Walking Around Money, Mon-Fri

andym1

50 euro is nothing compared to 50 a few years ago.
5/6 years ago a 50 would do me a full working week without going out on the razz or going to the ATM. I could put 20 petrol in the car and get a sambo at lunchtime, do the 2 euro lotto on a wednesday etc and maybe a sliced pan or milk on the way home or whatever.
How much ''Walking Around Money'' do you spend Monday to Friday ?
Going out is Different !

seb65

about 100

Most of that is on coffee.

Felexicon

About three fiddy

efb

three fiddy

andym1

seb65 wrote: »

about 100

Most of that is on coffee.

Do you sleep ?

What's a few years ago? It would last me longer than it would have 6 years ago, most discretionary bits and pieces seem cheaper now.

El Guapo!

About 47 cents.

On a good week.





I'm poor.

KTRIC

About 30 i would think. I bring my lunch to work with me , so that'd be on coffee's and the odd scratch card, stuff like that.

RainMaker

El Guapo! wrote: »

About 47 cents.

On a good week.





I'm poor.

I threw at least 70 cents into your cup today!

Agricola

Impossible to say. Some weeks I could have the same pair of 20s in my wallet all week, another week I could have to spend multiples of that on freak unexpected expenditure like a new car battery or a cat manicure.

CianRyan

€50-€60 I'd say.
I get €144 a week, €30 for petrol, €50 into savings and the rest is fair game.

El Guapo!

RainMaker wrote: »

I threw at least 70 cents into your cup today!

There's a hole in the bottom. I can't even afford a new cup!

andym1

CianRyan wrote: »

€50-€60 I'd say.
I get €144 a week, €30 for petrol, €50 into savings and the rest is fair game.

I assume somebody else is paying for the mundane boring stuff like shelter ,food, power etc ?

seb65

andym1 wrote: »

Do you sleep ?

it relaxes me actually. Perhaps because i'm so addicted to it.

My name is URL

Fcuk.. some days I need to dive down the back of the sofa before leaving the house.

And that's not sexual innuendo either

CianRyan

andym1 wrote: »

I assume somebody else is paying for the mundane boring stuff like shelter ,food, power etc ?

That'd be my parents.
I do buy a fair bit of my own food though, I try to eat right and my parents eat a lot of food from jars. That all comes out of my €50-€60.

andym1

CianRyan wrote: »

That'd be my parents.
I do buy a fair bit of my own food though, I try to eat right and my parents eat a lot of food from jars. That all comes out of my €50-€60.

Now I am curious ! ''My Parents eat a lot of food from jars'' ? Forget the original Question, you have me curious now...Spill the beans on the jar issue ?

PLEASE ! This could be a super thread !

CianRyan

andym1 wrote: »

Now I am curious ! ''My Parents eat a lot of food from jars'' ? Forget the original Question, you have me curious now...Spill the beans on the jar issue ?

Curries from jars, chilli from jars, etc. they're full of salt and fat and **** I don't need.
I still binge in take away and **** on the weekends but day to day I eat healthier and train. Trying to loose weight and staying on these ain't gonna help.

They're not eating baby food or anything.

Sarn

If I need to buy milk then €1.65, otherwise, on average a little over zero.

Saying that, I'd usually have anywhere between €20 - 100 in my wallet. I do most of my spending on Saturday and Sunday.

andym1

CianRyan wrote: »

Curries from jars, chilli from jars, etc. they're full of salt and fat and **** I don't need.
I still binge in take away and **** on the weekends but day to day I eat healthier and train. Trying to loose weight and staying on these ain't gonna help.

They're not eating baby food or anything.

Ok Cian, Gotcha ! If you had to do your own weekly shop, what would YOU buy ?

andym1

Sarn wrote: »

If I need to buy milk then €1.65, otherwise, on average a little over zero.

Saying that, I'd usually have anywhere between €20 - 100 in my wallet. I do most of my spending on Saturday and Sunday.

Coppers ?

Big Bottom

50 euro is a lot to a lot of people.

Some perspective here please?

CianRyan

andym1 wrote: »

Ok Cian, Gotcha ! If you had to do your own weekly shop, what would YOU buy ?

Lots of fruit, mangos, passion fruit, not just the usual as I get bored of it and end up not eating it. Loads of Bananas. Lean meats, sweet potatoes semi skimmed milk because fu grey water. Porridge, flax seeds.

I don't like this thinking stuff!
Really, I just go and buy what I think I need, I don't do one shop for the week. I'd go maybe 2 or 3 times.

uch

I'm a rich Civil servant, so HAHA

WoollyRedHat

About 10 euro

aquaman

andym1 wrote: »

How much ''Walking Around Money'' do you spend Monday to Friday

€10,000
Gator needs some walking around money

Esoteric_

About 100 euro. Filters for my e-cig cost 15 euro, two coffees every day while in work (5 per day x 6 days = 30 euro), travel to and from work each day is around 30 euro, lunch twice a week (too busy to eat lunch, even if I bring it in, every other day) = 15 euro and about a tenner goes on stupid stuff like a magazine if I'm bored, or something like that.

Schism

I've had extra frugal weeks where it's been €0. Most weeks I can get by on €20.

Chao

At least 150 euro a week, I eat out everyday really need to stop that!!

Miss Lockhart

Between 20 and 40. 40 is if I have to get taxis a couple of days, otherwise it's mostly on bus fare, coke and lunch out once a week.

Dunny

Bout a tenner. Thats bus fares and lunches over 3 days.

ashers222

When I wasn't working I tried to make sure I had 20 in my pocket on Monday morning to last til thursday, covered coffee, tobacco and emergency rations. I spend at least that much per day every day when I'm working.

Depends if I'm on the beer or not!!

Very little if I'm not as I use the debit card for almost everything.

pickarooney

I rarely have any cash during the week. Credit card and lunch vouchers only.

The Dagda

Esoteric_ wrote: »

Filters for my e-cig cost 15 euro.

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

Legs.Eleven

I suppose about 20 Euro which is spent on coffees, the odd glass of wine/snazzy Belgian beer and the newspaper. I eat at home and bring a bag of nuts for snacks.

kfallon

About €40 would do me Mon - Fri and around €20 of that would be spent on paying for football!

keithsfleet

Fridays are my Saturdays so I'll say Monday-Thursday.
Easily €100-€ 150 for those four days.
I'm a 20a day smoker, litre a day coffee drinker and I eat out for lunch every day which would be €10-€15 a pop.
On the upside though, I fill my water bottles at home so I'm saving nearly €3 euro a day on water.

Oregano_State

Esoteric_ wrote: »

About 100 euro. Filters for my e-cig cost 15 euro, two coffees every day while in work (5 per day x 6 days = 30 euro), travel to and from work each day is around 30 euro, lunch twice a week (too busy to eat lunch, even if I bring it in, every other day) = 15 euro and about a tenner goes on stupid stuff like a magazine if I'm bored, or something like that.

2 coffees every day = 5 per day x 6 days?????

Valetta

andym1 wrote: »

50 euro is nothing compared to 50 a few years ago.
5/6 years ago a 50 would do me a full working week without going out on the razz or going to the ATM. I could put 20 petrol in the car and get a sambo at lunchtime, do the 2 euro lotto on a wednesday etc and maybe a sliced pan or milk on the way home or whatever.
How much ''Walking Around Money'' do you spend Monday to Friday ?
Going out is Different !

I'm confused.

A litre of petrol in 2008 was 1.27 so the equivalent of €20 would be €25.67 (using a current petrol price of 1.63)

As far as I'm aware the 2 Euro lotto on a Wednesday still costs €2.

According to here http://ireland.angloinfo.com/money/eu-factsheets/cost-of-living/ the cost of living has decreased since 2008.

So your €50 note should get you roughly the same as it did in 2008.

vitani

Less than €20 would do me. That covers parking for three days, the occasional lunch or snack (about once a week) and sometimes a magazine or newspaper. I bring my lunch to work most days, and I've cut out the takeaway coffee habit.

I tend to spend whatever I have left after the weekend, so sometimes I get by on just €10, sometimes it's more. If I've no cash on me, I cut out the little purchases that tend to add up.

Mr Benevolent

About €40.

ScumLord

The Dagda wrote: »

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

not at all, they're made by Jesus enterprises using his loafs and fishes technology.

TheNap

I take it people come home from work and dont leave their house until its time to go to work the next morning . Thats pretty sad .

rain on

Feck all really - I spend 80 cent on breakfast every morning, lunch is free, spend another 50c-€1 on a snack most afternoons, tea and coffee are free. Weekly grocery shop is about €40. Petrol - I put in €60 three weeks ago and the needle is only tipping the red now, so say €20 a week. I go training every night which is €60 a month/~€14 a week, I'm too knackered afterwards to do anything on weeknights.

not yet

2,000 on brass, 500 on coke, 500 for bookies, so about 3k normally does me.....

vitani

TheNap wrote: »

I take it people come home from work and dont leave their house until its time to go to work the next morning . Thats pretty sad .

Some of us have kids. As well as the expense and inconvenience of organising babysitting, I'm perfectly content to just have a few hours to myself to read or watch TV after my child goes to sleep. It's the only time of day that's mine, where I don't have to do anything.

Esoteric_

The Dagda wrote: »

Non smoker here, but are you telling me that these e-cig things require regular replacement filters?

The ones I sell (and also buy for myself) do. There are some where you replace the liquid in them, but that's too messy for me to do, so I buy ones that I also sell, with replacement filters, so you get around 200 smokes for 15 euro.

Esoteric_

Oregano_State wrote: »

2 coffees every day = 5 per day x 6 days?????

5 euro per day (2.50 for each coffee where I work), I work 6 days a week minimum.

Capt'n Midnight

Sarn wrote: »

If I need to buy milk then €1.65, otherwise, on average a little over zero.

Ohhh fancy brand name milk :P

ordinary milk not good enough ?

IrishExpat

I used to be a fiend for Coca Cola - and that could easily be 8€ daily x 5, that and ducking into McDonalds for a quick, unhealthy lunch on the go. Definitely adds up over time.

I rarely eat out now as I prepare meals at home and steadily saving a mini-fortune, and my health.

Usually €70 or thereabouts in the wallet, but rarely spend come Friday.