Genie Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Just now, Dante_Lockhart said: We're a family of 3 and do probably 2 'big' shops a month which includes cleaning products, essentials, toiletries etc... About £200 a time. Inbetween we just pick up what we need to top up on i.e. bread, milk etc.. I'd estimate we spend about £550 a month on shopping on average. Similar for us, I’d say £500-£550 per month. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Quick question, what would you class as an average monthly food spend for a family of four excluding booze? I spend over £100 now for myself. A family of four must be looking at over £350 at least without booze and being careful with your money. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Quick question, what would you class as an average monthly food spend for a family of four excluding booze? Does the family of 4 include 2 teenage males one of which is in a sports team? If the answer is yes, my calculator doesn’t go up that far. I think a year ago when we were a 4, we were over £400 a month. So my punt would be £500? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted June 21, 2023 VT Supporter Share Posted June 21, 2023 Just now, chrisp65 said: Does the family of 4 include 2 teenage males one of which is in a sports team? If the answer is yes, my calculator doesn’t go up that far. I think a year ago when we were a 4, we were over £400 a month. So my punt would be £500? Yes, exactly same a 16-year-old and a 18 year-old who both play for football teams and five aside teams regularly Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 1 minute ago, Follyfoot said: Yes, exactly same a 16-year-old and a 18 year-old who both play for football teams and five aside teams regularly Thoughts and prayers, not even Phil Schofield could fill them. And he’s got lots of money for food. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 18 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Quick question, what would you class as an average monthly food spend for a family of four excluding booze? £800+ going by today's greedflation. Plus the factors of what meals/food you buy and what supermarket you use. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Demitri_C Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 The way the worlds going and cost of living it does make you wonder if people will think twice about having kids as its so hard with keeping up with living adding kids with all the costs that come with them makes it even more challenging Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bickster Posted June 21, 2023 Moderator Share Posted June 21, 2023 5 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: The way the worlds going and cost of living it does make you wonder if people will think twice about having kids as its so hard with keeping up with living adding kids with all the costs that come with them makes it even more challenging I see we're already making savings on the punctuation.... 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 8 minutes ago, Demitri_C said: The way the worlds going and cost of living it does make you wonder if people will think twice about having kids as its so hard with keeping up with living adding kids with all the costs that come with them makes it even more challenging I've given this long and careful thought, and it has to be medical experiments for the lot of you. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MakemineVanilla Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 42 minutes ago, chrisp65 said: Does the family of 4 include 2 teenage males one of which is in a sports team? If the answer is yes, my calculator doesn’t go up that far. I think a year ago when we were a 4, we were over £400 a month. So my punt would be £500? As a matter of interest, do parents pass on inflation by way of their kids' keep? Or, do young adults live entirely buckshee these days? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bielesibub Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 35 minutes ago, AvfcRigo82 said: £800+ going by today's greedflation. Plus the factors of what meals/food you buy and what supermarket you use. We've got 4 kids, I'm spending well over £1k a month on food. A normal food shop would have been about £200, the last one was £380. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ender4 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 1 hour ago, Follyfoot said: Quick question, what would you class as an average monthly food spend for a family of four excluding booze? £400 a month excluding eating out and takeaways. That also excludes other essential shopping such as toiletries, cleaning products, etc. £600 a month if you just mean the total supermarket spend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Just remember whilst we're all getting poorer, a select few are getting richer. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chrisp65 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 3 minutes ago, MakemineVanilla said: As a matter of interest, do parents pass on inflation by way of their kids' keep? Or, do young adults live entirely buckshee these days? We never did ‘keep’. Never asked them for keep, but also weren’t exactly lavish with pocket money, they had their own pocket money jobs from the classic paper round, to TV and film extras (£45 a day and all the lasagne you can eat). We’ve still got some costs, I think every phone contract is still in my name, we have Netflix so they can use it, if we visit we do a supermarket run. All the usual stuff. But overall, what had basically been 4 adults in the house now reducing to 2 adults, well that’s had a very pleasant impact on finances just when food and energy have gone nuts. We had some very fortunate timing there. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AvfcRigo82 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 7 minutes ago, bielesibub said: We've got 4 kids, I'm spending well over £1k a month on food. A normal food shop would have been about £200, the last one was £380. Easily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobzy Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Depends on many factors - particularly the age of the children. We've got two under 6 and probably spend around £500 a month on food/house essentials. Have changed to shopping to Aldi/Lidl a lot (not exclusively though, by any means) over the last couple of years which has saved a ton of money to be honest. I feel sorry for people about to come out of fixed term mortgages. They're going to be utterly ****. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genie Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 2023 and 2024 are going to be brutal on the mortgage front. It was a realisation that has been lurking for a number of years “what if interest rates get back to their historical norms?” People ignored the risk and upgraded the car. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 Never charged my daughter a penny for living at home and for reasons outlined elsewhere she lives with us now and she is 34. I wouldnt dream of taking money off her but thats me. The family shop, thats 3 adults and a child runs to about 600 a month, that excludes booze, toiletries and toilet tissue. Booze on top of that is fairly significant. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CVByrne Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 45 minutes ago, Wainy316 said: Just remember whilst we're all getting poorer, a select few are getting richer. Real wages have dropped very little in the last year as wage increases have only been slightly behind inflation. Figure 3 from ons below Average weekly earnings in Great Britain - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk) Those who get richer during inflation are those who have large amounts of debt, so anything leverage like owning property etc.. as inflation is higher than the interest they pay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fun Factory Posted June 21, 2023 Share Posted June 21, 2023 46 minutes ago, bobzy said: Depends on many factors - particularly the age of the children. We've got two under 6 and probably spend around £500 a month on food/house essentials. Have changed to shopping to Aldi/Lidl a lot (not exclusively though, by any means) over the last couple of years which has saved a ton of money to be honest. I feel sorry for people about to come out of fixed term mortgages. They're going to be utterly ****. Got about 15 months left. Fully expect a big jump even if inflation drops a little bit before then. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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