I am liveing at home in NJ attempting to put myself through school(Albeit I have screwed around to much). I work full time at $8 and hour.
Income:
$1024 in two $512 payments give or take OT
Expenses:
$450 rent to the 'rents
$65 Car insurance (USAA)
$100 gas money
$33 DSL (Ends this month)
$80 Personal spending (ends this month to fund Xmas gifts, rest funnels into school money)
Everything else goes to savings and paying of debt from when I was Jobless
Will be picking up a college tab by the end of this month.
Income: 1500$ mth.
Fun fun. Trent fucked around with this message on 11-13-2004 at 08:13 PM.
Income $600/month
The rest goes to swords.
Income: None. Cool, ain't it? Xyrra fucked around with this message on 11-13-2004 at 08:24 PM.
Income: $400-600 CAN 
Living at home rocks for somethings. 
Total: $460
what I make a month? ~$800
And now that I *may* have a job to help pay for everything, hopefully and income of at least 500 a month.
It's great being unemployed, living at home, with no girlfriend and no life.
I'm so lonely... 
Income: ~$600 give or take OT. It's been in the low thousands this last month or so due to massive OT.
Might be taking on another $200 payment so I get a new computer built sooner.
It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion. It is by the beans of Java the thoughts aquire speed, the teeth acquire stains, the stains become a warning. It is by caffeine alone I set my mind in motion.
income: $~400/m
I need to sort my finances, and find work that's not casual.
Rent: 0
Food: 300-400 yuan/m
Misc expenses: 50-100 yuan/m
Income: 800 yuan/m Niklas fucked around with this message on 11-14-2004 at 01:19 AM.
Expenses:
Mortgage: 1100$/m
Food: 150-200$/m
Gas/Misc Car Expenses: 250$/m
Various Bills: 500$/m
Spending Money 200$/m
Monthly Income: 2400$/m
I'm just squeaking by. Glad I paid off my credit card bills when I refinanced my home. Otherwise I would not be breaking even every month.
ediit: Pvednes, your rent is 1.5k a year?
edit2: Peter, you forgot to include "food" diadem fucked around with this message on 11-14-2004 at 07:13 AM.
quote:
Everyone wondered WTF when diadem wrote:
You will probably see a huge diffrence of people before and after graduation. People should include weather they are college graduates, highschool gradutes who went directly into the workforce, or college/highschool students. Weather or not you still live with your parents will probably also have a great baring on what the numbers will be.ediit: Pvednes, your rent is 1.5k a year?
edit2: Peter, you forgot to include "food"
That's including utilities. I 
Monash housing.
quote:
diadem had this to say about Reading Rainbow:
edit2: Peter, you forgot to include "food"
He probably doesn't have any(food expenses). He said he's living at home while attending school. His parents probably make him pay rent but cover food. Inferno-Spirit fucked around with this message on 11-14-2004 at 09:07 AM.
Rent - It works out about £295 per month, bills inclusive (Hooray for student halls.) and my lease ends in June
Food - Between £40 and £50 per month, depending on who's cooking for how many people.
Uni stuff - About £100 so far on books, journals, film, photographic paper and art supplies. Will probably be a lot more by the end of this year.
Tuition - £0 Family income is so low Student finance pay it for me.
Total loan is £4168. My rent is paid at the start of each semester and because of the amount of students that drop out before Christmas they charge about half of the total rent for the year and then the rent payments get smaller, whilst my loan payments for each semester remain the same. This is why I need the overdraft.
Either way, i'll have to pay it all back in a few years.
Food: 100/m
Rent: $350/m (paid by my parents)
College: $1600/y (paid by my parents)
Gas: $200/m
Credit Cards: Everything Else (damn Walmart and Visa!)
Current expenses:
Rent $300/month to 'rents (a solo apartment would be $800/month minimum)
Utilities $175/month to 'rents
Gas (auto) $60/month
Food $400/month
Auto Payments $430/month
Auto Insurance $200/month
Other $200/month approx
I'm not going to post my paycheck, for various reasons, but if you have a question I can try to help.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
income 0
haveing a trust fund that just got 27k sucked out of it for college.... pissy.
quote:
Bloodsage wrote, obviously thinking too hard:
What is your question? Did you want some help with an aspect of financial planning, or were you just curious what other folks take home?I'm not going to post my paycheck, for various reasons, but if you have a question I can try to help.
Not careing what other take home, just trying to get a ball park idea what it cost to live In the real world. I am going to have my shit strait with school pretty soon, so I need to get the hell out, Only reason I have stayed is to goto school(Albeit I have screwed around to long). --No I am not a leeching off my folks, I do pay rent to help the bills, and personal bills I pay in my name, and I do a very hefty amount of the household work, to cover what I don't pay strait out.
Peter fucked around with this message on 11-14-2004 at 06:26 PM.
--And no I didn't post food, I could buy my own food, But Both my old man and me Agree that it is asine to do so when he has plenty of it anyways. For what it is worth, I do 80% of all the cooking in the house anyways. I get home a bit earlier then they do, and my old man of late comes home dog tired.
I've lived all over the country, and cost of living varies wildly. Too wildly to get meaningful data this way.
Do you have a line on a job? Knowing what your income will be is more than half the battle.
--Satan, quoted by John Milton
Rent - 0
Bills - soon to be car payments of $200/m
Food - $70/m
Hobby + Misc expenses - $80 a month
Rest basically goes into savings for 'Just in case' scenario.
A year :-/
No expenses though. Very worth it.
Parents paid for cell which is like $30-40? and insurance which is about $75?
I paid for books, so about $300 twice a year. They paid rest of school.
Income: $9-11.50/hr, ~20hours/week, ~220/week, or $180ish after taxes.
Thus:
$720/month - $902/month = -182/month.
However, in the summer I was able to get double per week, and that made up almost all of my negative balance + random money here and there from parents. Had this setup for about 2 years now, and only am down a minor amount. If you included about 12weeks in the summer at over double what I made per week during the school year, and breaks/holidays/etc... I actually paid for everything with no money to spare, on my own (well, "on my own" as in, what I listed above as paying for).
(bleh, forgot gas/electric... it was like $20-25/month... so not a large difference in the figures).
Expenses:
$200 rent to the 'rents as of December 1
$100 food
$30 for a bus pass
$35 DSL
$50 cellphone bill
$150-250 beer/club entry fees
yeah the rest is pretty much all mine 
most of it I save up but only because i don't really have anything to spend it on
Food : 20-40/week
Gas : 20-30/month
Everything else is covered by my Dad. Most of my spare money goes to my fiance, and having fun with her. Outside of that, to my computer or my car or my truck for upgrades or maint.
Planning on 4 years of college ahead of me, followed by 3 of law school, then fighting tooth and nail to get a good foot in a big firm, probably doing civil defence cases.
Having jobs in HS and having a PoS car has taught me to be much humbler than most of my peers who whine about having been bought a 10 year old car instead of a new mustang or x car. I intend to work my ass off so I don't end up being a bum like I've seen happen to some of my friends who have already graduated. Law is going to offer me something that will be fun, challenging(that doesn't look right ) and profitable for the rest of my life. I was previously wanting to get into the computer technology industry, but it's looking like crap for the states right now. We'll never run out of a need for lawyers. I'm still planning on majoring in CS though, because my dad will kick my ass for majoring in Pre-Law because he saw a bunch of Pre Law kids struggle through law school.
