What do you spend your cash on? (1 Viewer)

[terminator69]

For people with jobs, what do you do with your pay?

For example;

30% - phone bill.
30% - cat food.
40% - gambling.

I'm curious as to how significant having a job is for people at school/uni. If people are mostly spending money on stuff they don't need, I guess it isn't much of a loss for people without a job.

 

[zombie omie jay]

60% bills of various sorts
15% food
25% beers

 

[ashie0]

taxis, drugs, food, glitter

 

[HalcyonSky]

100% saving / investing


i feel bad whenever i spend money

 

[spence]

It varies widely, but I'll usually save roughly 60%

 

[xMaNx]

100% food

I work as a full time student.

 

[kfnmpah]

hardly anything on food. I budget something fierce, maybe 20%
maybe 10% on alcohol
some on petrol
the rest is saved


cool story.

 

[ClockworkSoldier]

All fortnightly:

Petrol $10-$50 (10 is a real bad week).
Rent $80.
Food $20-$30 (split with GF).
Bills ($69).

And I only get $244 a fortnight. $15 left over for anything else... WOO!

FML. I hate this area.

 

[zombie omie jay]

fucking move then you douche

 

[scarybunny]

Mostly food and clothes. But then I only work one shift a week so I can't really save much.

Next year the plan is for my bf and I to live off one income and save the other (since I'll finally be teaching and he'll be working for a very good wage). We could probably even live off half a wage and save the rest if we wanted to.

 

[ClockworkSoldier]

fucking move then you douche

Been through this lol.

Even if I got a job somewhere else, I couldn't afford to move (still owe Centrelink money for $500 loan and they won't pay relocation assistance till it's paid)... I have no applicable certs, I'm unskilled and everywhere wants experience.

I'm stuck here for a while.

 

[Official]

100% saving / investing


i feel bad whenever i spend money

Ye this.

Although, there is a long list of albums that I want to buy. Oh, and food.

 

[Barney_Stinson]

atm like 100% on petrol since work isn't giving me any shifts!

 

[melsc]

I work three days a week, live at home and am still full time at uni.

I get paid fornightly:
50% - goes to savings/credit card
Other expenses:
*$49/month mobile phone bill
*$20-$40/ week petrol
*$10-$20/ week - bus/train ticket
A bit on food/clothes

 

[seremify007]

hmm... on a monthly basis:

$650 - meals/drinks (i.e. lunch and dinner; and taking gf out?)
$250 - petrol
$240 - running costs of the car ($2.8k for ctp/rego/comp)
$200 - 2x phones + vodafone internet (wireless broadband netbook
$80 - FF passport gym membership
$17 - credit card annual fee ($200/12)
$150 - bills (electricity; i think something is screwy though because how can a 2 bedroom apartment use $450 worth of electricity every quarter)

The rest I save/invest/spend on random crap (e.g. car parts, maintenance or clothes).

 

[scarybunny]

Our electricity bill was like $230 for 2 people in a 2 bed apartment. Unless you have a particularly large TV (ours is 32").

 

[terminator69]

Our electricity bill was like $230 for 2 people in a 2 bed apartment.

Lighting system for hydroponics?

 

[scarybunny]

Nah.

Yeah even our bill is a little high. Maybe it's the down lights? Constantly leaving two laptops on? The playstation? Electric hot water, cook top and oven? I don't know.

 

[seremify007]

Our electricity bill was like $230 for 2 people in a 2 bed apartment. Unless you have a particularly large TV (ours is 32").

We have a 40" Samsung LCD which isn't going to be that big a drain on electricity. What I'm having trouble understanding is how our electricity usage jumped from about $200 a quarter up until last year, but the past couple of bills have been in the $400-$500 range. I figured last quarter might've been because we used air conditioning every now and then but now that it's cold, I doubt that could be the cause. *shrugs*

(doubt it's the Wii, Playstation, laptop chargers, fridges, etc...)

 

[emiliieee]

food, clothes, rent, random stuff, the rest to savings.