woo exciting!! ok so a rough guide for you as to what is going out in our house. This is for 2 adults and 2 children (so may help with DP having a child too)
Food: 170 a fortnight including meat and fruit and veg
Electricity bill: 400-600 per quarter varies quite a bit on the time of the year
Water: $30 per quarter
we are on bottled gas so cant really help with that
We have our house phone so that its only connected to incoming calls and i have a great cap plan with optus very affordable and you dont have to stress about having to come up with money for a new phone if yours breaks. Also we only pay $50 a month for our net and it gets very good gb's with telstra we were paying around $80 for 12, i cant remember what we get now but its more than 12!
About 100pw for groceries for 2 adults, 2 kids and a cat
400-600 a quarter as well for electricity
water usage 20 a quarter, but we own not rent so we pay supply charge on top of that
insurance about 40pm for house and again for comprehensive car insurance (this is optional and varies something severe)
internet you can easy get for 50pm
phone is about 80pm for us but we have mobile/landline on there and are still paying out a 24 month telstra internet contract
petrol/car rego/car maintainence varies too much between households to comment
Plenty of other bills sneak up on you as you get older and start to collect Stuff that needs money spent on it. We have 3 sets of insurance (soon to be 4), 2 sets of council rates (soon to be 3), water charges (soon to be 2) and soon 3 houses worth of maintainence bills to pay. And I'm only getting $320 per fortnight in newstart right now and only have 6 months to come up with another $14k for a house deposit! Oh, to be young and house-free again ...
Water bill - we dont pay as we are renting, land lord pays it.
Electricity - is bout $200 per quarter - we dont have a dryer or air con, they will make your bill soar i think.
Food - Helps that DP is a butcher so we get cheaper meat, but i almost always budget $100-$150. I could feed myself on much less but DP is a human garbage, especially since quitting smoking! (woohoo on that one tho) Helps to buy things in bulk too, when toilet paper goes on special i normally can get about 24 rolls for $12 and that lasts us agessss. Then you will have that little bit extra each week to spend
Phone - DP is prepaid (never has his phone with him anyway ggrr) and im on a $79 cap per month, for that reason we dont really need a home phone because my mobile gets us about $600 worth of calls per month.
I think thats about it, any questions hun just ask
We are a bigger family, but I'll tell you what my friend pays.
There's herself & her 2 children.
Food - $150/week
Water - $150/6 months
Electricity - $250 - 300/quater depending on time of year
Phone - $100/month, but you can get an incoming only line with Telstra...deal is that you can't have access to a mobile. You can also get local calls only.
TBH we rarely go over $100 a month with our phone bill & $50 of that is internet. Our actual calls are $10 - $20 a month. Net is $50 & line rental is $30 ish. We make probably one, maybe 2 long distance calls a month & 5 or 6 mobile calls a month.
Food $150 per fortnight ( we get meat from the butcher & fruit & veg from a wholesaler because it works out cheaper)
Water $30-40 \ (if you have a health care card you get a discount)
Electricity $250 per quater & Gas $30-50 in warmer months, up to $250 in old months (once agin you get a discount with a health care card)
Phone & net $100 per month we dont need a home phone but have to have it for internet where we live
Then you have to add on if you have credit cards, mobile phones, car rego, insurance, petrol, rent, etc
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