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Join Date: Oct 2006
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i'm 18, get roughhly $400 clear per week. not bad
$150 pw on rent $100 on food, i like to eat something other than 2 min noodles $20 a week on gas if that, the advantage of living 200m from work and all your mates drive/live close. and the rest either is saved for next week or goes on clothes, footy etc.. i get by alright, been doing this since the first day i was 18, so bout six months now. all my mates who still live at home don't know how good they have it. one of my mates earns 700 clear a fortnoght, gives it to his parents and they pay for EVERYTHING. even if it is more than 700 bucks partzkid |
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Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Eastern Suburbs, Melb
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Interesting to see how some people must have been brought up. I feel like I must not have had much discipline when it came to money, but that's just bullshit excuse. I'd say I more likely just ignored it.
I sit here $20k bad debt to my name and have to pay it off with nothing to show. Luckily for me, I managed to score a job that pays just under $40kpa, has a company car and a fuel card - I'm 22 years old. Had I not found a job like the one I have (no qualifications) I could say I'd be royally fkd. However, I still manage to pay a significant amount more off my loan than the minimum repayment, rent a place, pay for the furniture, pay for groceries, bills, mobile, clothes and anything else I need, have managed to get myself a toy car (injected 5ltr VH SL/E) for the weekends and afford to do work to it, as well as party as hard as I do (always beers/canadians in the fridge) and all that. Budgeting is a major thing regardless of what you earn. I hate when I get to thinking about what my life would be like now if it weren't for the negative equity I've scored myself thanks to being a tool with... you guessed it! cars!
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Interesting thread. I'm 25 and still living at home, will be moving out this year.
When I was 18 I was working part time and studying. Earning about $160 a week. Honestly I was living better back then than I am now. I always seemed to have cash to go out and buy things, go out partying once or twice a week and have plenty of money in the bank. Good times ![]()
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Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: Adelaide, SA
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The world is a different place now... but i guess we might have an opportunity to see how your theory works out over the next few years... Ill leave it here ![]()
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Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Rockingham WA
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cool thread! good to see everyones replys.
when i was 18 back in 2000, moved out with my mates, right into partying etc, was only on about $400/week while at uni.. good times, tonnes of fun. now just got a job as assistant accountant only paying 45k pa but have learned about money management, and am about to move into my 1st house, which due to the boom i now have 150 ish k equity in. good times back then, and alot less money worries haha but i think that i took the right path rather than partying for ever. keep the replys coming guys!
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Join Date: Jul 2005
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nversace: "u doin an apprentiship chris? i didnt know that .. what u doing?"
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What's green is gold
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Shepparton
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Im 20 and have my own place on the old mans property. only pay for the mobile bill and car repayments
I work about 30hrs a week for ~$650ish My money mostly goes on general upkeep on both cars (this week: Dizzy on the EL, Insurance on the XD) And the GF (18) dosent need money, she gets $400/pw allowance from her parents
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Join Date: Jan 2005
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way back in 1981 i was 18,apprentice mechanic on $96 week.worked after school and weekends and owned xb gt outright,petrol was 45cent litre,bundy was cheaper by the flagon,doing a pub crawl was a challange due to number of pub/clubs in a town its size.life was good.
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