re both at work, kids at school etc so we wouldn’t have time to spend anywhere near that amount! We spend about £250 a week on the grocery shop, maybe £200 on eating out etc at the weekend, add in £100 ‘extras’ and we’re nowhere near your £2000! None of us smoke though, and we generally prefer home cooked food to take aways. We do include 2 nice bottles of wine in our groceries to share over the weekend.

Indeed, the struggle is real.

If you spent £500 a week on food in M&S plus ordered takeaways, you’d be throwing a lot of food away! Even in M&S £500 of food is a large amount of food… unless you’re a family of 10.

op has posted on aibu and she is being unreasonable.

Good for you

I’m also wondering how cluttered a house would be if you spent £300 a week on ‘make up and house stuff’ plus £350 a week on clothes!

Indeed. More expensive retailers are available, but you can only go SO expensive before you're throwing food away.

Personally the nicest thing is lots of good quality veg and meat but also the TIME to cook them properly.

Though I can't imagine how much slap your have to wear constantly to get through £300/week.

Maybe it depends where you live and what things you do for fun, we don’t spend £2k a week but we don’t shop with a budget, have whatever days out/meals out we fancy, don’t feel restricted etc. However I have 2 very young children so our days out are more soft play/pub lunches than West End shows and dinner at the Ritz these days😂

This thread is just ridiculous and infuriating rather than lighthearted. You dream of spending £880 on food a week, buying cigarettes and why would you be buying scratch cards? So you could win more to spend on food and fags?? You’d be better getting very expensive health cover to sort out the issues caused by obesity from all that food and the multiple issues caused by the smoking.

Infuriating 🤣

We spend double that on average per week. Definitely not having daily blowdrys or doing £200 of scratch cards though 😂

£4000 a week not including mortgage/bills etc?

I think it's very sad that you think the perfect life is walking round a supermarket, throwing "easy food" (presumably ready meals/microwave dinners and other crap) into your trolley, being able to buy takeaways every day/meal and buying as many "ciggies" as you want. For a spare £2000 a week I'd want a lot more out of life than that. Meanwhile, in the real world, that's actually round about the amount per month we have to live on, full stop.

I think most people with that amount of money don't buy more stuff than others, just nicer stuff. So rather than creating a food mountain of steak, McDonald's and Nandos (which would make you feel unwell quite quickly) it would be daily high quality food with occasional meals out at fancy restaurants. Expensive wine and whisky rather than cheaper alternatives. Expensive hobbies (golf/horses/sailing/skiing), gym membership or home gym equipment, latest tech, sit-on lawnmowers, very nice clothes and shoes/makeup/bath and shower products etc. Personal grooming - hair, nails, hair removal etc.

I'm lucky enough to be able to buy any food I want to without thinking too hard, but I would struggle to spend £500 a week in M&S! It's the 2 of us and a large dog who eats fresh meat. What are Ubereats?

And weight loss jabs after 6 months of this diet presumably

@GalaxyJam Oh no, including bills - I missed that.

I was going to say, that’s pretty good going!