If you are feeling fed up about having little disposable income even though dh earns £200k I can help you

[Podrick]

You monthly take home is £10,330.

You should rent a nice family house for £1,500.

You should shop at Waitrose and allow £800 for food; household bills allow £500 and travel £500 per month.

With the remaining £7,300 per month you should spend this on holidays, clothes and little luxuries.

If you are still feeling quite hard up it would be helpful to move to an area where you will be surrouonded by people on a tiny fraction of your income.

Well a thank you would be nice

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Well I dunno, Podrick, £800 does not go that far at Waitrose...

well I would not go so far as to suggest that this income is high enough to pay for premium brand toilet paper in these credit crunching days

I am willing to take the challenge, where do I sign ???

Will the hubby earning £200k be attractive too or is that a step too far ?

podrick, you didnt include school fees

Surely on 200k you could afford to shop at m and s for food!!!

Oooh you can't live in a poor area, all those folk living on just £100k will steal all your stuff

Oh can I try this .

Katie, you've got the wrong end of the stick. It is not hubby's job to be attractive, it's your job to admire his manly qualities.

Hubby can be unattractive and dull with BO, you must remember you married him for his superior earning power

Oh. Bugger.
I want it all ................

Travel £500 a month!!!!! Come on podrick where do you live? Somewhere that buys a chauffeur and limo I suppose but let me tell you - in the real world £500 wouldn't pay for three trips to the hairdresser! I have particular needs which Alberto understands. Of course I would rather not got to Paris everytime but sometimes you just have to square your shoulders and get on with things and so I drag myself over there even though I'd much rather be at home counnting the twenties.

well KatieDD the hubby earning £200k is not earning ENOUGH, that is the main point. How attractive he is somewhat irrelevant, surely, I am not sure why you are asking that kind of question when what is really important is will he be able to finance a cleaner for you and whether you will feel embarrassingly penny pinched.

stitch it is a bit pointless thinking £200k is going to stretch to school fees when you can't afford quilted toilet roll

wow makes my shopping in aldi @£50 a week, my little house with a huge morgage and my clapped out car seem very bad

Come on now, hubby shouldn't just be financing a cleaner, one also needs a nanny, a cook and a gardener. It's important to have staff otherwise you might have to do something for yourself or look after your own children

great tips.will keep in mind.

I seriously spent £800 last month in Waitrose and DH does not earn 200k.
I do need help.

Well.

If they are really feeling so hard done by they are welcome to my income of £97 a week. I don't even have to work for it as I am just a single parent, albeit a deserving one who did not steal anybody's sperm and is paying her dues to society by volunteering and studying.

Joking aside it seems some women turn violent when the bread winner isn't bringing home enough bread.
I worry for some of the WAG types around here, I genuinely cannot see them or their offspring coping.
www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/financetopics/recession/3527803/Recession-When-the-money-goes-so-does-th e-toxic-wife.html

Am not sure you can actually afford to have children on £200k these days

If you do choose them then there might have to be unrealistic sacrifices

myredcardigan just buy shares in John Lewis AND PORK OUT

we spend about £200 on travel a month