It’s better to be healthy than wealthy lads.Everyone doing a working class job is feeling the pinch and it isn’t going to get better for a good few years 
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jessicas dad:
im not saying what i earn but i have to put £400 a week in the joint account just to cover costs.
same here.i give my missus £400 a week house keeping.need to clear over £500 to start saving any of it.
andrew.s:
jessicas dad:
im not saying what i earn but i have to put £400 a week in the joint account just to cover costs.same here.i give my missus £400 a week house keeping.need to clear over £500 to start saving any of it.
Same as…£400 does the business, but it’s geting harder and harder to find.
I’m self employed, and although I’m busy, trying to get increase the rates could be a killer
Good money for me is £350 take home. It may not seem like much to most people for 45 hours work but I live a comfortable life, own a car, motorbike, rent my own house and I’m happy, that’ll do me.
SamBarnett:
Good money for me is £350 take home. It may not seem like much to most people for 45 hours work but I live a comfortable life, own a car, motorbike, rent my own house and I’m happy, that’ll do me.
If your income covers your expenditure that’s good enough,but everyone has different levels of expenditure and commitments.
beefy4605:
So what is good money in your opinion?
£100 +/ day for legal work . It’s out there ,people are being paid it ( and before the bull [zb] starts - I have the payslips to prove it )
Same here plus night out which varies whether in UK or Europe. 
It’s all a difficult balance to find.
We all need money but at what sacrifice? I am tramping at minute, general haulage, it pays reasonable money, N/O included but i am doing this as I need a lot of money at the minute as we have our first child due in less than a fortnight. The money will help with costs of a new baby and covering the short fall of my wife’s wages whilst she is on maternity leave.
Then what happens when the baby comes, am sure I won’t be looking forward to leaving my wife and child on a Monday morning, is the money really worth it then?
There is no price you can pay to get your childrens early years back
currently i’m doing good, still tramping, now at maritime, its good money, anything above £400 take home is good for me, i have a car, a motorbike, all my luxury payments, ie car bike insurance are paid in full instead of remembering every month and worrying if you don’t have it, can’t stand paying monthly for stuff, don’t have credit cards, don’t do credit or finance, if i can’t pay cash, i do without, hasn’t always been like that, wife and i struggled financially for a long time, luckily for us our 2 eldest sons work, youngest son works part time, so the financial burden is getting less for us, which means we can enjoy ourselves a little bit more 
I take home £350 on average for a 55 hour week. I would be happy taking home £500, that would set me up nicely for paying the mortgage off much earlier.
Between me and the girlfriend we seem to manage quite well, she earns more but has a daughter (and horses) so that easily absorbs any excess she has. I live quite a humble lifestyle, don’t go out much, on a good month when it isnt a quarterly utility bill month I can put away 400-500 into savings or overpay the mortgage depending on which is more pressing.
Neither of us would be able to live the lives we do if we were on our own. That stark fact does occasionally put a strain on things when we aren’t getting on particularly well. As the only reason to be with someone should be for their company, but money issues can skew the moral values somewhat.
We split the mortgage and bills 50/50, the quarterly electric/gas make for a very lean month. Interest rate predictions concern me, but even the so called experts don’t seem to be able to predict accurately what will happen, so there isn’t a great deal of point me worrying about it. Having done the sums, on our current income, all other things being equal, we could sustain the mortgage up to a rate of 12% at a push (currently 4.5%). Beyond that, and we would be in trouble.
My only real goal from work is to pay the mortgage off. The sooner that is completed the sooner I can get shot of this “working for a living” nonsense. Or at least severely curtail it to a couple of days a week.
We always want more, i’m reasonably happy with earning “adequate” amounts. The only thing I would do with more money is learn to fly. Not into big houses, flash cars or travelling or any of that other consumerist vanity.
Hi all.Ithink it depends on what you need or want out of life,and what your fixed costs are.Ispent many years working for both English and Dutch companies going all over.The problem is that after a while you only seem to ‘‘live to work’’ which almost makes it irrelevant what you earn.
When i decided to move up to Lappland at the age of 58 i said ENOUGH,now i am going to ‘‘work to live’’.
Idrive a 50ton tipper 1km underground in a mine.We work 10hrs a day for 7days,then we have 1week free.
For this i get app €2200 a month net BUT this means that i have 2 weeks free to enjoy my earnings so i am quite content with the life.Plus being’‘off road’’ you don’t have all the stress of tachos,police,ministry,etc.Mike