Do you spend more on food or on other household goods?
By mercuryman3a
@mercuryman3a (2477)
India
February 15, 2009 9:58pm CST
I find that the monthly expenditure of food is rather negligible. Only 10% on my salary is spent on food, just about as much as I spend on the tele, internet and mobile bills. Other expenses take a toll each month. Clothing also takes up about 10% of my salary. Children's education does take up a lot, nearly 30-40%.
What is your experience? do you spend a lot of money on food?
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5 responses
@beachstarz (1092)
• United States
16 Feb 09
Most of our money goes on food, and with 3 big dogs alot of money goes toward dog food. I try to cut back and buy cheaper brands of foods ,but the food bill is stil high . I can really do some damage to our bank account just by going into Sam's Club. Living in Mexico we go to Sam's often, because its hard to find alot of the foods we are used to here
@HansonFan (1653)
• United States
16 Feb 09
I live with my grandparents and my mother who just got released from prison. We used to spend a reasonable amount of money on food, but now that seems to be our main thing to buy! I don't know if its because the prices went up or because my mother eats nearly constantly. Its probably a combination of both, but I would say we spend a lot more than 10% of our salaries on food. 
@ptrikha_2 (49775)
• India
16 Feb 09
Hi,
I normally spend close to 15 to 20 % on my Food expenses.
Other major expenses are Mobile Bill as well as clothing and transport .
@tracie1758 (507)
• United States
16 Feb 09
i think a lot of our money gets spent on food. Another large portion of it goes to diapers and other baby needs. But yes the most i think goes to food. Nothing else is extremely mandatory in our house.
@strawberrychocodahi (4817)
• Philippines
16 Feb 09
We do spend more on food other than household goods. I might say that 40% goes to food, paying our bills is 30%, 20% on savings, 10% on our tithes to God.
We don't usually buy clothes every month, maybe two or after three months we would buy clothes, we are not that fashionable, were not concern on what to wear that's why we don't consume on that matter.
About the food, yes, we do our grocery every weekends for food supply. We pay bills like electricity, house rent, internet connection. And the very fruit of our labor goes to God for tithes of 10% of our income. So the remaining 20%, that will be for our future's saving.
