How do you survive on £60 per week. ?

[Cyclone]

My house is mid-terrace, so holds SOME warmth, but I've got the kitchen, off-shot on the back, cold tile floor, a big arch through to the dining room, with a huge brick fireplace where I should really have a woodburner, all wood floors and just an empty room (bar the dog and the parrot) then another big arch way, a small hall with the front door and stairs, yet another arch, and a draughty living room!

 

And all the open doors will let the hot air move straight through and probably up the stairs. My house got a lot easier to heat when I put another door in at the bottom of the attic stairs as the attic is the least well insulated part of the house.

[Ms Macbeth]

Re heating, isn't there some sort of figure for living in fuel poverty? Is it something like 15%, I might we wrong, perhaps someone can put me right.

 

Anyhoo, a single person's monthly income on the dole is about £290. My heating is £95 which I pay by direct debit. So, I am actually paying around 32% of my income on heating.

 

That is your income after housing costs. If you add on the monthly rent and council tax benefits which might come to another £300 (and possibly more), then your income would be more than double what you quoted. Your fuel costs are roughly 16% of that.

[ANGELFIRE1]

How to live on £60 a week, you don't live, you exist.

 

Contrast that to an unelected peer in that other house, AKA Mr Prescott, I believe they do not geat paid, but can claim £350 a day expenses. Work is signing in, that qualifies them for their brass, after that it's up to you, either go into the house, or nip off for a days shopping.

 

Nice work if you can get it.

 

Angel.

[manofstrad]

"How do you survive on £60 per week. ?"

 

You can't. Anyone that attempts to is setting themselves up for a fall.

[Shogun]

The whole systems gone mad I work for my self and have never made as much money and never been as skint, my missus whent shopping and spent £100 and there were only a couple of bags of shopping, I used to walk around with grand in my back pocket at one time I had a fiver in my pocket today, everything has gone crazy mortgage rates gas electric water bills have gone through the roof no one gives me a any help with any thing at all,its like a rat race I wish I could say stuff it and sign on the dole and sit around getting my bills paid and £65 a week in my pocket and no worries,I think I would probably get fed up after a few weeks though.

[manofstrad]

The whole systems gone mad I work for my self and have never made as much money and never been as skint, my missus whent shopping and spent £100 and there were only a couple of bags of shopping, I used to walk around with grand in my back pocket at one time I had a fiver in my pocket today, everything has gone crazy mortgage rates gas electric water bills have gone through the roof no one gives me a any help with any thing at all,its like a rat race I wish I could say stuff it and sign on the dole and sit around getting my bills paid and £65 a week in my pocket and no worries,I think I would probably get fed up after a few weeks though.

 

You would get fed up Tom. You are a grafter, someone who can hold his head up high in a shop when buying something knowing that you have earned your money rather it being a sad handout.

[Balpin]

You would get fed up Tom. You are a grafter, someone who can hold his head up high in a shop when buying something knowing that you have earned your money rather it being a sad handout.

 

You are completely wrong there.

The times I get maddened and frustrated are the times I am earning my money. They are the hard times.

I loathe and detest working for the man, but he needs my knowledge, and I need his money.

Along with paying the Utility bills, paying for camerons private wars etc.

 

My best times are giving my money out, buying the things I have worked for, eating the good food, drinking the good drink. Giving to my family, and friends. Knowing I am a contributer, not a leech as the capitalist is.

[Harleyman]

I remember when I could go out for an evening with a pound in my pocket, hire a coach and four to the opera, dine at the Savoy, enjoy a bottle of the finest French wine and still come home with change in my pocket

[chem1st]

"How do you survive on £60 per week. ?"

 

You can't. Anyone that attempts to is setting themselves up for a fall.

 

Some get by on £53.45. 20+% of their age group do

[Balpin]

The whole systems gone mad I work for my self and have never made as much money and never been as skint, my missus whent shopping and spent £100 and there were only a couple of bags of shopping, I used to walk around with grand in my back pocket at one time I had a fiver in my pocket today, everything has gone crazy mortgage rates gas electric water bills have gone through the roof no one gives me a any help with any thing at all,its like a rat race I wish I could say stuff it and sign on the dole and sit around getting my bills paid and £65 a week in my pocket and no worries,I think I would probably get fed up after a few weeks though.

 

Bit dangerous that, £1000 in your back pocket.

You were risking it a bit there.

In the 70's if you had £50 cash you were risking getting rolled over.