Monthly commitments - save, splurge or somewhere in between

Monthly commitments - save, splurge or somewhere in between

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pbg2770

Original Poster:

3,720 posts

106 months

Monday 5th October 2015
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Without giving hard figures unless you wish to, please supply the following. Idle curiosity is the driver + a desire to gauge where I am on the recklessness spectrum:

Age
Marital status
Region (if UK)
% of monthly outgoings:

- dedicated to mortgage or rent (state which)
- [if mortgage, % equity and years remaining]
- covered by accessible savings
- savedsaved every month
- spent on domestic bills
- spent on car finance repayments
- spent on motoring ancillary costs (available over year)
- 'spent' on depreciation

I'm just trying to gauge how daft my man maths is. My figures are to follow.

Apols if covered already. I realise there are loads of assumptions, unconsidered variables etc. making this totally unscientific.

GT03ROB

13,400 posts

223 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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You didn't really expect to get meaningful data from this question did you??

okgo

38,409 posts

200 months

Tuesday 6th October 2015
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GT03ROB said:
You didn't really expect to get meaningful data from this question did you??
hehe

z4RRSchris

11,359 posts

181 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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85% of mine is spent on booze, restaurants, bikes and cars

the other stuff I waste

CorbynForTheBin

12,231 posts

196 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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~40% on stuff I need to spend money on, the rest goes into savings/towards big stuff

Rick_1138

3,692 posts

180 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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c60% on rent, bills, fuel etc

23% into savings

13% for general cash in the month

Charlie1986

2,019 posts

137 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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100% on coke and hookers

deckster

9,630 posts

257 months

Wednesday 7th October 2015
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I spurn your fictional capitalist financial constructs, however I do trade almost my entire lentil allowance for a bi-monthly hand job from Big Gertrude in the next yurt along.