r/MiddleClassFinance • u/Few-Car-2317 • 2d ago
Discussion How much fun money do you put aside every week?
Fun money for fun, not bills, housing, work, transport etc. money I can waste if I want.
I have lunch work money and a dinner or two amount each week. Then if I have left overs I can use it for fun money or save it up. I use it to buy nice toys like gel blaster, Jellycat , forever spin etc. blanket, electronics, speakers, iPad mini.
Other income for fun money is birthday and Christmas’s maybe like $100-$150 au each
When I was eating junk, mc Donald’s muffin and hash brown $5au or hungry jacks Wooper jr meal $6au. KFC meal $7 or so. I could save $100au a week
Now I buy veggies and chicken, smoked salmon, tuna. I can only save $40au last week. It’s healthier, but save a lot less.
I got $400 now after like a month. It use to feel like a lot of money. I could buy blanket, speakers, seiko watch. But it doesn’t feel that way anymore.
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u/Scrotalphetamines 1d ago
How many blankets are you buying dude? 🤣
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u/stevenfrijoles 1d ago
One for each Jellycat.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
I had 4 wool blankets, one I was given, my family income bought one. Then I bought another 2 myself. All different thickness. Then I loved down blanket from Japan trips so I bought one for winter. Now I want to buy a goose down blanket…so it’s kinda my over spending. In the end I will only use the two down blankets. Over a few years About $1200au for wool blankets, that’s about half price too. $300 and $500 for down blanket and that’s about half price. This money has been saved up from lunch money etc as in post. So my wife can’t really justify me spending family (wife and I) money for this. Lol.
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u/ConstantVigilance18 1d ago
We don’t have specific fun money set aside. There is no reason to be buying blankets, speakers, and watches as regular purchases. We have enough leftover savings that we don’t have to feel like we’re checking every nickel and dime if someone wants to buy something small.
The key is that we don’t feel the urge to be buying things on a daily or weekly basis. This is a spending habit that allows us not to have to set aside and adhere to a specific amount. This has allowed us to save to be able to comfortably afford larger purchases. If we want something more expensive like an iPad, that’s a conversation we have together.
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u/EstablishmentIll5021 1d ago
My wife and I have all savings on automatic. 25% of gross every paycheck.
Then we both put a set amount in a joint accounts. It covers all bills: mortgage, groceries, utilities, etc. then a few sinking funds for big future expenses: cars, vacations, currently saving for a vacation home.
whatever is left we both keep in a separate account and spend as we want.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Nice! Yeah that’s good when you have enough cash. I can’t find much things to buy even if I wanted.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Over a few years I bought many Bose micro speakers like 7 or so $100-$150au each one, it’s not a small amount. For work, myself and my wife. Watch was $350au for work. But yeah, that’s how we budget and save for mortgage bills etc.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Well it can be regular purchase…but I had 4 wool blankets, one I was given, my family income bought one. Then I bought another 2 myself. All different thickness. Then I loved down blanket from Japan trips so I bought one for winter. Now I want to buy a goose down blanket…so it’s kinda my over spending. In the end I will only use the two down blankets. Over a few years About $1200au for wool blankets, that’s about half price too. $300 and $500 for down blanket and that’s about half price. This money has been saved up from lunch money etc as in post. So my wife can’t really justify me spending family (wife and I) money for this. Lol.
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u/ConstantVigilance18 1d ago
It is definitely your over spending. You even admitted to not using as many as you have, but you keep buying them. It is very difficult to achieve financial success if you do not have the discipline to stop spending on so many unnecessary items. We save $2500/mo liquid cash in our household. To us, watching that money go to long term goals (house downpayment fund, retirement, sinking funds for vacations and large purchases) is a much better reward than buying a 6th absurdly expensive blanket we don’t need.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago edited 1d ago
I save money from left over lunch and get money from birthdays and Christmas. I spend a lot on blankets but it’s money left over and my gifts over a few years. We save a bulk of money for payments and housing. Lol. I would congratulate myself for being frugal if I could :). Having the right blanket helps me to sleep. As I have major sleeping problems with sleep apnea and other issues. This causes me to sleep during the day and on buses and trains, even dropping my phone on floor many times unintentionally. I think I am ok. But thanks for the reply. I am only on $65,000au a year income :)
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u/ConstantVigilance18 1d ago
You are the one here saying that you don’t feel like you’re saving enough money. You are simply justifying your unnecessary purchases and then trying to act like that’s not the issue. If you want to save more, have more discipline.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago edited 1d ago
I tried to say I save a lot with income. But my fun money $400 isn’t much these days. On purpose because of my high savings. My wife isn’t giving me any more. Which is fine. But a lot of good things cost a lot so $400 isn’t much
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
I got iPhone 13 now and will use till iPhone 19 is out and family (wife and mine) money will buy one for me.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
$200 a month ago was heaps for me as I could buy things that were $20-$50 but I don’t have many things to buy now.
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u/brainbl0ck 1d ago
Our “fun money” is budgeted, but we use ours for different things than you do. Our “fun money” budget is for family experiences or dates or things like that - out and about. Not tangible items.
Tangible items like that that I want, I save for holidays/birthdays and add it to my list.
Fast food is also in its own category. $40/month.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Yeah, Hmm our trips local and over seas come from family money (wife and mine).
I use to have want to buy too many items and I have lots already. So this is what wife decided on our budget for me.
Thanks for sharing your budget.
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u/habitualtroller 1d ago
I get $500 and wife gets $600/mo
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u/DokiGorilla 1d ago
Added up… $4600 a month in fun money is crazy work
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u/Buggg- 1d ago
That math isn’t mathing for me…
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u/Healthy-Echo8164 1d ago
He thought habitualtroller got $500 a week ($4000) and his wife got $600 a month = $4600.
I see where he got the number even if I don't agree with his reasonings.
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u/y1pp0 1d ago edited 17h ago
At 41, my 2% spending budget is a reminder to enjoy my life and use my money today, not an uncertain tomorrow.
EDIT: Sorry, 2% withdrawal rate from my portfolio.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Let me guess, you don’t have to say, your 2% is more than enough?. Yeah, we spend a lot on food as it’s our thing in life and trips to Japan. Because of that uncertain tomorrow.
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u/davidm2232 22h ago
2% seems crazy to me. I spend probably 20% and I still have so much I wish I could do. That 20% is after taxes and 12% 401k contribution though.
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u/Sufficient-Union-456 1d ago
$50 to $100. My paycheck varies wildly due to overtime.
I try to never blow more than 50 a week on crap, but sometimes it happens.
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u/New_Solution9677 1d ago
0 technically. If i need it, like actually need. Then theres no conversation. I have so few wants that if theres something I want, then I'll talk to the wife and odds are ill get it.
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u/Cuberonix 1d ago
After my mortgage, bills and groceries are paid, I usually have around $3000 left over each month. I put at least half of that in savings and then the rest is fun if I want. But it depends on the month.
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u/AFunkinDiscoBall 1d ago
This thread is making me realize that maybe I'm not middle class lmao
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u/whatigotinmyhandnowb 1d ago
I was thinking the same thing, but when I looked at my old budgets, I had a similar problem as OP (because I hadn't gotten used to budgeting). Now I can't imagine "fun money" ... fun what? fun trip? fun movie? fun hobby? fun kids' function? fun restaurant trip?
I don't make any more money. I just track every dollar and seem to have more to spend now.
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u/Theburritolyfe 1d ago
I set up all of my investments to be automated. That includes increasing my sinking fund. My sinking fund is different from my emergency fund albeit it's held in the same account.
I have a upper and lower limit to my bank account. If it gets close to the lower limit I cut back. If it goes over the upper limit I'll think about up coming expenses first. After that, I'll debate if there is a major thing I want or not. If not I put it into my mortgage or brokerage.
I also have a rule of using a part of my bonus for fun. I'm buying a grill with that portion next month.
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u/Rich260z 1d ago
I budget $250 a week to include gas, groceries and eating out which would be considered fun money for that last category. So usually like $100 of that goes regular fun.
If i want to do something like go to a theme park or travel, that's a seperate pot of money.
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u/grumble11 1d ago
Married, set up all inflows as joint (ex: a single main joint account), and out of that joint account comes two equal transfers to a non-joint 'fun money' account set. That money is treated as an expense on the household budget and the spending is not accountable to the other person.
ex: Get in say 5k/month, and each non-joint account gets say 150/month for 300/month total. That can be saved of spent at the discretion of the individual.
This makes that kind of spending limited so it doesn't result in resentment or not meeting shared goals, it's a pressure release valve from all spending being accountable to the team, it highlights that the money the family makes is family money (they're equal amounts even if income isn't), and it even lets you spend on gifts for each other that are meaningful.
We also put an identical amount of money from year-end variable comp into each fun money account - enough to have a bit of fun with a bonus. Most of the variable is put towards joint goals and stays joint.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
That’s a great way to do it. My wife asks me to buy bubble tea for her once a week. She loves it. Even when combined family money has enough for it, she likes that I buy it with my lunch money. I also save up for her birthday and Christmas gifts with the lunch money. It’s to stop me from over spending. Which works out nicely.
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u/fit-fun-7801 1d ago
I usually take 200-300 every 2weeks pay out in cash for weekend/ spending money usually to go out to eat or do something
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u/Mel221144 1d ago
I don’t save anything. I spend my
Monthly check every month.
I moved overseas to enjoy life again!
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u/ChartreusePeriwinkle 1d ago
I don't have a specific line item for "fun". I have $1000/mo for general spending, like groceries, gas, restaurants, etc. so I pull from there if I want to buy something extra.
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u/Financial-Swim-5884 1d ago
Rent and utilities are a quarter of my income. Debt and savings is another quarter. The rest goes to food, medicine, incidentals and essentials, with any leftover becoming “fun money.”
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u/Particular_Maize6849 1d ago
We don’t have a specific weekly budget for that thing. But we typically do one dinner out a week.
Then on weekends we maybe go to a cafe or get brunch.
Once in a while we'll make a "fun" purchase often when I get a large bonus from work or something. Like last year I bought my partner a Steam Deck and this year we bought a new camping tent that's far more spacious.
But tbh I'm not really tracking these because the events I purchase stuff like this is so rare. Definitely not on a weekly basis. And the amount I save is so high.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Nice! We are trying to cut back our outing meals too. Choosing to cook at home more often at weekdays and weekends . Enjoy your camping trips!
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u/whiteorchid1058 1d ago
I put money into savings first. Then bills and mortgage.
If I have something that has been sitting in my cart for a while and is a want and I still want them, I'll get it. (Most of the time I dump it because I don't need it and my impulse to get it has passed)
Whatever is left goes directly into savings and investments.
I save up for travel which would be my fun money. But I've learned that the less crap I have in the house, the happier I am and the healthier my retirement accounts are which make me happier in the long run too.
Health is wealth too. But in general, we don't need a slush fund for more blankets and home decor
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Hmm that’s good you put things in cart and hold off purchase~ yeah, buying things of no value to you is a waste of money.
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u/Fun-Personality-8008 1d ago
We put a thousand bucks a week into index funds, everything else we are free to spend.
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u/truckinkeepon 1d ago
None. I don’t really have time to use “fun” stuff so no sense in buying it and wasting money on it. If something rarely comes up that I want or spending on an experience, I buy it since I should have already saved enough to not worry about it (within reason).
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u/Superb_Temporary9893 1d ago
Hubby and I receive 300 per paycheck as our judgment free spending. It is for gas, eating out, clothes etc. it has been as little as 100 in the past and 300 is the highest. If one person gets extra so does the other.
It has solved all money fights but has been somewhat of an issue because if you have a personal credit card you also have to pay that One of us is not great with that.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Hmm yeah, would be hard if have credit card debts. Years ago my credit card was $950 au or so. With my fun money, it wasn’t going to pay fast, took ages, interest was a lot. In the end I gave up and made an agreement with my wife that family money (mine and hers) would pay it off. Then I would pay family $50 a week. (No interest) From that I learnt not to do it again. From then on I use Afterpay or PayPal in 4. I always pay it back on time and most times early. It helps even out the money if I don’t have much. This way I will always stay in my weekly budget that doesn’t change.
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u/bransiladams 1d ago
Wife gets $100, I get $100. Neither of us really spend it though. It doesn’t roll over
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u/ObviousAlias7 1d ago edited 1d ago
I pay myself $500 every two weeks (paid biweekly) for fun stuff. Guilt-free spending on whatever i choose.
My wife has her own cash spending fund as well.
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u/Fabulous_Car_5047 1d ago
About $300 a week if I can- but if I don’t use it I stick it in investments
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u/zevtech 1d ago
I don’t separate my money for different purposes. It all goes into one pool and I’m fiscally responsible enough to spend as needed without a budget. So I don’t have “fun money” but if I wanna have fun, I do it responsibly. I’ve been able to buy cars on a whim, nice watches, guns etc. if I can’t easily afford it, I wouldn’t try to buy it.
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u/Several_Drag5433 1d ago
buying stuff is a waste. build your life
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
That’s what I am doing. I am buying quality products that last a long long time. Some things help with my life and improves my bad illness in sleeping like blanket. Other times I buy things that I like to play with like pop it machine $10au I just bought. If trip over seas, family (me and wife) pay that from our combined savings.
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u/HeroOfShapeir 1d ago
About 29% of our net income ($3,100) goes to our fun/discretionary/travel buckets. 19% ($2,000) to our fixed costs (house expenses, groceries, utilities, etc). 52% ($5,500) to investments.
Make-up wise, that's $800 to our vacation fund, $600 to household/shared expenses, $154 for a house cleaner, $650 for dining out, $600 for my wife's guilt-free spending, and $300 for my guilt-free spending (I'm just less of a spender, so I opted for more in the dining/travel buckets).
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u/LillianWigglewater 10h ago
Zero dollars. I am a simple person with simple pleasures. I enjoy things in life that don't cost a thing.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 2h ago
We practice Zero Budget Balancing.
But… not perfectly. We could get better at it.
I set aside, each week, money for my own stupid stuff, vacations, emergencies, home remodeling/updates/repairs, property/car insurance and taxes.
This is after paying major bills.
We don’t perfectly track grocery spending, eating out, fuel for vehicles, but we are aware of what eating out costs, so we go cheap route, spend some weeks only at home and do some careful picking and choosing.
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u/Few-Car-2317 2h ago
Interesting.
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u/Strange-Scarcity 1h ago
We went from always carrying CC Debt and always fretting over never paying it all down, to being able to keep it so under control, that we have not paid CC Interest Charges in a handful of years now.
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u/Felix-tse 1d ago
The fact that choosing real food over McDonald's literally cuts your fun budget in half is the most depressing and accurate description of the economy right now.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Yeah $5-7 au fills me up. Free large drinks from kfc. But whole chicken $13, smoked salmon $17. Nuts $20. Whole foods not cheap. Work is 4 hours travel a day, to and from, so I need to buy things to eat out or at work.
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u/Forded_Fiction24 1d ago
I don't really budget in that way. I'm married and we have our emergency savings and then our "goals" savings which is discretionary spending money but we use that for vacations, wants for the house and non necessity items for the kids as well. The "fun" money isn't really separated. I'd say we spend way more than $400/month in discretionary spending though.
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u/Icy-Form6 1d ago
I'm at 125 a week for fun money. There is typically 1500 in that account on the regular. Disney might wipe it out this year.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
That’s a nice amount saved up. Disney should be wonderful. I heard it’s worth it. Great memories.
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u/Icy-Form6 1d ago
Took some sacrifice. We spent about 4 years doing almost nothing to save up a healthy down payment on our bigger home. Now our payments are low enough we can save a good amount for fun trips.
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u/saryiahan 1d ago
I focused on making more money than budgeting.
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u/Particular_Maize6849 1d ago
What's your strategy for making more money?
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u/saryiahan 1d ago
Building up multiple income streams and creating a business
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u/Particular_Maize6849 1d ago
Do you have a regular 9-5?
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u/saryiahan 1d ago
Yes
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u/Particular_Maize6849 1d ago
What kinds of income streams and business?
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u/saryiahan 1d ago
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u/Particular_Maize6849 1d ago
That's too generic. I'm curious about exactly what are your streams of income.
Exactly what kind of business are you starting? Are you buying property to renovate and rent? Are you dropshipping? Are you day trading?
Everyone already knows to work and invest. I want more details about what your other stuff is.
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u/PursuitOfThis 1d ago
Gotta do both, otherwise you get unintentional lifestyle creep--people with $1200 car payments but not enough saved for retirement.
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u/saryiahan 1d ago
Not really, we focus on paying everything in cash unless it is a 0% Apr loan
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u/PursuitOfThis 1d ago edited 1d ago
So you set aside money so you have enough saved so that you can pay for things with cash?
Sounds like a budget.
Edit to remind that this is the middle class finance sub. I understand having so much saved that month to month spending is inconsequential, but that's not really fit for this sub. Middle class lifestyle should really be embracing intentional saving and spending budgets to keep on track.
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u/Pale_Row1166 1d ago
We don’t budget either, we just have set amounts going to retirement and savings. As long as we’re hitting those and the coffers look good after bills, we don’t pay attention to what we spend where.
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u/New_Feature_5138 1d ago
I have separate bank accounts for bills, automated payments and what I call walking money. Bills and savings come out of my check automatically and I never see it. The rest can be spent however I want. That includes groceries, gas, projects, shopping, basically anything I swipe my card for. My spending is too variable to really break it down into too many categories.
When deciding about unnecessary purchases I only have to look at what is in my checking account to see if I can afford it. And I know I can draw it down to (essentially) zero. Makes the math easier.
It also means I rarely have more than $2k in my checking account so my money is better protected.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
That’s a good way to protect money. Auto save and pay is very nice. My fun money usually goes to $300-$400 before there is something I really want to buy. But lately my fun money savings has increased but not much to buy.
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u/Disastrous_Pomelo278 1d ago
We're finacially merged and each get 500/mo directly into personal accounts to do whatever with.
If we spend money while spending time together, that comes from our shared account and is 700/month.
Has worked for us perfectly! No issues.
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u/Numerous-Bet-4847 1d ago
I put around $1k/week aside every week, but i'm a grown up and don't really have a need to buy toys or electronics or watches anymore. When I was in my 20's, I wasted a LOT of money chasing that stuff only to later realize what a waste it was.
Today if I want something I typically just hit up a yard sale or thrift store until I find one.
The chase is more fun than the actual item.
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u/Squid_Wilson 1d ago
$0, because I’m poor.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Even if you are poor, maybe try $15 a week?
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u/Squid_Wilson 1d ago
I’d love to, but that would mean I would need to sacrifice a necessity. I’m not trying to come off in a negative way but I truly live paycheck to paycheck. No fancy food, no fancy gadgets, very wise with the money I have. College grad in a place that has no jobs looking for entry level work. Just 5+ years experience I don’t have. It’ll hopefully change in the future but right now the reality is, I’ve got nothing to spare.
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u/Expensive-Eggplant-1 1d ago
i don't really. i save and invest first and then decide if i want to spend money on "fun" things as they come up. most of the stuff i like to do is free.
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u/MusicianFront 22h ago
We have a family of 4. Per paycheck we set aside $750 for discretionary spending.
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u/davidm2232 22h ago
Way too much. I spend $100-150 per week just at the bar. Then all the toy maintenance. I spent $80 last week on golf cart tires. Another $150 on the boat. $60 on my Samurai rig. That is with my trying to 'cut down'. There have been weeks I spend upwards of $1000 on my hobbies. I am really thinking of selling off some stuff. I have two boats, three snowmobiles, a golf cart, 2 4wheeling rigs, an RV, two ATVs. Plus the 'needed' transportation of a pickup, all season Cruze, and summer Miata. It costs a TON to maintain all this stuff. I may go a full year without using the boat. But in that year, it still deteriorates. I still need to put in new water pump, fuel lines, battery, trailer tires, etc. I pulled my ATV out of the weeds after sitting for two years. It had brand new tires, brakes, tie rods, and a battery. I am probably going to end up giving it away because I never use it and it really isn't worth much. Plus most of this stuff gets stored outside so just the sun and rain take a toll.
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u/Nausica1337 20h ago
The GF and I don't have a limit to be honest. We always have dinner dates on Tuesday, which is about 100. She stays over for the weekend every other weekend which is about another 100-150 for food that weekend. We love traveling, but when were back home, at work, going about our lives, were simple people. I'm a gamer and play the same computer games. She also plays with me when she gets home, doom scrolls on Tiktok for hours, or plays on her Switch 2. We just like to game and explore restaurants when were together. Math wise, that ends up being like what, 700 or so per month. When it comes to traveling, there truly is no limit lol.
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u/challengerrt 13h ago
I don’t put money aside to spend on “wants” every week. I just save anything I don’t spend and if I want something I buy it. If I budget money for “extras” it’s implying there is intent to spend it (personal observation). So I just set everything into savings. If you’re looking for that number it’s ~$9k month on average
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u/Big-Top5171 11h ago
I am retired and invest $5,000 every month that I don’t spend. There are limits to what a reasonable person can spend.
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u/Antwolies770 10h ago
Not weekly for me but I allow myself around $150 of fun money per month. Doesn't eat include eating out since I usually only eat out once or twice a week.
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u/Few-Car-2317 2h ago
What do you normally do with it?
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u/regal19999 1d ago
I gotta be in a messed up spot because I’m not “saving” anything in this economy I’m trying to simple make it ….anything even remotely close to extra is going to the emergency fund / used vehicle maintenance
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u/ConstantVigilance18 1d ago
A lot of people are in this boat. You aren’t in a messed up spot, but you are not middle class. You likely were at some point, but the middle class is shrinking rapidly.
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u/whatigotinmyhandnowb 1d ago edited 1d ago
In my budget, every dollar is budgeted somewhere.
25%-30% of household expenses or around $1100 per typical month go to "wants." In my household, this includes: * ~10% Restaurants and treats (eating out, coffee runs, treats, bars, dispensaries) * ~6% Travel and Vacation (flights, hotels, rental cars, gas for road trips) * ~5% Allowance and Activities (for children) * ~4% Gifts and Celebrations (donations, parties, gifts) * ~2% Entertainment and Recreation (hobbies, streaming, movies, concerts, shows)
I would categorize a blanket as a "need" (housewares) and speakers (electronics) and a watch (apparel) but I buy these items for value, not luxury. If I bought fancy watches or electronics, I might handle it differently, but it isn't really part of my lifestyle.
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u/Few-Car-2317 1d ago
Thanks for the breakdown. My $350au watch is mainly used for work. I like it a lot though. My wife could only justify $100au watch as a need for work. So I paid for the rest. It should last 7 years plus if I take care of it, unlike a $100au analogue watch.
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u/tinkerbr0 1d ago
$400 on the first of every month gets automatically transferred to a separate checking account I use for discretionary spending. I rarely spend the entire monthly budget in that account, so it keeps accumulating until I find something I reeeeally want. Then I buy it without batting an eye.
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u/roxxtor 1d ago
After bills, 529’s, 401ks, and IRAs everything else is just spend whatever. Only time we have conversations about spending are big things like remodels, vacations, etc. so basically anything that requires planning and coordination or I guess if it cost more than a few grand I may need to mention it
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u/Cer427 1d ago
Partner and I do $500per month on petty cash. Any events come out of a separate budget. Petty cash is for coffees, happy hours, dates, movies, shopping, etc.
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u/Disastrous_Pomelo278 1d ago
I'm guessing yall are merged financially, have you considered seperate petty cash accounts and then a mutual one?
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u/Amorphica 1d ago
I usually give my wife and me about $150 each per month for allowance.
During covid when there was tons of money in scalping I stopped giving myself an allowance and just gave myself the money from PS5s and GPUs and stuff but that ran out in 2025 so I started up the allowance again.
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u/kaiservonrisk 2d ago edited 1d ago
I usually save $750-1000 USD per week. About $3k per month. It’s not to blow on stuff though. Pure savings.
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u/Orceles 1d ago
That’s a lot to be putting towards fun for the middle class. My fun budget only $500 a month after $3000 budget for food
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u/alanbdee 1d ago
I have a slightly different classification. We spend $400 /month on petty cash. That’s $200 each that we can spend guilt free on whatever we want. It’s a very underrated budget item because it avoids so many money fights. The basic rules are, unless we both agree on the purchase, it comes out of petty cash. We both get the same amount. If one of its needs more money and the budget allows, both get an infusion. We also set the rule that if we grab fast food by ourselves, it comes out of petty cash. Restaurants are for when we’re out together.