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Well I budget separately for both groceries and gas so I wouldn't consider either of those items "spending money" as they are monthly necessities.

If you take those out, I allot about $100 for "leftover" money - usually this ends up going toward utilities if I budgeted too little for something (discrepancies in utility bills, unexpected expenses etc), but it will also cover fun stuff like going out to eat or something like that. But I generally allot $75/month to eating out. We don't usually have extra "fun" money though.

After all bills, gas, savings and groceries, we have about 75$ a week to spend on eating out, clothes, and other fun things. It's more in winter when the electric bill is lower.

It's hard to say "what's left" because my husband works hourly and his hours vary. We budget $120 weekly for groceries (WAS $100... stupid preggo eating), $60 for gas, $10 for his work meals (until he goes back to his other placement and is able to eat free), and $40 each for spending money. We use that $ for individually going out to eat (or together unless we plan it), clothing, alcohol, makeup, all other "extras." We usually have $ leftover after that which go into our "Bills" account. I keep a spreadsheet of the $ going in/out of the bills account, and we usually have extra. That goes towards things we both need to buy like stuff for baby, or if we want to go out to eat, or plane tickets, or anything we're saving up for like that, etc. I miss having a SET pay and knowing what our income each week was, but it is nice that he can get OT.

Not much.

I've never really added it up, to be honest. I used to keep a much stricter budget but I've been pretty lax about it for the last couple years. Savings get auto-deducted from my paycheck, money for the "big" bills goes directly into a separate account, and the rest is for groceries, gas, cell phone, fun stuff, whatever. I could definitely break it down more if I needed to, I just haven't!

Over the past few months we didn't allot ourselves any spending money. We were pretty much on lock down, but it really worked!

We each get $150 bi-weekly to spend on whatever we want like clothes for me, random fishing gear for him, etc! Separate budgets for eating out, but if we go out without each other (like I do on Fridays with work people) that comes out of our personal account!

We just started doing it - we used to have no budget and just spent whatever we wanted, which lead to me buying small things often, and DH spending a bunch on one thing rarely.

We save like crazy, so that's totally separate than this. If we save our fun money, its so we can have more fun another time, lol.

We each get $250 "fun" money a month to do as we please without any pressure from the other person. What we don't spend we put away for future vacation spending money.

We also just recently started budgeting because we were noticing our savings was pretty stagnant. Hopefully this way we can beef up our savings while being conscientious about what we are spending each month, without making each other feel guilty.

Our leftover money goes to gas about $60/week, groceries about $150/week and fun money for the three of us. I get $40, DH gets $80 and LO gets $50!
@daniellemybelle: ohhhhh $400/ 2x a month. I was starting to wonder what magical skills you posses to get by on $400 a month!

@mediagirl: we got takeout once between he dates that Mr. Jacks was unemployed. We completely cut out any spending for the girls unless it was through a gift card or a credit. We bought one baby shower gift, but using a gift card. I went on a diet so no treats from vending machines. Any other expenses were things in our budget.

40% to savings, 30 bills, 30 fun!

24% of our take-home into savings (split between retirement, emergency, and regular savings).

48% of our take-home into fixed expenses (mortgage, cable/phone, student loans, insurance-- anything thats the same every month).

15% into variable expenses (necessities that aren't exact-- groceries, gas, utilities, pet costs).

13% into spending money (eating out, gifts, entertainment, hair cuts, shopping).

@T.H.O.U.: haha my husband is an accountant so he has a veryyyy specific budget we work off of. makes it easy to add up! also i'm sure those numbers will take a hit after we have the baby! i'm already sad-panda-ing about how much all the medical bills will cost us! (and don't even talk to me about daycare. i'm scurred lol)

@Mae: Yes daycare and medical costs hit us big time. I wanted to keep up with my monthly savings but the month to month expenses keep cutting it back.

I guess I could do it monthly, I use my salary to pay for my son's daycare, so after that, I am usually spending around $200 a week on stuff that's not in the budget (but really is, like clothes for me).