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HellBilly
How long is a piece of string ?
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How much is enough to live on ?
- Thread starter happypig
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How long is a piece of string ?
I wasn't being serious.
kevo
Well-known member
- Mar 8, 2008
- 9,104
I'm disappointed. I was envisaging Triggaaar Mansions, with a string of servants attending to your every need.
sydney
tinky ****in winky
if you are living on 400 a month i reckon your rainy days are already here...
seriously though , fair play does your cardboard box have a roof on it..
Seagull kimchi
New member
£10,000 a year. I plan on retiring from the game on my 50th. I've been saving £15,000 a year for a while now and the wife has been doing her bit too. Once we hit £250,000 I see no reason to work again unless I want to. The key to all this is realising that paying rent/mortgage is the most crippling and unnecessary hindrance we face. I haven't paid it for 15 years now and have no intention of ever doing so. Impossible if you live in the UK unfortunately.
Hastings gull
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- Nov 23, 2013
- 4,635
Obviously very hard to estimate as we know so little of your lifestyle. Where are you moving to? A less fashionable part of the UK might save you a few bob, if you downsize, but 1000 a month might be that shade Spartan, considering all the bills that will come your way, and will you have enough for all the unexpected ones. When on a budget, it is all too easy to "save" on eg insurances, and the very moment you do, sod's law operates. Whatever happens, do ensure that you have a little nest egg on which you can draw.
Garry Nelson's teacher
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I seem to remember reading somewhere that £15000 p.a was some sort of 'OK' level of income for retired people. (Not sure about how this works as a couple on the frankly unconvincing 'two can live as cheaply as one' formula.) So if you could scrape this together from occupational pension + occasional/reduced earnings and then await the meagre state pension you might be on track. But as most others observe it is hugely contingent upon outgoings. Then there's the whole downsizing/unlocking capital in property (if applicable) route...........
Anecdotal evidence from people that have taken the reduced income/reduced work trade-off indicates that few would go back to the full-time work option. When you think about it, full-time work (with all the bollocks it can bring with it) is one of the key variables to quality of life especially if you are unhappy/stressed - and/or a poor bloody commuter on Southern.
Anecdotal evidence from people that have taken the reduced income/reduced work trade-off indicates that few would go back to the full-time work option. When you think about it, full-time work (with all the bollocks it can bring with it) is one of the key variables to quality of life especially if you are unhappy/stressed - and/or a poor bloody commuter on Southern.
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
I owe nobody mortgage free kids both working so they self sufficient so they don't cost anything now just food utilities and holidays but holidays come from savings wife has part time job so I assume she uses her money as well for some things
maffew
Well-known member
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Here is a comma for you to copy and paste. I think yours is broken
Fair play to you though
Garage_Doors
Originally the Swankers
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Here is a comma for you to copy and paste. I think yours is broken
Fair play, i typed it on my phone whilst queuing (on private land) to get in the boot sale this morning
Never posted on here before using my phone, thats how bored i was !
Not as disappointed as I am. I think (can't even remember now) I was responding the the thought of needing more than £2k a month, when your mortgage is paid off, you have no dependents, and you're retiring early.
If the OP has a big old house that requires a lot of maintenance, that could eat into the budget. It also depends on what he enjoys doing. Some hobbies are a lot more expensive than others. It's a question we can't answer for him, at least not without a lot more detail.
Looks like you need one of these too 'Fair play, i typed it on my phone whilst queuing (on private land) to get in the boot sale this morning
Never posted on here before using my phone, thats how bored i was !
I don't seem to be able to give you a shift though.
I guess you don't get the full set on £400 a month.
Worried Man Blues
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