fibbi

gas: $300 per car per month is A LOT! My office and home is 15km each way and I fill up surpreme and it's $200 most per month. If you fill up regular it costs less. I think $150-$200 a month is better guess.

to parents: $1000/month each side?? I think it's really A LOT...

food: for a couple...I try to keep $50/week budget for grocery. So that's $200/month + dine out $100/week which total food expense $600/month. But if you need to save, don't even eat out! or just eat out twice a month!

other expense sounds reasonable (except housing part I'm not too sure) but need to budget some $ for property tax, maintainance fee (house or apartment) as well.

fibbi

原帖由 Catpiano 於 2008-5-24 21:58 發表
~ $300 a month for gas is minium for average driver la      say doing  ~2,000 -2,500km a month ..  average 12L/100km to drive around town  .. so need 250L-300L gas a month and $1.4 / L  .. will be  ...

Sorry a bit OT but 2000-2500km a month to me is A LOT! Van is a relatively "small" place wor. From downtown Van to southern part of Richond is around 25k, so even 50k per day, 30 days x 50k = 1500km ...and on weekend we may not even drive to "downtown" that far right... still below $200 gas...