How much are your must pay bills every month?!

[Danman]

It's around $2500 a month.

 

[ElFenix]

$2200 or so

 

[shortylickens]

I'm glad somebody wrote "must-pay" because at first I thought the OP was experiencing a seizure or something.


For me:
Rent: 750 (shitty little 650 sq ft apartment, oregon sucks)
Electric: 105 (again, oregon sucks)
Water AND sewage: 55 (yes, in oregon they actually charge you for everything they intend to just take right back and reprocess anyway. The only way I could screw them is if I peed on the lawn or something. Fuck, even california didnt charge me to give them their water back.)
Gasoline: Lets not even discuss that.
Insurance: Split up a months cost is about 106. Interestingly thats about triple what I was paying in the peoples republic of california.
Groceries (I have to eat, its a must-pay): about 200 a month. Again, oregon.

I cant say I really liked it when the Navy stuck me in California. But after I got used to it I wasnt too mad. When I left to take a civilian job in Oregon I honestly thought I was moving to paradise. For some strange reason everyone who lives up here thinks it is. I guess we all have different versions of paradise.
Of course, the fact that most people I meet have never gone more than 50 miles from home in their entire lives might mean something.

EDIT: Own my car, no credit debt.
Of course, I'm unemployed right now and was only making 15 bucks an hour before so I wasnt doing great anyway.

 

[Beev]

545 rent
235 vehicle loan
roughly 200 in utilities
80 in gas
100 food
480 in student loans
50 minimum for cc's

 

[jonks]

rent+loans+cell phone+utilities

$3300

 

[mzinz165]

Originally posted by: quackerww
How much are your must pay bills every month?!
Just wondering.
This includes:
Rent
Car
Credit Cards
Loans
etc.

Food does not count.
Exact figures don't matter.
Just an ave range.

Rent: $750
Car: $400
Insurance: $170
Utilities (Internet/Elec./Water): $200
Cell: $80
Credit Cards: $0
Loans: $0
----------------------
= $1600/month

I make about $3500 a month. I somehow still never have any moneys

 

[Miklebud]

Rent = $362.50
Utilities = ~$30 (Heat) + ~$80 (Comcast) + ~$50 (Electricity) / 2 (split with roommate) = ~$80
Around $445ish

 

[43st]

Home = 1350
Car insurance = 90
Elec. = 90 (with recent rate increase)
Internet = 60
Phone = 20
web hosting = 20

These are our only monthly payments.. fuel oil, natural gas, etc. are as needed.

 

[alkemyst]

Gas- 150
Car - 0
Car Insurance- 150
Phone/Cell- 110
Health 140
cancer 23
vision 6
life insurance 154
pension 85
dental 33
school loans 125
credit cards 975
mortgage 2200
electric 200
water 125
cable 180

This is for two people

 

[Squisher]

House+taxes+ins. = $1300
Car payment = $0
Car ins = $300 (4 cars)
Gas&Electric = $230
Cable+internet+phone = $200
Cell phones (3) = $200
Water+trash = $40

Credit cards = $3000 (I charge everything, food, gas, etc. and the actual bill is usually $6000+, but my wife uses it for business expenses)

 

[Feneant2]

Hmm, rent, car, electricity and all that junk, I'd say around 2000-2500$

It's a lot considering I'm alone I find... but it's that or a lousy apartment.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Bills:

Mortgage - $1700
Car - $376
Electricity - ~$85 (generally, for the summer)
Gas - ~$40 (generally, for the summer)
Water - ~$90 (generally, for the summer, includes lawn irrigation)
Car Ins - $180
Cell phones - ~$100
Loan - $300

~$2850 per month

Expenses:

Car's gas - ~$250
Healthcare - ~$200
Groceries - ~$200


So, about ~$3500 per month total. Not including less necessary expenses like TV/Internet, fun, eating out, etc...

 

[Vehemence]

~$500

 

[JS80]

About $5k.

 

[Deeko]

$2500 for rent/car/student loan/required utils

This does not include optional bills, like cable, phone, cell phone, netflix, sirius, gym

 

[JakwoW]

Just over $2k.

 

[MikeyLSU]

about $2500

 

[hanoverphist]

hmm i think mine will be high enough to scare me.

house:
1400ish w/ utilities

loans:
1000ish

credit cards:
300ish

but realistically, all my bills are "must pay" so ill have to up it to about 4k a month.

 

[AmpedSilence]

Current PA unemployment benefits are $539/week or $2160/month, so that. The rest of what I make goes into savings. Oh, that includes EVERYTHING not just "must pay".

*Note: I'm not on unemployment, in fact, make much more than that, it just provides a good guide to live on for a single, non-parent person (or mostly just me).

 

[acheron]

The bills I normally pay every month are around $3300, not all of those are "must pay" though. (i.e., some of it is DirecTV and shit like that which I could cancel any time without a problem.) Doesn't include food or gasoline. Does include one car payment, but that is about to end (2 payments left). No student loans, but my wife just finished grad school so we'll have to start paying on her loans from that very soon. (Already started on part of it, the rest start in the next few months.) We don't carry credit card debt.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: Squisher
House+taxes+ins. = $1300
Car payment = $0
Car ins = $300 (4 cars)
Gas&Electric = $230
Cable+internet+phone = $200
Cell phones (3) = $200
Water+trash = $40

Credit cards = $3000 (I charge everything, food, gas, etc. and the actual bill is usually $6000+, but my wife uses it for business expenses)

didn't answer the question with that credit card line.

 

[Fritzo]

House: $1600
Cars: $700
Electric: $150-$275
Nat. Gas: $40-$200
Water: $65
Credit Card: $300
Home Equity: $500
Family Health Insurance: $660
Life Insurance: $200

=

$4500/month just to get by.

 

[nageov3t]

rent: $950
car: $4-60 (assuming a tank and a half a month)
gas/electric: $150 (average)
cable/internet: $150
credit card: whatever (if I owe money, I try to make a min. $250 payment, but it's usually 250 + whatever extra I have left after rent is paid)

total: $1,500-ish

 

[Zaitsevs]

cell phone 100
car insurance 168
rent 600
electric 75
cable/internet 75
car 250

$1268

 

[KeithTalent]

Hmm, off the top of my head, somewhere between $2,500 and $3,000 I think.

KT