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Less than $20? I buy very few clothes, once in a blue moon, and most of them are second-hand, do my own nails, cut my hair once a year... [/quote]

Ok -- I'm a super low maintenance, ordinary looking 38 year old but this is ridiculous.

I can't break it out by month but my expenditures by year look like:
Clothes: $750/yr (This is from last year. Most of this was a few business suits, work tops, nice but not designer shoes with a few pairs of jeans, casual tops etc. thrown in. I buy the vast majority of my stuff from Thanksgiving to Christmas each yr so I can get a good # of pieces each yr for 500-700 total).
Waxing: $200 (pretty much $50/quarter).
Haircuts: $40 (usually 2 haircuts/yr at a Hair Cuttery kind of joint).
Products: $20 -- hair product, replacing a BB cream if needed etc. (not a daily make up wearer).
Dry cleaning: $30/month = 360/yr (said business suits listed above as well as wool coats, raincoats, cashmere sweaters etc.)

Not a mani/pedi or massage person. Don't color my hair yet though that's coming VERY soon and will up the budget.

So overall that's = $1370/yr = $115/month. And I think I'm CHEAP compared to my peers who spend several hundred per month. IDK if I didn't spend at least $100/month, I'd feel like -- WTH am I working for, JUST to be able to save it and invest it all for retirement, while I cut my own hair and wax my own eyebrows and wear jeans from 20 years ago?? No thanks. I invest plenty, but I need to feel like I'm living a little too. And I'm sorry I don't believe any 37 yr old who says that they don't need to buy new jeans ever bc the ones their mom bought them in 1998 still look good. Uh -- no I promise you they don't. Sure you may fit into them, but you're kidding yourself if you think that no one can see how worn out they are.[/quote]

About the same for me though add another $300 for the years that I need new contacts or glasses. I buy a few years worth of contacts at once and probably update my glasses once every 3-4 years. Maybe those are medical expenses but I think of contacts as cosmetics since I could wear glasses permanently but choose not to for vanity purposes. I too feel cheap amongst my peers — we all make 200k plus or minus 5-7k and I have a feeling other women spend a ton more. At $20/month, I’d feel like a preteen whose parents keep saying no to everything. I have a feeling this is industry specific and those spending $20/month work from home, are slobs in an industry like IT, or are drs in an environment where you wear scrubs. [b]No way a woman in any professional, client facing role[/b] can get away with spending less than $100-200/month at minimum.[/quote]

May I reintroduce you to the first post of the thread?

[quote=Anonymous]We are starting a budget as money is tight. I'm wondering what is a normal monthly budget for [b]a woman who doesn't have to dress to impress (part time child care)[/b] taking into account...hair, nails, make up, skin products, and things like that and then also clothes, shoes, etc. and whatever else I'm missing. I appreciate you sharing your normal monthly expenses.[/quote][/quote]

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