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$550 goes quickly eg nappies, packeted foods/milk for kids, snacks after school, fussy eaters who waste food, lack of space to store a lot of perishable food on discount etc etc - its easy to rack up that sort of bill. On top of that, being extremely time poor with young kids makes shopping...

BV the only thing in this world we're not willing to negotiate on (materially speaking) is where we live, having moved about 4-5 times prior to landing our (rented) goldmine. Its a townhouse in the East (our preferred location) - has 3 beds, 3 baths and is underented to the tune of $150-180 pw...

I think the reason I left it out was because, apart from choosing where I live, the $ are fairly non-discretionary ie it is what it is. But you can starve or eat bread and water to get your weekly living expenses down.

I wish, rent is $720 pw. Sydney isn't cheap.

Agree - 15 years ago when I was single - I was probably spending a tad more than $100 pw - and I was absolutely FRUGAL - friends used to have cracks about me being a tight a*se (pardon the pun). Have no idea how a couple, let alone a small family in this day and age can exist on $100+ per week...

We must be doing something wrong, and one wouldn't even say we're extravagant. This is our breakdown PER WEEK (family of 5). Annually with misc costs that come up we're probably pushing $70K a year easy. Food/groceries $550 Electricity/gas $33 Petrol $60 Kids sport/related costs...