Debate with partner.

You’re not wrong x

No sounds like you're living comfortable and he's being greedy or wanting more when it's unnecessary. If he feels this way, then he can budget for the family or get another/better job to make this extra money he's complaining about

I would say you're living comfortably, I'm having to work extra just to afford shopping. My partner is greedy though and I'll tell him about how we don't have money and then he's asking me if we can get coke 🤦‍♀️ like... we have water, it's healthier, just have that 😫

I'd love that. My pay pays all bills and food and that's it. No spare at all until the next pay day or vinted sale.

i’d say that’s comfortable living, as long as all our bills are paid and she has everything she needs like food and clothes and such then i’d say anything else is spare money which i’d count as being comfortable money, if that makes sense? normally after all bills are paid i’m left with about 300/400 pounds and he’s also left with around that much too and i think we live comfortably x

If you have money to pay for everything you need with extras left over that’s comfortable in my opinion

I WISH I was living that comfortably 😢 *cries in US citizen* we got paid today, put money back for bills, got groceries and only have $80 left. Still have to get gas in the car.

you’re definitely living comfortably !!! i’d love to have £300 to spare each month after everything’s been paid off ! and a housing association house is the best you can get without owning a house believe me ! they’re more expensive to rent each month than a council property. you don’t have to sit on some year long waiting list to get a property like with council properties. and atleast you’re not stuck in a parent and baby unit waiting for one of your homebid biddings to be successful for a council flat ! you are living VERY comfortably, your partner is just greedy and acting like how his life is being lived isn’t good enough for him ! in that situation i’d be telling him that if it ain’t good enough then he needs to do something about it to make it better, and if he can’t or won’t do that, then to shut the fuck up and deal with it ! it literally could be WAY worse😂🤦🏻‍♀️

In my opinion, living comfortably is living within your means, having all necessities readily available , being able to treat yourselves once in a while and having some left over to spare for savings. You are absolutely not wrong 💞

the UK works very differently from the US. We don’t need to save for our kids college funds. University is available for all regardless of parent’s income or means. We are all entitled to student loans, which are also capped and only paid back when the person is earning over a certain amount after they graduate.

We also have private pensions with our employers where they pay into it as well as deductions from wages, as well as government funded pensions for retirement so saving for retirement also isn’t necessary - saving for it is a nice luxury but not a necessity.

Having £300 after all bills and necessities are paid is plenty in the UK.

I was merely pointing out the difference in systems between the UK and US with University and pensions.

I didn’t say that government funded/employer contribution pensions were enough to live comfortably on. Just that they were something we have in the UK. It isn’t a necessity to save for retirement if you cannot afford to as there are things in place to support you.
Clearly whether it is a necessity is a matter of opinion, just as all matters regarding government funded benefits are 🤷🏻‍♀️ You have yours and I have mine.

Yes, but I didn’t mention maintenance grants/fees. I was merely talking about tuition - I should have specified, sorry. But even with maintenance, it is very much dependent on age and circumstance so differs per person. But it is available to most (currently at uni so have recently had to reapply for funding) x