I am just interested to know what people all over the world are paying for groceries, petrol, electricity & gas, and clothing?
Weekly for food. Monthly for electricity. Weekly for petrol. Plus has your mortgage interest rate gone up?
In N.Z. everything is getting so expensive, fast.
Would love to know what the U.K. costs, plus America & Europe. This would be interesting.
Our groceries are approx. $150 N.Z. dollars per week, Power bill, $200 N.Z.per month, Petrol $1.70 per litre. Mortgage interest rates are now 9.25%. Clothing is cheap, as most of it is from China.
All dollars I have given are New Zealand dollars.
Thanks.
Mortgage free! (This took alot of work)
Spend about $40 per week on groceries for 6, grow the rest (organic fruit and veg, grass fed meat, co op with neighbors for variety).
Am off the grid, so no electric bill. Heat with wood.
Gas is about $3.20 per gallon here, so about $32/week (2 trips to town a week for kid’s music lessons, etc. and short commute to business in winter, bike in summer)
That said, it is a very labor intensive life.
Before the farm. . .
Mortgage was at about 6%, Groceries for 6 were about $600 per month, summer electric/gas for heat was about $200/month and winter was $1300 per month, gas was about $10/week because we only went to town once a week and lived over our business. We buy most of our clothing at thrift stores, so it is cheap and also use credit cards, but pay them off every month so as to avoid interest.
This is in Northeastern US.
In Adelaide: Petrol currently $1.40/litre, groceries $150/wk for two adults (don’t know how families are getting by), elec $100 month (we are very “environmentally aware”), mortgage interest rate 7.8%.
Home paid off.
Silvarado Truck paidoff
Mustang paidoff
SportsTrac paid off
Groceries…hmmm… since we feed half the country side is probably ranging on $1000 a month or more.
Oh, I didn’t answer the question. IF I was paying these bills, it would be,
House: 2,200 per month
sports trac 450 p/m
truck 700
mustang 600
Okay. Here’s an actual realistic amount for U.S. household. I can’t believe anyone would spend $500 a week for a family of four on groceries. That makes no sense or you’re eating lobster and T-bones every day.
I live in Houston, Texas. We pay more for energy because we have air-conditioned homes — have to — so our electricity would be more than cooler climates. My electricity, now that it’s winter, is about 120 a month. In the summer, it’s about 240. (All in American dollars)
Groceries, it’s just my son and I because my husband is overseas, but when he was here, a family of three, we’d spend 140 every two weeks. That’s groceries only. Add in eating out of about 70 to 80 bucks to that for mine and hubby’s and son’s lunches.
Gasoline is expensive right now. $2.89 a gallon. I fill up my car every 10 days to two weeks for about 40 bucks. I drive a Toyota Camry.
My mortage interest rate is 6%. Like you, we can find good clothing pretty cheaply.
Groceries $ 60.00 a week, this is for one person.
Power bill$100.00 summer $200.00 winter don’t know interest rate. Everything is getting higher all the time, If you can take care of the food and utilities, you are doing good.
You have to learn to with what you got adapt to the world we cant change it.
Queen Bee
No mortgage
Rent=$900 U.S.
Food=$300 US (groceries plus going out about twice weekly)
Gas (petro as you call it)=$100 I work from home so no commuting. Car is just for groceries and going out.
Electricity=$40 (Because of where I live I use the heat 3 times a year and I do not need air conditioning.)
Fiber Optic TV/Internet=$88
Clothing I do not buy very often but when I do I get casual shirts for around $20 and dress shirts for $50 or so.
Cell phone=$50
No car payment car is paid for.
None of your beeswax.
Pretty much the same as pennsylvania.
Gas rose, so power costs rose. I live in an old apt with leaky windows and use electric heaters mostly. Until it gets very cold, these will work. Even so, gas bill split between 2 apts runs about 350.00 usd monthly in the winter, and that’s with both of us keeping the thermostat between 55-60 degrees. In the much colder months, add about 50-75 usd per apartment. My electric is around 100.00 usd per month. I am blessed to have a landlord who has given a tremendous discount on rent, even so, it is getting harder to pay everything. Average rent in my state is 5-600.00 per month; I don’t know what the average house costs.
College costs rise every year 20.00 usd per credit hour. 12 credits =240.00 more each year. Gas for car is about 3.00 per gallon usd, and fluctuating.
Food for one person, I pay around 20-30.00 a week for groceries, but I’m on a tight budget. If one wants to eat healthy, it’s more.
damn you are nosey.
Yea, dude thisis the problem my parents are goin through too, we are planning to move tot australia, because in the USA, its too expensive, although I’v heard both NZ and AU are VERY expensive, since they import everything. My parents spend an average of $500 dollars a week on groceries for 4 people. Our gas costs around $300-400 dollars every week. Our electricity bills, are $1,098 dollars. And our mortgage rate is around the same as yours, and our mortgage rate stays the same, because its fixed, but for other people it has rised, also home prices have gone down, our house price wen down from 1,5mil to 1.1mil. And our cars are paid off, Our Bmw X5, and our AM V12. But we own a house in india too, we bought a Range Rover, and its getting hard to pay off.
I plan to move to australia, and live along side the great barrier reef,as an enviromental scientist
Good Luck with the expenses.