Cost of living

[EvianBaby]

Excluding any rent or mortgage payment, how much would you say your monthly bills and living costs come to?

[ummmm]

£500 ish... class C.

[daffy654]

Gas=£80 pm
Electric=£50 pm
Food= £300 pm for 3 of us
Telephone and Virgin media (internet and TV)= £75 pm

[craft1948]

Just bills is £350 a month............

[ummmm]

If we're including food....another £500 ish. 4 of us..

[boxtops]

It's council tax which raises ours - £140 per month.

[craft1948]

Come on daffy..............what about council tax, insurances, TV licence?

[ummmm]

Water...

[micmak]

Surely if you include Car tax,petrol and insurance. Then there is building and contents insurance.I'm sure mine is a lot more than that. In fact I'm frighten to add it up.

[boxtops]

I've put mine on a spreadsheet and I take the costs out as each one goes through the bank on direct debit, so I can see how much I've still got to pay out on any given date. At the moment, I'm clear until payday!

[EvianBaby]

Thank Christ I don't have any kids to feed!

[boxtops]

we spend about £70 a week on shopping, but that's everything, including things like binliners and cat food (cats are dear!)

[jackthehat]

Per calendar month we pay out;
Council tax - £ 125
Water - £ 18
TV Licence - £ 14
Contents/ Buildings Insurance - £ 25
Gas - £ 40
Electricity - £ 50
Telephone/Broadband - £ 30
Car Insurance - £ 30
Petrol - £ 60

Shopping tends to be variable, but as little as we can get away with....

[tiggerblue10]

Excluding mortgate, mortgage insurance and childcare my bills etc come up to just over £1000. That includes groceries, mob, tv etc,.

[tonyav]

I think we should all be like the Gypo's and pay nothing.

[mccfluffy]

Cc, water, elec and tv is 180, if you include tv znd phone thats 90. Food is roughly 50 a week for the three of us

[daffy654]

Craft, I have no idea what those cost as the oh pays them. I think you could probably stick another £150 on top of what I stated before (TV licence, car insurance, contents insurance and Council Tax)

[ummmm]

Council tax here is £133 pm.

[daffy654]

Because my other half has a low wage and both me and our son get DLA we have applied for and been awarded council tax benefit, so our bill just came down by a fair bit.

[Prudie]

I spend nearly £200 a month on petrol and ciggies alone (if you need to add that in)

[EvianBaby]

Bloody expensive all living lark isn't it. Good job I won't be eating much more than a bowl of wheetabix :)