Re: carnegie....who???
This is a very interesting exercise!
Outside of my grocery bill (which includes toileteries, cleaning stuff, and a couple of cans or bottle of wine), my weekly spend is around 40. I eat my lunches in except for maybe once a week.
I don't go out on big nights out (with taxis, niteclub entrance) so usually my nights out (about once a fortnight) work out cheap enough. Four drinks can still be done for 20 quid - thankfully no FatFrog drinkers among my friends!
Night out:                         10 p.w.
Odd Cup of coffee/tea        5 p.w.
Lunch/Breakfast out        10 p.w.
The other 15 euro goes on incidentals like a bottle of coke here or a CDWOW CD there, new plant for the garden, bit of paint, that kinda thing. If I buy clothes (and I'm not a fashion junkie) then I don't go out or eat out.
I give myself this 40 euro each week and I'm "not allowed" to take more money out unless I've had a big think about how I can juggle things around again. This sounds very frugal but then I remembered all my annualised stuff:
I tend to bulk-buy my books and that normally works out around 500 a year, or 10 euro a week over the course of a year. Thankfully my CD spending has settled since last year when CD Wow was nearly the death of me. My gym/pool membership is annual but would work out at about 12 euro a week but I really knock the value out of that. I'm also studying (for pleasure, not work) and that costs me around 25 euro a week.
So all in all, I probably spend about 90 euro per week amusing myself. Great life really
Rebecca