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[lethargic_man]

I seem to have taken going to the Marom Bet Midrash and Shmooze quite a bit. They both cost £5 including food (at the level of bagel and smoked salmon), which is a bit of a hit expenditure-wise. It's occurred to me I have little of a handle on what people consider normal expenditure on leisure activities. What sort of figure do you come up with, if you don't mind me asking, if you were to tot up your average weekly expenditure on such things as drinks, eating out, films, cigarettes, etc? And what sort of figure would you think would be average for middle-class people such as myself and most of the readers of this blog?

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You don't really want my answers to this cos you know I'm mean with money and not really in an equivalent economic situation to yours. I know plenty of people a lot poorer than you (eg students who earn basically nothing and borrow to be able to exist at all) who think nothing of spending £20-£25 on an evening out maybe a couple of times a week. As for cigarettes, anyone who smokes is almost certainly spending more than a fiver a week on cigarettes.

I just wanted to point out that I don't think 'middle-class' is the relevant descriptor here. Because it's a social definition, not a financial definition. A middle-class person who is recently out of university and paying off debts but hasn't got a professional job yet, or a middle-class person raising a family on one-and-a-half incomes, is in a completely different economic situation from you. It would be more relevant to ask about, say, single people in professional jobs.