How much to get to work?

[mouk786]

Make me feel better about the fact I spend around £100 a month on fuel to get to/from work.

What do you spend and what is an 'acceptable' amount in proportion to your montly salary?

[paul001]

mouk786 said:

Make me feel better about the fact I spend around £100 a month on fuel to get to/from work.

What do you spend and what is an 'acceptable' amount in proportion to your montly salary?

£100 - is that all - £25 per week?

you're lucky!

I now spend nothing as I run a business from home but when working my commute was £200 per week so £800 a month. Do you feel better?

[MonkeyHanger]

I spend £0. Acceptable amount ? - Same.

I live 2 minutes from work

[mouk786]

A little

I am so glad I dont have to buy a London udnerground monthly ticket (or traisn in general) - paying through the nose AND having to sit in such st conditions!

Hey, I feel much better already

[69elan+2]

I think the time of the commute is more important (although I'm sure if you are using a car then two are linked).

Anything over half an hour, rush hour traffic (one way) would twist my melon!

Unless it was half an hour walk or bike ride.

[Legmaster]

Does driving 1.1 miles to work every day win me the 'laziest fecker of the year' award?

[D1MAC]

mouk786 said:

Make me feel better about the fact I spend around £100 a month on fuel to get to/from work.

What do you spend and what is an 'acceptable' amount in proportion to your montly salary?

Somwehere in the £250 - £300 per month range, plus the weekends as necessary. Not quite the worst but not ideal either.
Proportion of salary - that would be telling

[Penny-lope]

I would say I am nearly nothing...walk to work most days. Well it is only 15 mins away

[ironictwist]

£375-£400 / 1/3

Ouch. Upside is, everytime I drive home i have a mini hoon on the 32 miles back home, so it's bearable

[Dupont666]

mouk786 said:

A little

I am so glad I dont have to buy a London udnerground monthly ticket (or traisn in general) - paying through the nose AND having to sit in such st conditions!

Hey, I feel much better already

its not that bad... £1100 a year gets me zones 1,2,3 and full use of everything (bus, tube, dlr and trains) so actually very cheap.

[biglepton]

I live on the Isle of Wight at the weekends and in Cheltenham for work during the week. Weekly fuel and ferries comes to around £150 just for the commute.

[Alfa_75_Steve]

£nil.

But that's because my working day starts when I get in my car.

[The_Doc]

£350/month

but I get 23p/mile renumerated tax free and 40p/mile full tax relief (1st 10,000 miles)

[Tall_Paul]

£0, my work is a 15 min walk away and I walk in everyday, beats the 100 mile a day commute I had to do 2 years ago!

[Killer2005]

I think I must be at around 150-200 a month. Costs me around £65 to fill up and that could last 2-4 weeks depending if I go for a hoon or not

[drivin_me_nuts]

Until not that long ago, my monthly fuel bill was £900. For a few few weeks it was £400 per week. I had a fuel card, it made that much more bearable.

[Neil_H]

£41.50 a week for a 7 day travelcard on Oyster, not bad really as I can use it to go anywhere in zones 1-5 all week.

[Snake the Sniper]

For me, nothing at all. All I have to do is walk the 5 yards or so to my works van and it's fuel card! Which I am thankful for each and every day, as I can drive the van like I stole it every where.
The other half however has a 12 mile journey and puts about £180 of fuel in her 330i a month, although that does cover non work driving too, so not too bad really.

[Mikey G]

paul001 said:

mouk786 said:

Make me feel better about the fact I spend around £100 a month on fuel to get to/from work.

What do you spend and what is an 'acceptable' amount in proportion to your montly salary?

£100 - is that all - £25 per week?

you're lucky!

I now spend nothing as I run a business from home but when working my commute was £200 per week so £800 a month. Do you feel better?

Wow, you must have been really high up to earn enough just to get back and forth to work.....

FYI i spend about £30 a week on fuel just for travel to work.

[juice]

About $8 a week on a 125cc bike - with about a 6 mile round trip each day.