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Wayyyy too much. Amazon prime = my kryptonite
Plus lots of meals out etc. I'm embarrassed w our yearly total on Amex from 2015

None! Everything I buy is *necessary*!!! LOL.
Kidding.... if we were to really go bare bones "needs", I could probably cut out about $250-300.

If I had to cut back to the bare bones I could cut out $350 a month. This would eliminate cable/Netflix/eating out/unnecessary shopping/ect. It would suck, I'm trying to cut back about 100 in the unnecessary spending by having us eat out less and staying away from Target

So my "extra" spending often happens while I'm already at the grocery store getting things we need and I'll pick up one or two things (generally food items) extra for the week so it's hard to quantify what I spend exactly but I'd say it's around 30 to 40 a month. I never go out for coffee or out to eat. I always keep those things strictly at home and it's a huge deal for me to buy clothes when I need them. I rarely buy them when I want them. DH on the other hand cannot stop going out to eat and buying random crap food at gas stations. He averages 80 to 100 dollars a month. I keep begging him to stop spending so much extra but he either won't stop or he just can't control himself. It's not helping us though. Its a huge point of contention for us.

@Anagram: seriously. I feel like our grocery bill is insane. I SAH so I do my best to chop everything myself but I'm sure I'm still coming home with unnecessary things every week. It's so hard. Which is why it makes me so crazy when DH goes out to eat. I just spent a million dollars on groceries there is no need for that nonsense! If I were in your shoes I'd likely do what you do. I've started meal prepping but chopping veggies still sucks on prep day and if I WOH I definitely would want to spend precious weekend time on chopping veggies.

@Anagram: Same here on the short cuts at the grocery store!

I've cut way back. I used to spend a lot on clothes for myself, there was a period of time where i was spending something like $200 per week on new clothes. I didn't need any of these things, but I got caught up in the "price is too good not to" thing. So, he set up alerts on our credit cards. If we spend over a certain amount, we recieve an email. It's annoying sometimes, but it really kept me accountable.

We are freaky frugal because we have to be. Unfortunately we keep having major expensive needs (car repairs, unemployment, lawyers fees the size of a downpayment on a house). We constantly have needs that I have to just barely put off. Maybe everyone feels that way. So I only buy needs. At the same time, maybe I define needs more grandly- more loosely- I have some friends who have lots of investments and live even more frugally than we do and they are amazing. Then they travel a lot. I guess it depends on how you define it!

Right now, too much. A lot of it is for stuff for our new house, which we moved into a few months ago. But we also love eating out and getting take out is so easy.

I keep saying I'm going to start YNAB, hoping to do that in the next month.

Very little, same as you. Maybe $50.

We operate on a very tight budget and send everything we can to our financial goals (used to be debt payoff, then an emergency fund, and about to finish that and start investing heavily)

We used to just pay our bills and blow the rest, so those numbers would be way higher.

Too much. I should be more worried about it but it's not hurting the bottom line and we have a new house that needs a ton of stuff so most of my spending is house related. Not totally frivolous but not necessary either.

Hardly anything. We are both pretty frugal by nature and now also by necessity. We almost never go out to eat and very rarely buy coffee - usually only if we are traveling. If I go to Starbucks it's only because I have a gift card. We tend not to buy clothes unless we really need them, or unless we have gift cards or have been gifted money.

To answer the question - maybe on average $20 a month? That includes things like buying a chocolate bar while grocery shopping and the 1x or so a month DH doesn't have time to pack a lunch and grabs Subway or something.

I honestly wish we had more disposable income so we could be more comfortable grabbing things we don't "need" once in a while without agonizing over it.

According to DH, way to too much. But I like to buy things for DD and as an uncomfortable pregnant lady I need to treat myself to things like starbucks, lunches out and trips to the makeup counter. Sounds silly when I type it out but it temporarily makes me feel better.

I will naturally have to cut back in a couple months when my mat leave starts and I'm down to 80% of my income for the following 12 months...

Not a number I want to write down. before eating out, probably $150-200/mo; but that skyrockets with eating out which we are guilty of 3-4x a week. We are kind of freaking out about paying for 2 in daycare in the fall bc we are going to have to make some big lifestyle changes, so we are practicing that starting this month

Almost 100% of our extra, unnecessary spending is on eating out on the weekends. I struggle so much to meal plan. prep for the week, that I've just decided that I'm OK with spending money to eat out on weekends.

A lot. We spend a lot on eating out. I don't love to cook and would go insane if I had to do it every night. DH and I both cook about equally but on the weekends especially we love getting out of the house for meals. And I get Starbucks daily so yeah that adds up!