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Should it cost in housekeeping to keep a family of 4 per week/month.


Brian

twice as much as your other half gets

to do it

thats a leading question when we had 5 at home I had to make £50. last. but that was a while ago. Money has always been tight so Learnt to budget

bellblair

Hi Brian,


I keep a family of 7 { food } on about £120 a week,

Pretty basic tho,


Caz x

I suppose it depends what you mean by housekeeping Brian. Do you mean food money, if so about £80-£100 a week. If you mean money to include mortgage/rent, council tax, utilities etc, then its anyones guess.

Dianne xx

give her a rise shes worth it honest

I just meant food & household utilities.

OK, Yesterday I spent £140 in Aldi, stuff will last about 10 days for 3 of us. My gas and electric are £108.00 a month, phone usually £65-75 a month, water £30 a month.

Dianne xx

Depends on so many things such as age of, sex of, travel costs, school lunch costs, growing kids replacement clothing/shoes. I don't think you can generalise.

LW

Suppose i should say, am going through divorce but still at home for a while, oh has been getting through £950 - £1150 a month at tesco's ,it's been crippling me, solicitor has told me to give a budget, what do you think?

Sounds like feeding of the 5000 if she spends so much at Tesco. Make sure you get your cut of the Club Card points.

LW

All till receipts are itemised now - do you have copies for financial statements that you will both probably need to provide?

I think I'd hate to shop at your Tesco's Brian, it must be cheaper at 'arrods !!

Dianne xx

well theres just me and OH and I spend around £80 per week in Sainsbury.and we bulk buy our meat from the local butcher and freeze it We dont go overboard in our eating though as i do like to do fresh veg every day and we eat a lot of salad in the summer

Shirley

Oh yes, iv'e got all the card statements.

Get the till receipts off her and see what it is being spent on, it will list each item of shopping exactly.

Dianne xx

Brian there's no fixed amount, everyone is different. Depending if you cook from scratch or buy ready-made, have the heating on, makes phone calls, bath or shower. There are lots of economies you can make, but when kids come home from school demanding £20 for an outing theres always a bill you don't expect. A night out costs a lot and at this time of year every penny goes too easily.

Hi

I have a husband and 4 girls and i spend around £125.00 per week at Tesco plus school dinners for 3, and i probably dont shop around for the cheapest.

I would definately say £550 would be top for food for a family of 4

Liz

Shoppings always done on the net, delivered when i'm at work trying ( & loosing ) to pay for it, never see any reciepts

Have you checked whether your oh is getting 'Cashbacks' - could be putting some away for the rainy day.