SocialJustice:
100k for feeding a month is good even with current situation. Your wife is mismanaging money.

Tell her to draw a list of how she spends money, you will quickly see where money is being wasted.

N50k can buy rice, garri, beans, oil, spaghetti, noodles, eggs to last a month. The other N50k goes to creating variety in how the bulk ingredients at home are prepared.

keepingmum:




25k a month is 100k a month

Headbanger:
25k a week

LushLady:
My family is five as well,things are very costly in the market but what I do is that I go to market once in 2weeks,and some of the things doesn't finish till next 2or 3 months so it reduces the cost when I'm going to market next time.
I buy everything I will need to cook till the next two weeks except fresh vegetable.
Please discuss your wife to know how you people can manage.
Like me I do buy
Hot chocolate half paint
Milk half paint
Spaghetti 1 pack of 20
Palm oil 5ltrs
Groundnut oil 5ltrs
Indomitable 1 carton
Yam
Potatoes
Beans
Rice
Maggie
Spices
Bread
Onions
Crayfish
All these buy I bulk and keep at home,and also cook 3 different types of soups and stews and stocked in the freezer.I also did pap too and stocked in the freezer.
Discuss with your wife and buy things in bulk this way you will not be going to market all the time.
All these I listed above 50k can buy them.

Ethanuella:
No, she's not mismanaging. Things are really expensive out there.

As a family of 4 (myself, husband and 2 kids), we have a budget of 130k per month. This includes foodstuffs in bulk, soup items, and petrol for the generator.

The good news is that because I buy in bulk, some food items lasts longer than a month, so I get to save some cost for the next month despite been given the money.

I do not use the savings for personal use, instead, I use it to cushion emergencies that may arise anytime.

Headbanger:


Thank you very much, apart from feeding which is 25k weekly,
We have other budgets, such as fueling which is 30k monthly for the car
genetor we have 15k set aside, and PHCN is 20k
we also have emergency 50k which if we do not use, we carry over to the following month.
Then for the laundry, we have extra 12k for that, because sometimes we engage dry cleaners.

Ethanuella:


Ha! That's a lot. I feel with what I'm seeing up here, you shouldn't be the one shouldering all of these expenses.

Your wife should be able to assist, her token will go a long way.

Headbanger:


Only me. that is why am worried o

Plus monthly allowance of 50K for Wify stuff

Headbanger:


Only me. that is why am worried o

Plus monthly allowance of 50K for Wify stuff

Headbanger:


Only me. that is why am worried o

Plus monthly allowance of 50K for Wify stuff

satandeterrible:
Not only is she mismanaging the money, she is also apparently jobless.

This is what happens when you marry a fool who has no job.

Headbanger:
I am worried about the cost of living in this country, almost everything is double except salary. I found myself giving out 25k weekly as upkeep, we are just family of five, consisting my 3 kids, wify and I.

I can barely save after paying other bills, and the crazy thing is that my wife want me to improve on the weekly allowance, please what is the average allowance that is considered okay for a family like mine.
Any idea pls.

Sijo01:


Try and encourage your wife to start up a business. In so doing, this 50k for her stuff can go into savings.

Secondary, cultivate the idea of buying food stuff in bulk(go with the list some users dropped above). Although the money will look big the day you did the shopping but believe me you'll be financially relaxed in the next couple of months.

The only thing your wife should buy regularly is just vegetables. Meat, fish and tomatoes can also be brought in bulk and stored in the freezer

Headbanger:


Only me. that is why am worried o

Plus monthly allowance of 50K for Wify stuff

satandeterrible:
Not only is she mismanaging the money, she is also apparently jobless.

This is what happens when you marry a fool who has no job.

Headbanger:


Only me. that is why am worried o

Plus monthly allowance of 50K for Wify stuff

coputa:
All those saying that woman must work to support the family,forgets that when you leave the care of your kids to a stranger(house help) and they become something else,do you know that all your struggles to take care of them becomes vain.If the man can afford it,the woman should be at the home front,taking care of the kids.I have seen top professionals and career women resigns from top paying job to take care of their children.they are not fools.The family is all you have.

armyofone:
With three kids how is she going to operate/manage the business ?

8am -3pm close shop right ? Oga should not get fixated on the profit from the biz to run the home then

Sijo01:



Drop the kids off at school before helding to the shop. Close the shop briefly or leave in the care of her shop rep if she has any to pick the kids from school and back to the shop.

The essence of the business is to support the man/home.

coputa:
All those saying that woman must work to support the family,forgets that when you leave the care of your kids to a stranger(house help) and they become something else,do you know that all your struggles to take care of them becomes vain.If the man can afford it,the woman should be at the home front,taking care of the kids.I have seen top professionals and career women resigns from top paying job to take care of their children.they are not fools.The family is all you have.

Headbanger:
I am worried about the cost of living in this country, almost everything is double except salary. I found myself giving out 25k weekly as upkeep, we are just family of five, consisting my 3 kids, wify and I.

I can barely save after paying other bills, and the crazy thing is that my wife want me to improve on the weekly allowance, please what is the average allowance that is considered okay for a family like mine.
Any idea pls.