how much $ does it cost for you to live each month?
 

i was watching something on my local news about this it was interesting.... how much $ do you spend each month on bills?

Too Much

i used to only have like 500-1000 a month in bills
than had a baby
had to get a house
new car
so im up to 2-3000 a month in bills

Alot! RI is getting to be costly. Crooked government is expensive.

im thinkinh im gonna gonna be at least $2000 a month when i move out :Oh crap

im 18 and im hoping to get a house rather than an aprtment.

:pimp 400$ up!:thumbsup :pimp

420 a month in rent. ( Building a house )
100 a moonth in electricity
10 in water
30 in cable
75 internetconnection
100 food
200 gas


Its not bad, and the office here at this house, is upstairs and has an ocean view.

including everything? about $4700

Cost of living, no business expenses: 1200.00
Thats food, gas, utilities, insurance, so forth.

an arm and a leg
thank god i have alotta spares

Hmm...

Rent: $665
Food: $500
Cable: $50
Water: $30
Electricity: $50

About $1300 to get by.

definitely too much

gotta get more money coming in:eyecrazy

What's with all the small electric bills?

My electric bill here in Houston TX is $700/mon

$450/mon on a slow month..

i hear that :helpme :helpme

mine runs around 120 winter and 160 in summer.

$1500 or so. I probably pay more on student loans than anything else.

How big is your house? And are you heating a pool?

My total electric bill is around $200, but I only pay a third.

It's only 2,000 sq ft. SMALL for a house...

But it's 30 years old. Hubby inherited it....

So I guess it means we need to redo windows, eh? The airhandler is new. but I bet it's our insulation and house layout that blows.

God you guys are so cheap to get by...

No one has even mentioned their hair, clothes, nails accounts for the month, heehee...

My monthly quote includes my womans nails, and massages. Neither of us buy clothing every month.

Strange, 30 years really isn't that old. My house is about the same size, a little over 50 years old, horrible insulation and bad windows... $700 electricity bills would have me screaming, lol.

I don't have central air though, I'm sure you do in Houston and take full advantage of it.

i like to be cold :pimp :pimp it builds character

Just seems to getting higher and higher each month...

probly $2k a month

rent is $1000
utilities (internet heat water electricity) $200
Car insurance + food + fun = the other $700 haha

huh where are all the people who spend $500 every night?

$175 with out Internet connection.

wow.. i need to move to the 3rd world country called the USA..

$1500 all-in? That will last me a week in a European middle-class neighbourhood..

home and bills ..2600 a month

ok I will admit it, I misread the topic.

The title said "how much $ does it cost for you to live each month? " without mentioning that it's only about bills...

i doubt anyone spending $500 a day on luxeries lives in a $400 per month house ;)

I had to figure this out a few months ago: $6K is my average, but I can bump that down to about $3-3.5 if I needed too. For instance, if I was dead broke, I think I could do w/o the satellite package with everything for $100 a month and the extra phone line I fax on maybe once a month ;) I could also get rid of a car, get higher deductibles on insurance, cut down on eating out, don't go to ATL 1-2 times a week, etc. Lots of ways to lower it. I'm a big overspender :(

Also if you own a home, you have to include maintenance in there that might not happen but once every few years. For instance I had the house restained - $7K. But it was the first time in 10 years and I won't have to do it again for another 6-7. BUT when you average it out, that's almost another $100 a month.

Replacing things like hot water heaters, furnaces, w/d, fridges, etc. also comes into play that you have to average in there.

Damn you all live cheap. :helpme

I haven't added it up in over 10 years. Not sure I want to. No house payment or car payments though. That's all paid for. Everything else is just maintenance, existing, and having fun.

PK

no shit.. im thinking of all the money i could save!!

130 HRK gym and 189 HRK internet connection.Plus booze and bitches which i dont track expense :)

Highest electric bill I've had in almost 6 years is $160 and that's electric EVERYTHING - hot water, cooking, heat and AC.....I have propane for my backup generator, auxillary heater and gas logs. about 2300 sq with a vaulted ceiling for the top two floors. Log homes are GREAT insulators and I have a ton of hardwood trees that shade during the summer :) I have double paned windows too.

I fill the propane tank about once a year - $1.49 per gal last fill, 330 gallons (300 gallons really because they don't fill over 90%). I could cut that down a lot by not starting the fireplace everytime it drops below 50 degrees :) Water is included in our HOA fees - $300ish a year for water for everyone who has a house - works out great for the 1/2 of us who live here full time, sucks for those who have vacation homes. Septic tank so no sewer fees. Garbage collection also included in HOA fees but we have to take our trash to the dumpsters.

When I lived in the burbs I had to pay something like $3 a month for street lights :)

2,000 sq.ft. is far from being a small house. It's actually quite big IMO.

Roughly around $2k per month. Which includes home morguage, utilities bills (gas,water,elec), food, net conection/cable/phone, health insurance.

Some months it fluctuats if bills are more than avg or if say car/house rego is due or things like that. A bonus to not living in the central CBD areas, are things are cheaper. :)

-N

Not including cars, insurance or business expenses:

$1600/month rent
$300-$400/month electric
$40/month gas but somehow up too $500/month in the winter and its always freezing in here
$30/month water
$200 or more a week for food and household supplies

So, around $3k a month on average not including luxury items and business expenses. All in all, betwen $6 and $10k a month. Sigh

i have no idea how much my mortgage payments are gonna be :Oh crap

hopefully not too much, i have expensive taste when it comes to cars and clothes :1orglaugh :1orglaugh