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58 replies

Fakedogdoesnotlookrealistic · 26/03/2026 09:55

Left until paid…likely tomorrow…this is a good month! usually have less by the end of the month
Both in good jobs-me-university educated, professional occupation. Dh-college educated, managerial position.
We have a mortgage, car, one child, piano & dance lessons, no overdraft or credit cards, but a couple of quite small loans, we never have anything really left by the end

Is it just us?

How much do you have left just before pay day

OP posts:
TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 26/03/2026 18:47

I've had about 83p for the last week.

CarbGoading · 26/03/2026 19:09

Frangle · 26/03/2026 13:06

I dont see it as that insensitive compared to the ones where people are on over £100k and complaining! I'm in the same boat as op and our income is at / just below the national average so I'm sure its very normal?

Exactly this. I know i could stop paying DCs dance and swimming classes (my eyes water every time I see them go out), but they enjoy it, and my mum gave me dance classes and violin lessons even though she was a single mum. I could stop paying for both Netflix and Disney+, but normal TV is rubbish. All my clothes come from Vinted. I don't run a car. I thought growing up that a middle management wage would be amazing, but it gives me only a bit of wriggle room to give DC nice things after bills.

Statsquestion1 · 26/03/2026 19:41

TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 26/03/2026 18:47

I've had about 83p for the last week.

can I ask? Do you have all food and fuel for the week? Is this after savings?

mellongoose · 26/03/2026 20:00

RhaenysRocks · 26/03/2026 18:45

Oh give over..how unnecessarily dramatic. Not every thread on a social media chat site has to be life and death and showing constant awareness of all the possible effects ...can people with one child not complain about secondary infertility because those with none will be upset..how tone deaf! Can people with difficult parents not complain because they aren't dead? Its perfectly reasonable fir one sector of the population to have a conversation that is in a different sphere to another.

Exactly this. Everyone is different and they have different worries.

FWIW I have about £120 and don’t get paid until Tuesday. I think I’ve done ok this month but it’s not consistent. I’m paying off a smallish debt but no car finance. It will be better by next year I hope!

TakeTheCuntingQuichePatricia · 26/03/2026 20:01

Statsquestion1 · 26/03/2026 19:41

can I ask? Do you have all food and fuel for the week? Is this after savings?

Don't need fuel. Food is a bit back of the fridge/random meals.
Savings? Haha if only

ETA. I thought you meant fuel for the car
Just realised you might have meant gas/electric. Gas ran out last night. So no more hot water until tomorrow. Just about had enough for a bath last night.

Dobequiet · 26/03/2026 20:55

Op burn the £50 immediately so that you don’t offend anyone.

CoralOP · 27/03/2026 12:28

HoskinsChoice · 26/03/2026 18:02

Oh bless you, you really don't understand do you, you could not be more wrong about me. This is not about me. This is about having the emotional intelligence to understand the trauma that others are going through. I would like to hope that the opening post is not written by a human because it lacks any humanity.

Why are you acting like a complete sarcastic dick?
There's nothing at all wrong with someone asking if other people have a low amount of money left at the end of the month.

By your logic no one in the developed world can have any money problems because they aren't living in a mud hut. Newsflash, people can talk about finances and feel worried about their situation EVEN when there's someone else worse off than them.
Now maybe go and do something positive with your day instead of having a go at someone for no reason (yes I understand I'm having a go at you but you were being a bitch so deserve it 😁)

Ninerainbows · 27/03/2026 13:54

There are some posters who would reply to a post saying "My mum slapped me in the face" with "At least your mum's alive, I'd give anything for my mum to be here to slap ME in the face".

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