LIVING ON $150 Per Week

[partzkid]

i'm 18, get roughhly $400 clear per week. not bad
$150 pw on rent
$100 on food, i like to eat something other than 2 min noodles
$20 a week on gas if that, the advantage of living 200m from work and all your mates drive/live close.
and the rest either is saved for next week or goes on clothes, footy etc..

i get by alright, been doing this since the first day i was 18, so bout six months now. all my mates who still live at home don't know how good they have it. one of my mates earns 700 clear a fortnoght, gives it to his parents and they pay for EVERYTHING. even if it is more than 700 bucks

partzkid

[Poetic Justice]

Interesting to see how some people must have been brought up. I feel like I must not have had much discipline when it came to money, but that's just bullshit excuse. I'd say I more likely just ignored it.

I sit here $20k bad debt to my name and have to pay it off with nothing to show. Luckily for me, I managed to score a job that pays just under $40kpa, has a company car and a fuel card - I'm 22 years old. Had I not found a job like the one I have (no qualifications) I could say I'd be royally fkd.

However, I still manage to pay a significant amount more off my loan than the minimum repayment, rent a place, pay for the furniture, pay for groceries, bills, mobile, clothes and anything else I need, have managed to get myself a toy car (injected 5ltr VH SL/E) for the weekends and afford to do work to it, as well as party as hard as I do (always beers/canadians in the fridge) and all that.

Budgeting is a major thing regardless of what you earn. I hate when I get to thinking about what my life would be like now if it weren't for the negative equity I've scored myself thanks to being a tool with... you guessed it! cars!

[Kenaz]

Interesting thread. I'm 25 and still living at home, will be moving out this year.

When I was 18 I was working part time and studying. Earning about $160 a week. Honestly I was living better back then than I am now. I always seemed to have cash to go out and buy things, go out partying once or twice a week and have plenty of money in the bank.

Good times

[4.9 EF Futura]

Originally Posted by gtfpv

judging by all the replies here . i'd say us felows who were 18 in the late 80's / early 90's . were better off, under which government you ask ???? i'll leave it here .
today i think to be equivelant you need an income of around $1000 / week clear, and be living at home . as some are accomplishing this i can see, however all of us were back then. in equivelant terms .

This is drawing a long string to the bow!

The world is a different place now... but i guess we might have an opportunity to see how your theory works out over the next few years... Ill leave it here

[XR06T]

cool thread! good to see everyones replys.

when i was 18 back in 2000, moved out with my mates, right into partying etc, was only on about $400/week while at uni.. good times, tonnes of fun.

now just got a job as assistant accountant only paying 45k pa but have learned about money management, and am about to move into my 1st house, which due to the boom i now have 150 ish k equity in.

good times back then, and alot less money worries haha but i think that i took the right path rather than partying for ever.

keep the replys coming guys!

[primo]

nversace: "u doin an apprentiship chris? i didnt know that .. what u doing?"

hey nathan, im a 4th year motor mechanic

[[Tonko]]

Im 20 and have my own place on the old mans property. only pay for the mobile bill and car repayments
I work about 30hrs a week for ~$650ish
My money mostly goes on general upkeep on both cars (this week: Dizzy on the EL, Insurance on the XD)
And the GF (18) dosent need money, she gets $400/pw allowance from her parents

[MON10A]

way back in 1981 i was 18,apprentice mechanic on $96 week.worked after school and weekends and owned xb gt outright,petrol was 45cent litre,bundy was cheaper by the flagon,doing a pub crawl was a challange due to number of pub/clubs in a town its size.life was good.