Happiest Wage?
Originally Posted by markjmd 
"Opps just realised take home pay on £50k is no where near £3k a month."
Eh? It's almost exactly £3K, to within just a few pounds.
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"Opps just realised take home pay on £50k is no where near £3k a month."
Eh? It's almost exactly £3K, to within just a few pounds.
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Did that take off national insurance ???
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I think the issue (and I don't mean to single you out J4cko) is that people may become accustomed to certain things in life or a certain way of doing things.
Not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but up here in Lincs I could easily run everything J4cko has on a £50k wage. Hell me and the Mrs are gonna have a little 'un next Feb/March time and I'll only be on approx £13k and her £11k then.
You manage at the end of the day and my philosophy is to use the hard times as motivation to earn more and have ££ for the nice things. I learn't that when loosing my old job 2 years ago and going from £22k in a warehouse to £49.00 a week dole
Not sure if it's the same elsewhere, but up here in Lincs I could easily run everything J4cko has on a £50k wage. Hell me and the Mrs are gonna have a little 'un next Feb/March time and I'll only be on approx £13k and her £11k then.
You manage at the end of the day and my philosophy is to use the hard times as motivation to earn more and have ££ for the nice things. I learn't that when loosing my old job 2 years ago and going from £22k in a warehouse to £49.00 a week dole
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Here you go
£8,000.00 per month or £96,000.00 per annum for staying at home, in a 2.1m house at the taxpayers expence and recently upgraded to this area because they did not lik living in a poorer part of London not too sure you will find a lot happier anywhere...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...poor-area.html
Please explain how they could/would be happier working for thier money given their current income and previous job experience of a £6.50 per hour bus conductor and cleaner???
£8,000.00 per month or £96,000.00 per annum for staying at home, in a 2.1m house at the taxpayers expence and recently upgraded to this area because they did not lik living in a poorer part of London not too sure you will find a lot happier anywhere...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...poor-area.html
Please explain how they could/would be happier working for thier money given their current income and previous job experience of a £6.50 per hour bus conductor and cleaner???
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I'm pretty sure I'd not do much different if our household income doubled.
We'd only spend more doing what we already do.
I'd think about PX'ing the signum for a BMW 520, I'd still have a car. I'd get a carbon race bike with Dura ace components, I'd still have a bike. I'd spend more on a ski holiday...............I'd spend more on a mortgage.
None of these things would really make me happier. Quite happy with my lot and I realise there are planty worse off.
We'd only spend more doing what we already do.
I'd think about PX'ing the signum for a BMW 520, I'd still have a car. I'd get a carbon race bike with Dura ace components, I'd still have a bike. I'd spend more on a ski holiday...............I'd spend more on a mortgage.
None of these things would really make me happier. Quite happy with my lot and I realise there are planty worse off.
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This doesn't work with me in all honesty.
Yes, 30 years ago I was penniless with debts around my neck - and I do spend more now than then ..... but when you spend what you need to spend having more doesn't make me spend more.
But, as Leslie rightly says .. the more I have the more I seem to accumulate ..
Yes, 30 years ago I was penniless with debts around my neck - and I do spend more now than then ..... but when you spend what you need to spend having more doesn't make me spend more.
But, as Leslie rightly says .. the more I have the more I seem to accumulate ..
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I'm pretty sure I'd not do much different if our household income doubled.
We'd only spend more doing what we already do.
I'd think about PX'ing the signum for a BMW 520, I'd still have a car. I'd get a carbon race bike with Dura ace components, I'd still have a bike. I'd spend more on a ski holiday...............I'd spend more on a mortgage.
None of these things would really make me happier. Quite happy with my lot and I realise there are planty worse off.
We'd only spend more doing what we already do.
I'd think about PX'ing the signum for a BMW 520, I'd still have a car. I'd get a carbon race bike with Dura ace components, I'd still have a bike. I'd spend more on a ski holiday...............I'd spend more on a mortgage.
None of these things would really make me happier. Quite happy with my lot and I realise there are planty worse off.
I agree to some extent, but if ones income doubled it wouldn't be about buying a bigger car/bike/watch etc it would be about accumulating a bigger financial 'cushion' which means knowing that you could cope with any sort of disaster without stress. Also perhaps retiring earlier.
Would it make me happier if my income doubled? I wouldn't be happier as such, but a lot more relaxed knowing that my retirement would be a very financially care free one, and my family well looked after shsould I pop my clogs
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I agree to some extent, but if ones income doubled it wouldn't be about buying a bigger car/bike/watch etc it would be about accumulating a bigger financial 'cushion' which means knowing that you could cope with any sort of disaster without stress. Also perhaps retiring earlier.
Would it make me happier if my income doubled? I wouldn't be happier as such, but a lot more relaxed knowing that my retirement would be a very financially care free one, and my family well looked after shsould I pop my clogs
Would it make me happier if my income doubled? I wouldn't be happier as such, but a lot more relaxed knowing that my retirement would be a very financially care free one, and my family well looked after shsould I pop my clogs
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"Whoever says money doesn't buy happiness doesn't know where to shop!" - Unknown. 
I do sometimes wonder how some people live on the kind of wages one would get by, for example, working in retail etc.... especially when they have a family. I don't think that a decent wage is a pre-requsite for happiness, but it certainly helps!.....
Now, if only I could get one!
I do sometimes wonder how some people live on the kind of wages one would get by, for example, working in retail etc.... especially when they have a family. I don't think that a decent wage is a pre-requsite for happiness, but it certainly helps!
..... Now, if only I could get one!
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