Woman earns £30-£40,000 and asks parents for up to £500 pm

[tzijlstra]

Sadly not everybody knows how to manage their own money. This seems to be a case of it. I know someone who earns around 2K a month and is constantly struggling for money despite only paying £450 in rent. I tried to sit down with him to come up with a plan, he simply refused to acknowledge that you should be able to live comfortably on £100 a week on groceries etc. His weekly outgoings are over £200, £60 of it on the local Costa, McDonalds and pub at a minimum. Throw in debts that have built up over the last ten years, costing him at least £300 a month in payments just to service and it is a pretty damning image.