How much do you spend on petrol each week? How much do you spend on phone/ internet?

I still remember when all I paid was 18/mth for a landline. Man they were the days. Before yuppy phones and internet. The highest my coms bill ever got was $800/mth (Sydney).
The old girl and I spend 19/mth each now and fuels about 30/wk between us on average.

If I was to suggest where to save it would be 'time'. You simply can't get time back. Dollars are recoverable but many a commute on public transport (in AU) taught me that time is priceless.
 
40PM Petrol (motorbike) drive the car couple times a month.
00PM Parking at work
30PM Mobile (IINET/Optus)
60PM Naked ADSL (IINET)
 
I think I have you all beat

- $2.50 a month for the phone ($15, 6 month pre-paid paperweight phone)
- $12.50 a month for broadband (wireless USB stick pre-paid $149 for the year)
- $4 a week for petrol (I've only filled up the tank 4 times in the past 12 months for a total of $200. Get the train to work and only drive minimally on the weekends)

Total about $32 a month all up for the 3 items.

If you don't really use it, why pay for it lol. One of my staff members at work fell off his chair when I said I forgot to charge my phone this morning. I said I only had to do it once a month or so!
 
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I'm lucky enough to be able to walk to work, so petrol/travel is usually about $50/month for my motorbike/train for odd trips or fun rides.

Partner drives 20km round trip to work each day and that costs him $80 a week in petrol (free parking).

No house phone, and we pay $60/month ($14/week) for the internet, and $49/month ($11/week) each for our mobile phones.
 
fokas said:
Partner drives 20km round trip to work each day and that costs him $80 a week in petrol (free parking).
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Wow - I just read through this thread and realised that the 27year old Honda Prelude is costing as much as some self-proclaimed 'petrol guzzlers'. Yikes!
 
petrol = ~$50 per week (drive a Hyundai Getz and commute 70k per day round trip to and from work)
internet/phone = ~$28 per week
consists of $80 per month Telstra 1.5gb mobile plan with iPhone 5S
plus $60 per month iinet naked broadband connection with 100MB of data. This is split with a house mate
 
Does iiNet drop out every time there is a storm? We decided many years ago to stick to Telstra because at the time, the other companies we had used were always repaired long after Telstra customers were reinstalled. Am I stuck in a time warp and things have improved?
 
telstra internet - $20/w - inc phone line rental ($88/m 200gb) the best deal i can get, cant wait for nbn
Phone - $7/w - telstra prepaid ($30/m cap encore)
Fuel - $23/w - ($100/m) varies depending what i do
 
How much do you spend on fuel ?? Depend how far you drive. Distance etc How many cars etc. I switched my former car for a small engine new car and spend little a week..$20 ?? I travel 1K a month. My son has a older Ford AU2 and could spend $20 driving 20km. (Not quite but you know what I mean)

I know someone who spends $300 a month on tolls. That's insane. Its his son visiting the GF who lives across city through three tolls each way. I would throw it away and make him drive the long way around.

I'm a tight **** accountant :eek:
 
marty998 said:
I think I have you all beat

- $2.50 a month for the phone ($15, 6 month pre-paid paperweight phone)
- $12.50 a month for broadband (wireless USB stick pre-paid $149 for the year)
- $4 a week for petrol (I've only filled up the tank 4 times in the past 12 months for a total of $200. Get the train to work and only drive minimally on the weekends)

Total about $32 a month all up for the 3 items.

If you don't really use it, why pay for it lol. One of my staff members at work fell off his chair when I said I forgot to charge my phone this morning. I said I only had to do it once a month or so!
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I've cancelled my broadband/ homeline plan. Where I'll be living for the next few months I can only get dial up. I chucked all my dial up accessories two moves ago! I thought it was close to extinct! Would something like this be best for me? I most likely won't need until kids go back to school next year. Mainly for assignments, printing, etc. Can access a bit if internet on the three mobile phones for now. Good excuse to keep kids off games over school holidays. Well, maybe for at least the first half!
Paul@PFI said:
How much do you spend on fuel ?? Depend how far you drive. Distance etc How many cars etc. I switched my former car for a small engine new car and spend little a week..$20 ?? I travel 1K a month. My son has a older Ford AU2 and could spend $20 driving 20km. (Not quite but you know what I mean)



I'm a tight **** accountant :eek:
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Yeah, me and hubby both have ford fairmonts. It was about half the price of a smaller car ($2000-3000), with better accessories, but I guess you pay for it when travelling heaps.
 
2x mobiles and unlimited internet is about $30p/w
(we bought our phones outright as it was cheaper for us to do that and bring them onto a cheap plan rather than paying and being locked in for 24months)

hubby's motorbike petrol is about $15p/w and this is his main mode of transport. My car is about $30 p/w in petrol (LPG gas really).
 
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