Money Diaries: A 37-year-old product manager on €141K living in Dublin https://jrnl.ie/5908015

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  1. The high money ones always just seem so stupid and boring.

    That’s the only reason it’s not believable.

    I know plenty of people on good money like this, but none of them are on tesco essentials phone bills or eating Dino bites for dinner or cycling 80 minutes return to drop their kids to creche because they don’t want to spend money on a second car.

    NOT BUYING IT MATE

  2. €100/month for electricity for a family of 4 and working from home and charging an electric car? He must use a pen and paper in the dark for work

  3. 30 euro for internet and 9.99 for phone. These deals don’t exist long term. Maybe for the first 6 months. I smell cows … Wait, it could be Bulls …

  4. I’d love if they got someone on this money who was just a lunatic with spending.

    Monday: Lose a €500 bet on division 3 football in Indonesia

    Tuesday: 16 pints of Guinness in Toners. €100 on flaming sambucas in Xico. Taxi home €50. Cleaning for the vomit in the taxi €150.

    Wednesday: Meet with the divorce solicitor, €150 an hour, 3 hour meeting, €450. Spend €500 in Brown Thomas to make myself feel better.

    Thursday: Take a work trip to London. Get smashed on the plane, spend the day hitting bars and end up in a strip club. €1,500

    Friday: Fucked from the week, quiet Chinese €30. €10,000 on the horses. They all lose.

    Weekly spend: fucked.

  5. If you have a high mortgage (like 2.5-3k a month), a couple of kids in creche and a spouse who’s not a high earner you won’t have a lot of money on 140k.

    Remember the government takes about 62 of it off you before you start, creches are a grand a month per kidm
    I know lots of people, married families with combined pre-tax incomes well north of 200k who don’t have much money. They’re obviously not poor, but we live in a social democracy, so it’s hard to get rich unless you are on huge money.

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