Moving into a flat next month... Tips?

[HAL9000]

Are you going to walk everywhere? Change it to "travel" budget.

I walk around my town (no need for a car really now that I'm less lazy) I have a free bus pass, so I can use that everywhere in the country and then when I go to london I need a train ticket.... £8

 

[HAL9000]

Are you going to walk everywhere? Change it to "travel" budget.

EDIT:

Also don't assume whatever is left over is entertainment. Monthly expenses never just tally up at the end of the month and now you have entertainment money.

True, which is why I'm trying to over budget for everything.

I think the ban was too short.

:awe:

 

[ShawnD1]

if i did my math correctly that converts too $11/day. I spend that much for 1 meal(usually alot more), unless you go to mcdonald's.../barf

So basically you eat t-bone steaks for every meal?
/ATOT

My meals are never more than about $3. A meal worth of pasta is about $0.50.
Rounding up to $5 per meal seems pretty safe unless you eat enormous amounts of food.

 

[ViviTheMage]

nice tags, haha.

£50 a week should be OK...better if you're cooking yourself of course.

 

[HAL9000]

So basically you eat t-bone steaks for every meal?
/ATOT

My meals are never more than about $3. A meal worth of pasta is about $0.50.
Rounding up to $5 per meal seems pretty safe unless you eat enormous amounts of food.

This is what I'm thinking, would you say that $80 per week is enough to eat with? Obviously prices are different in the US but it will give me a rough idea.

 

[Tweak155]

I walk around my town (no need for a car really now that I'm less lazy) I have a free bus pass, so I can use that everywhere in the country and then when I go to london I need a train ticket.... £8

How frequent is that? Account for it.

Also if you didn't see my edit, make a budget for entertainment and don't go over it.

Also x amount should go to emergency.

EDIT:

I see you saw my edit. I should have refreshed.

 

[HAL9000]

nice tags, haha.

:awe:

£50 a week should be OK...better if you're cooking yourself of course.

That's my plan, I will be cooking as much as I can for myself, trying to do things cheaply.

 

[HAL9000]

How frequent is that? Account for it.

Also if you didn't see my edit, make a budget for entertainment and don't go over it.

Also x amount should go to emergency.

I've got a surplus £1,000 for emergency, so hopefully that will be enough.

I go to london twice a month, I'll add that, good thinking.

As for the entertainment budget, you're right I really need to try and budget for that, currently I probably spend £40 pw getting drunk etc, but I'm hoping that will be less when I can do it at home.

 

[Tweak155]

This is what I'm thinking, would you say that $80 per week is enough to eat with? Obviously prices are different in the US but it will give me a rough idea.

Rarely eating out, this will work. But assuming you eat out 3x a day (which I know wont happen, but I personally do worst case scenario), even at $5 per meal, that is $105 per week.

I've had months of $800 probably for food with my wife, never know when you will have lazy months.

 

[Elbryn]

I walk around my town (no need for a car really now that I'm less lazy) I have a free bus pass, so I can use that everywhere in the country and then when I go to london I need a train ticket.... £8

trident went to england?

 

[HAL9000]

Rarely eating out, this will work. But assuming you eat out 3x a day (which I know wont happen, but I personally do worst case scenario), even at $5 per meal, that is $105 per week.

I've had months of $800 probably for food with my wife, never know when you will have lazy months.

Ok that's good advise, I do want to do a "worst case scenario budget" so, that's definitely something I need to take into consideration.

 

[HAL9000]

trident went to england?

Wut?! When!? Christ...

 

[Capt Caveman]

Is this the first time living on your own? Is your fiancee moving in?

 

[ShawnD1]

I've had months of $800 probably for food with my wife, never know when you will have lazy months.

If I'm hungry and don't feel like cooking, I eat hot sauce with a spoon. It's delicious

Learn how to cook rice. Billions of poor people can't be wrong :thumbsup:

 

[nageov3t]

50 pounds of food every week seems like a lot. is it bulk-sized?

 

[arrfep]

I think the ban was too short.

I don't think so.

That was one of the most entertaining first pages of a thread I've read in quite some time.

 

[HAL9000]

Is this the first time living on your own? Is your fiancee moving in?

I lived in a house with some friends for about 2 years, but that's a bit different, I wasn't responsible for 100% of the bills, my fiancee isn't moving in for about a year as she's having to work quite a long way away at the moment, and she's only just started learning to drive, when she can drive she will

 

[HAL9000]

50 pounds of food every week seems like a lot. is it bulk-sized?

No, I just wanted to over-budget for everything, Ideally I want to be surprised at how little I've spent, rather than thinking I don't have enough.

I don't think so.

That was one of the most entertaining first pages of a thread I've read in quite some time.

I try

 

[brainhulk]

oh wait it's neckbeard

 

[zinfamous]

how does one move onto (or into, rather) a physical description of something?

:hmm:

 

[Tweak155]

All I know is I like having huge cushions. You can't have a big enough cushion.

I like to think I'm pretty dang good with money. With a wife, our total expenses per month is probably $1800-$2000 whereas our after tax income blows that out of the water.

I can almost cover our one month of expenses with an after tax check I get from my job (paid bi-weekly). On top of that, the wife works as an EE and we have a home based business. Leaves plenty of $$ to buy anything we truly want and still have lots of savings.

 

[Born2bwire]

Don't get internet.

 

[HAL9000]

how does one move onto (or into, rather) a physical description of something?

:hmm:

Sitting on would work.

All I know is I like having huge cushions. You can't have a big enough cushion.

I hate cushions, when I sit down I move them first, bloody annoying things.

 

[nageov3t]

50 pounds of ramen/week would be 99,750 calories (14,250 calories/day) D:

 

[HAL9000]

Don't get internet.

Re-Re-Repost.