buzz Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 I know I've read somewhere some of the answers to my questions below, but can't find it now. We are busy preparing a budget and would appreciate it if anyone could give us more exact figures for the list below. At the moment we are looking at 2 possible opportunities: One in Sydney and the other in a small rural town. We are a family of 4: 2 adults and two children (ages 6 & 8). We will be renting for the first year and are prepared to spend between $600 and $800 per week. We have permanent resident status. The following is based on MONTHLY expenses:1) Groceries 2) Water, gas, electricity, etc3) Car insurance (one small car and one family car - something like a Honda CRV, Nissan Murano)4) Household insurance5) Internet and cable6) Income protection7) Fuel8) Mobile phone contracts9) Extra mural activities for children (E.g. swimming lessons, gymnastics, horse riding, drama, soccer)10) Clothes11) Private medical aid 12) Any thing else I've missed...Any advise will be appreciated! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
21yearsoutofrsa Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 (edited) I know I've read somewhere some of the answers to my questions below, but can't find it now. We are busy preparing a budget and would appreciate it if anyone could give us more exact figures for the list below. At the moment we are looking at 2 possible opportunities: One in Sydney and the other in a small rural town. We are a family of 4: 2 adults and two children (ages 6 & 8). We will be renting for the first year and are prepared to spend between $600 and $800 per week. We have permanent resident status. The following is based on MONTHLY expenses:1) Groceries Coles.com.au2) Water, gas, electricity, etc iselect.com.au3) Car insurance (one small car and one family car - something like a Honda CRV, Nissan Murano) youi.com.au nrma.com.au4) Household insurance racq.com.au5) Internet and cable tpg.com.au Telstra.com.au6) Income protectioni iselect.com.au7) Fuel racq.com.au8) Mobile phone contracts vodafone.com.au Telstra.com.au9) Extra mural activities for children (E.g. swimming lessons, gymnastics, horse riding, drama, soccer)10) Clothes11) Private medical aid iselect.com.au12) Any thing else I've missed...Any advise will be appreciated! Expenses vary from family to family, these sites will let you virtually shop. Edited September 23, 2013 by 17yearsoutofrsa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillian1 Posted September 23, 2013 Report Share Posted September 23, 2013 (edited) Hi BuzzNot sure if this might be useful for you but a friend of ours living in a suburb of Brisbane kindly put these figures together for us. He has a wife (not working) and 3 kids (under 10 years old). He has a lovely home that he rents and a good life. This is based on a salary of $90 000 per annum. He has broken down what these expenses work out to per month. Just thought I'd share. I have a lovely excel sheet with more info based on weekly, fortnightly, monthly and an annual basis. If you would like this please send me your email and I'll email it to you. Anyone else who would like them please feel free to PM me your email addresses.Expense per monthMobile Phone $43.33Car insurance $37Car Service $65Car registration $86Petrol $260House insurance $55Private health (family extras) $30Gas $130Electricity $150Water $100Council rates $150School extras ($1000 per child per year) $166.67 - and he says the principal says this is too muchSchool clothes $62.50Rent $2340Car $300Shopping $1083.33Internet +phone plan $50Total per month $5108.83His salary monthly is $5615Left over each month $506.17 Edited September 23, 2013 by Gillian1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buzz Posted September 24, 2013 Author Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thank you for this - it did help a lot! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mittwelt Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Hi! I would love your spreadsheets too!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gillian1 Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Hi MittweltI have posted it under a new thread "expenses sheet" under general forums. Couldn't figure out how to attached it here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mittwelt Posted September 24, 2013 Report Share Posted September 24, 2013 Thank you so much!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
z3n71n3l Posted October 5, 2013 Report Share Posted October 5, 2013 (edited) Hey guys ive read about something called the bigmac index. This is where you would basically calculate how many mac burgers your zar monies can buy and then you calculate how many in dollars that amount of macburgers wil cost you. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Mac_Index Edited October 5, 2013 by z3n71n3l Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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