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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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[doseybat.livejournal.com]

pretty bad atm.. £30 - £40? *cringe* i think that will reduce drastically as soon as we have somewhere proper to live.

i expect £30 would be a reasonable average; if i was paid a normal wage i would be happy with that.

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[lethargic-man.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Seems I'm on the low side of average, then; even adding in a tenner a week for £300 Limmud (http://www.limmud.org/conf/conf2004/imagine) once a year plus quarterly train ticket to Newcastle averaged out across the year.

Which is interesting, because it comes out as a bit less than the quarterly-odd trip to Dundee, quarterly-odd to Newcastle, occasional youth hostel or trip to Cambridge, but no Limmud I was doing last year (for values of last year ending mid-December, when I split up with livredor). I'd thought Limmud would be a bigger hit averaged out than it actually is.

Though this of course only applies at the present; I'm sure my expenditure will bump back up again if I get myself into another relationship...