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Help me cut my cloth to its measure!

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arses · 11/09/2010 13:17

Hi

About to have my salary halved for flexible working and will now have childcare outgoing (but childcare vouchers and child benefit will cover about 70% of this).

What are good ways of reducing outgoings? We are already not going out etc, have cut clothes/toys/other purchases down to non-existent, looked at changing our telephone/broadband provider et..

but I know there are whizzy things you can do with transferring credit card debt and stuff like that, but am clueless about it?

We have about £2K on overdraft and about £2K on credit card at the moment. Mortgage is about £700 a month and we have no other debt. Transport costs of about £40 a week each We have yet to work out utilities exactly again, need to do this now really

Is there anywhere good to work out budget etc? So about £173 a month. I am not very good at this sort of stuff!

How much is reasonable to spend on food for two adults and a baby?

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solo · 12/09/2010 00:05

There are many many threads on this subject.

I feed myself, my 12yo that eats as much/more than me and my 3.8yo on no more than £30pw. It's hard, but can be done.

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