Meet the Other Phone. Child-safe in minutes.

Meet the Other Phone.
Child-safe in minutes.

Buy now

Please or to access all these features

Cost of living

Stretching your budget? Share tips and advice to discuss budgeting and energy saving here. For the latest deals and discounts, sign up for Mumsnet Moneysaver emails.

Single life is expensive!

76 replies

Lodgeornot · 03/03/2023 22:29

I just need a whinge and rant, sorry.

Just sick of my colleagues and friends not understanding that my household income is less than half theirs because I'm on my own. I know there's two mouths to feed in a couple and other things you'll obviously need more of but I don't share my mortgage payment, I get 25% off council tax not 50%, I don't have a husband earning a higher salary than my own low end public sector wage giving a more than healthy take home between us. My income is it.

And they've all gone straight from living with parents to partners so they'll never get it. Just argh!

There's so much more but it would never end and potentially outing. I love em, but fuck fuckety fuck off with your cluelessness!

OP posts:
ZeldaWillTellYourFortune · 08/03/2023 23:09

SleepingRedSnowBootsAndThePea · 08/03/2023 20:46

That's true of all tax thresholds, it should all be done on household income. Why should single people get half the tax free personal allowance, oay higher rate tax and lose chuld benefit at half the income, lose their personal allowance and tax free childcare and 30 hours childcare at half the income? It's ridiculously unfair.

Couldn't agree more!

New posts on this thread. Refresh page