How much could (do) you live on?

Assuming no mortgage or rent.
Just food, power, light, heating etc and of course leisure activities.

 

if no wife and kids a lot less than I need now..................

 

More than I'll ever earn, at least to keep me in the style I'd like to become accustomed to.

 

My ddm's without the interweb, because that would be the first thing to go if I was to cut back are 407pm
100 pw food n drinkies
- £194 pw
I'd just be dry bummed the next time the van ftp'd.

 

I don't have a morgage or pay rent and work a full week it's still not anough all ways want more

 

That's why I asked you! (and Bob, Zed, Bern, Don, Jono and all the other OAP's senior statesmen.)

 

For a day ? week? year ?

Rest of your life ? Its not easy to work out unless you have a gun

 

im not oap yet but i survive

 

if you mean to stay in the house i'm in then off the top of my head these items are non negotiable.
mortgage £500 p/m
council tax £112 p/m
gas/electricity £70 p/m - could reduce if had too but would still have to have.
water £35 p/m
so just over £700 without food or petrol is the answer, like it or not everything else in your life is a luxury (internet/tv/phones etc)
i guess at a push take home of £1200 a month would leave me skint but alive and able to search for better whilst still not going into more debt but i'd have to stop all luxuries.

 

i can get 4 icecreams on stick for a pound and ive got one of those time release feeders so i cant over indulge

 

Any or all of them as long as you state it.

These are both a matter of opinion.

I reckoned £1200 without mortgage so you could live 'nicely'?

 

It was a eye opener when I went from a good wage (just short of the high tax) to nothing when I got ill
5 years on I work part time and the wife is on OK money, we are a lot happier and realised a lot of that stuff you don't need
Yes more would be nice but at what cost and you will always want more

 

Hard one to answer really - it depends on what your leisure requirements are. Our house is pretty expensive to run even though we have no mortgage these days. We kept a list of what we spent on food and drink for a few months to give us an idea.

 

Glynn if you wana do something your do it , i have got by on next to nothing at certain times of my life and with your skills etc i reckon you could too. Good luck if you are

 

I know what you're saying, we have plans that give around £20k a year (projected) on top of state pension (but that's 15 years away!).
I know of someone who is jacking it all in with no money, no savings and no idea. @lost-en-france is kecking it that he'll turn up on his doorstep.
I reckon I've got about 5-7 years of this shiite left then I'm falling off grid. Just seeing if everyone else reckons I'm about right with (in today's money) £300 for two of us if there was no mortgage or rent, just food'n'bills.

 

if i took my £500 mortgage off my monthly wage it would be £1200 so yes. - please feel free to pay it off for me.
that said if i didn't have a mortgage i'd look for a job at £1200 a month so i could do less hours/work/responsibility..... for me it's not about the money, i'm happy to pay my bills and just get by with the minimum amount of hours at work.

 

I daren't look at what we spend on food and drink.
Because we don't look, it's easier (and often better) to ask opnion, even on here!
Not jackin it in tomorrow, just a LOOOONG way before I'm 67, mainly because no male family member in known history has made it past 63!!!!!

 

THIS^^^^^