£5 per day to live on Poll

[j1979]

Hi all,

Was wondering who thinks its possible to live in the UK on just £5 per day?

The £5 has to cover Food, accomodation, bills and clothes.

This Can be any part of the UK. And im talking about 1 lone person (living alone or with flat mates), not a family.

(the title refers to the fact that this is a poll, it was not a racist comment)

[KiMi-Tech]

short of squating and eating a lot of cold beans on bread I doubt it. Even the cheapest places to rent for students are at least £30 a week. Leaving £5 a week for food, clothes and bills.

What inspired the question?

[j1979]

What inspired the question?

boredom

[KiMi-Tech]

lol ok.

It might well be possible for the well informed but not something I can imagine being feasible. This coming from a student.. that would be a life even I couldn't tolerate

[SiM]

Sure its possible. Living on the streets. Eating 10p tesco value bread only. But its not sustainable. You would die.

[Aez]

What would you spend the other £4.90 on sim?

[Clunk]

What would you spend the other £4.90 on sim?

A deathbed from poundstretcher.

[Blitzen]

Bet Ray Mears could........

He could live on 20p a day............and still have a luxury 7 bedroom penthouse, as long as there were some leaves knocking around to make a 7 course meal from

[j1979]

What would you spend the other £4.90 on sim?

A deathbed from poundstretcher.

lmao

[BUFF]

The £5 has to cover Food, accomodation, bills and clothes.

without accepting benefits/charity/handouts or raiding skips I very much doubt it.

[spiral out]

If you take out the accommodation then it's possible.

[pauldarkside]

without accepting benefits/charity/handouts or raiding skips I very much doubt it.

ideally they'd be mirrored

[j1979]

I find it hard to belive that 6 people think its impossible, There Building a Supercollider thats gonna make mini black holes (maybe) but its impossible to live in the UK on a fiver a day.

Hmmm, maybe i should have added Improbable (if thats a word) as well impossible.

[Mblaster]

I bet you could survive on that, but you'd pretty much have to live on the streets. That means no accommodation bills, no gas, electricity, so leaving all of the £5 a day for your food, which should get you at least 2 good meals (bearing in mind you have no-where to cook your own stuff).

[Ferral]

Thing is with cost of living (going up regularly) life can be difficult to juggle bills etc.

Between me and my wife we bring in approximately £1700 on a good month after tax and insurance etc. By the time the rent, council tax, water, gas, electric, phone and broadband, sky, TV License, Car with tax and insurance and everything else has to be paid there isn't a great deal left once we have purchased food for the month let alone travel for me (Bus for the month costs £60 round my way) and fuel for said car.

Most cases we don't eat at work regardless of how long the shift is and do with 1 meal per day (decent sized meal) which we have on an evening.

Going on what I have put there I think £5 per day now would be nowhere near enough to get by, even if the council paid your rent and council tax with the cost of food, gas and electric alone you would barely be able to survive.

Its about time that the minimum wage covered the cost of inflation as well as giving a little extra in your pocket each month I personally feel. I work excessive hours and so does my wife and we have just enough to make ends meet, we have no time for each other as we are both at work virtually all of the time.

We need some major reforms here, we are taxed on literally everything. Road Tax, Council Tax, Tax on certain types of food and not forgetting the Income Tax. Thinking about that, after income tax and council tax alone between me and my wife we pay around £450 per month (roughly, not exact) in just taxes alone.

So I would have to say no to the £5 per day!

[malfunction]

I can't see how you could survive on it - nor that you'd need to try - as far as I'm aware you'd get more on benefits? I'd say if you take accomodation out of the equation it's possible but still not easy.