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.

Podrick - These husbands on 200k. They are in some sort of junior, trainee position, non? I imagine that once they are professionally qualified they will then start to earn some real money?

£500 travel not a joke, Singingbear

You could pay more rent and live more centrally but cut down on travel by walking...

Bocca fair point
Their trousers are indeed at half mast compared to the trousers of ideal man Simon Cowell et al

hmmm, i know people who spend 200 a month travelling into london for one person. let alone any other travel

What;s this? HAs Xena been on moaning about the recession?

is this a thread about a thread?

Can't imagine Xenia moaning about anything. If she needed more money she would take on a night shift doing extra lawyer work. Sleep is for wimps (like me )

As Anna8888 rightly points out my proposed budget could even be re-configured and yet still provide for a few luxury items.

Choices. £200k gives you choices.

And if you take up my suggestion, you won't have to go to the gym either because all the walking will burn off loads of calories and tone up your bum and thighs.

So you will have more time and money for shopping in designer boutiques (for which you will be very conveniently located)

Anyway, genuine sympathy to all people who feel the pinch and a very goodnight to all

PS as you have probably all guessed by now I am in fact aka ER2, considerably richer than thou yet utterly in touch, man.

Oh ffs

Where is the housekeeper, the maid, the butler, the nanny the aupair and the fucking driver in your budget?

Hmm?

WHere??

In the dolls house where they belong oh BennyansdJoon of little faith

pmsl @ katiedd, wants him goodlooking too.

Eh hello, personal trainer? School fees? Foreign cleaner? Au pair? Gym fees? Manicure and Shoe allowance? 7k I don't bloody think so scoff scoff scoff.
And as for 1500 rent, where do you live??
Get a load of
this ,good shopping dahling

and that doesn't even have room for the help, what is a girl to do.

and that doesn't even have room for the help, what is a girl to do.