Reply to Family budget if your income is around $180-200K

Forum Index » Money and Finances

Reply to "Family budget if your income is around $180-200K"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]$170k gross
2 adults and 2 school age kids

$9175/mo net

$2455 mortgage/PITI
$338 truck payment
$150 car ins
$100 gas (vehicle)
$228 cell
$40 Internet tv
$69 pool guy (chemicals)
$1,000 food (groceries + eating out)
$200 housekeeper
$100 trash/water
$200 electric
$15-40 gas
$268 karate for kids
$79 gym
$833 — one time per year costs.   Certain costs are only once per year and that adds up to $10k per year.  This includes Christmas, kid’s birthday, summer care costs, back to school shopping, dues for Disney timeshare, expensive anniversary dinner,  boat insurance, flood insurance,  etc.
$100 entertainment
$100 clothes
$100 home decor, repair, small reno
$100 life ins  
$82 kids lunch costs
$100 healthcare and prescriptions
$100 gifts[/quote]

why did you revive this old thread, PP? interesting to see if the numbers have changed over the years?

happened to have just looked at some of our gross numbers:
~200K maxing out TSP's, not sure what our net is though
1 toddler

150 utilities
90  cable/internet
100 cellphones
1600 childcare (one spouse works part time)
450 student loans
1600 Food-grocery/restaurant
2500 PITI 
1800 miscellaneous (gas, target, car insur, copays)
=total approx $8300/month

feels like we are not saving much outside of our retirements right now but haven't checked.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics