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What I understand about Nigerians is that they just need money to spend without planning.

I remember when I was doing full time blogging stuff, I guaranteed myself 8 hours of light everyday. I would buy 10 - 15 ltrs of fuel to use for the week. (I pass my neighbor - high fuel efficiency).
I plan for 4 hrs daytime (2 hrs late morning 10 am to 12 and another 2 hrs 3 to 5pm) and 4 night time (8pm to 12 midnight)
Now, my neighbor would be laughing "why I dey do economy for fuel " for him, just put the fuel and let the gen off by itself but he is the one that complain the loudest that he doesn't have fuel or he is spending too much on fuel.

With a good plan, you can survive happily with family at that but with wife in school, it's going to be challenging unless her family will still support her a bit.

edoman2016:
I think 35,000 naira can raise a family in Nigeria. If you doubt it, kindly ask security man, company drivers, factory workers etc in Lagos how much they are paid as monthly salary. Majority of them are paid less than 30,000 naira yet they have a wife and children at home. It's not how much you earn but how you utilize it.

Khutie:
•••Yhu've goh massive supportive family(friends inclusive)...not err'body gonna be dah lucky and most importantly, I believe that yhur wife to be is made of UNDERSTANDING ingredient rather than SLAYING ingredient. Bruh yhu re fvcking Economist, I hail o.

princeeze1:
I am forced to respond to this thread, I work in a private firm, got married 2 yes ago on a 120k per month sal. Company restructured and slashed sal to 65k for me, mind you, those considered expendable lost their jobs. My wife, a student I am training, currently have a 1,year old son. Believe me we are not hungry.

How do we cope: a careful breakdown.
FOOD... We buy what we can consume every month end on this basis.
Rice-2 painter=#3600
Beans-1 painter=#1800
Garri-2panter=#1600
Yams. =#2000
Egg crate=#800
Red oil, big eva can =#900
G oil, same size. =#800
Ingredients, maggi, pepper, salt, onions etc=#1000
Total=#12500. Gas #2000 actually #1800 for 5kg bringing total to #14500

My son now eats adult food along golden morn
Golden morn 2 big pack=#1500
Milk...123 peak for kids 2=#1800
Usual drugs for children, bonabebe, paracetamol, cold drugs etc =#1500
Total=#4800

Actual cooking
We cook once in a month and stock in d freezer, all we need do everyday is boil rice and make EBA. Or rather cook yam porridge or yam n egg.
To cook soup, egusi and ogbon, Egusi 12cups is #1200, my wife also buys ogbono 1500,, tomato fruit and canned and fresh pepper for stew #1500.
Meat to cook all 3=#6000, other things she may buy like vegetables n kpomo etc#1000, total =#11200

Other bills
CTL cable TV #3200
Light =#1000
Waste mgt=500
Fuel for gen, 1k per WK=4000
My recharge n data=3000
Wify recharge n data=2000, I call more lol
Her hair and cream, I don't know her she partitions it is #4000
Total=#17700

Grand total is #48200, So I simply give her 50k monthly to pay for everything at the end of every month. And yes unless you are blind, you can see we are well covered, mind you she and not me drew up our new spending pattern, what a good wife should be able to do.

I save a mandatory 15000k every month, which is #180k per annum, I live in a 2 bedroom flat of 150k, with finance falling down, I simply rented out d guest room for 70k, call me greedy, mind you my guest room has no access to my living room and master room, I only share kitchen, now I only have to pay 80k per annum.
.I still have change.

I make bold to say we live very comfortably. Am I making plans to up my finances again YES. I only made this break down in support of op, from his breakdown, he may not live to even my now manageable standard, but he can, because he has focus.

Lastly we have a good ride, but mostly used socially and for church, I don't fuel or maintain my car from salary, occasional once in a while free cash maybe from office runs does that, everyone who works must have that loose free office change from one or two racket.

Moral.....
LIFE IS ABOUT VISION, WHOEVER CANNOT MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF 35K WILL MAKE NOTHING OUT OF 200K, BECAUSE THE HIGHER YOU GO, THE BIGGER YOUR TASTE. I CUT DOWN MY TASTE, WE HAD A PAID HOUSE MAID AND A LAUNDRY GUY TOO, COMBINE SALARY OF 25K, MY WIFE DOES THAT NOW, WE USED TO PUT ON GEN EVERY NIGHT THERE IS NO LIGHT, NOW UNLESS, THERE IS CONSECUTIVE OUTAGE, DUE TO FOOD IN D FRIDGE, NO NEED AND YES WE DO HAVE NEPA LIGHT AT LEAST 10 HOURS EVERYDAY, I USED TO DRIVE TO GO AND BUY ORDINARY AKARA, NO MORE, I USED TO BE AN OMELORA, NO MORE NOW.

IF YOU LACK FOCUS, YOUR EARNING POWER WILL STILL BE MEANINGLESS.

Efewestern:
donpata , wouldn't want to say my age here, but am a very young man who knows how the real world operate.

Saw the thread yesterday, I just laugh and smile, even saw a guy saying rubbish about how 35k is too small, yes that amount might be small but a man and his wife can start a life with that, the lady won't sit idle doing nothing would she? the lady can start a trade, or find a job of 20k or better still you can make her learn some handwork like tailoring while thinking of other business to do.

With that you plan your life, give birth to only one Kid or no kid till you establish another business or have a stable source of income.

Most people or should I say ladies are just delusional, and to think a lady of 30yrs still thinks like a girl of 18 baffles me.

Peace bro.

vladimiros:
anybody praising this OP is just as foolish as the op

op is a madman, I fvcking mad man

30k salary and he wants to get married .

op let me make u feel bad.

I am 23 and last month I made over 800k, what do I do? agro trading..simple

I started with 50k. I currently have 3 employees..

and the 800k even small sef.

op u better fing money or else..

I have warned you

Marcelo290:
5 Things I deduce from your write up

1. You are intelligent and smart, intelligent people go far in life.

2.You refuse to be moved nor follow the crowd, you are my type of person and I admire you for that.

3. You refused to be moved by negativity, stay positive, I commend you for that, keep being optimistic.

4. You got your life well planed, an unexamined life actually is not worth living, kudos!

5. You have future goals and ambitions, that's a good one.

But also, if your fiance isn't an understanding person, you would have problems and everything you stated there won't work out.

I respect intelligent people, all the best Sire.

ikemesit4477:
why do you pity him?

moststylish:
the OP is just making list without telling us how he is going to get the money

walex2:



You don't read and jump to conclusion. Are you the one that will bring an hard time for him.

I have seen many married with 30k and they are living fine. Think about yourself and don't determine for others

GOFRONT:
Hmmm.....Irony of Life......Op @30 has 2 plots of land

@30 I cant even boast of a bag of cement

And on that other Thread som guyz want som other guyz to wait until they start Earning 700k monthly before they start talkin marriage......700k that is not even guaranteed and in d process they might end up waitin for 700k till another 25yrs......55yrs don waka be dat oo

princeeze1:
I am forced to respond to this thread, I work in a private firm, got married 2 yes ago on a 120k per month sal. Company restructured and slashed sal to 65k for me, mind you, those considered expendable lost their jobs. My wife, a student I am training, currently have a 1,year old son. Believe me we are not hungry.

How do we cope: a careful breakdown.
FOOD... We buy what we can consume every month end on this basis.
Rice-2 painter=#3600
Beans-1 painter=#1800
Garri-2panter=#1600
Yams. =#2000
Egg crate=#800
Red oil, big eva can =#900
G oil, same size. =#800
Ingredients, maggi, pepper, salt, onions etc=#1000
Total=#12500. Gas #2000 actually #1800 for 5kg bringing total to #14500

My son now eats adult food along golden morn
Golden morn 2 big pack=#1500
Milk...123 peak for kids 2=#1800
Usual drugs for children, bonabebe, paracetamol, cold drugs etc =#1500
Total=#4800

Actual cooking
We cook once in a month and stock in d freezer, all we need do everyday is boil rice and make EBA. Or rather cook yam porridge or yam n egg.
To cook soup, egusi and ogbon, Egusi 12cups is #1200, my wife also buys ogbono 1500,, tomato fruit and canned and fresh pepper for stew #1500.
Meat to cook all 3=#6000, other things she may buy like vegetables n kpomo etc#1000, total =#11200

Other bills
CTL cable TV #3200
Light =#1000
Waste mgt=500
Fuel for gen, 1k per WK=4000
My recharge n data=3000
Wify recharge n data=2000, I call more lol
Her hair and cream, I don't know her she partitions it is #4000
Total=#17700

Grand total is #48200, So I simply give her 50k monthly to pay for everything at the end of every month. And yes unless you are blind, you can see we are well covered, mind you she and not me drew up our new spending pattern, what a good wife should be able to do.

I save a mandatory 15000k every month, which is #180k per annum, I live in a 2 bedroom flat of 150k, with finance falling down, I simply rented out d guest room for 70k, call me greedy, mind you my guest room has no access to my living room and master room, I only share kitchen, now I only have to pay 80k per annum.
.I still have change.

I make bold to say we live very comfortably. Am I making plans to up my finances again YES. I only made this break down in support of op, from his breakdown, he may not live to even my now manageable standard, but he can, because he has focus.

Lastly we have a good ride, but mostly used socially and for church, I don't fuel or maintain my car from salary, occasional once in a while free cash maybe from office runs does that, everyone who works must have that loose free office change from one or two racket.

Moral.....
LIFE IS ABOUT VISION, WHOEVER CANNOT MAKE ANYTHING OUT OF 35K WILL MAKE NOTHING OUT OF 200K, BECAUSE THE HIGHER YOU GO, THE BIGGER YOUR TASTE. I CUT DOWN MY TASTE, WE HAD A PAID HOUSE MAID AND A LAUNDRY GUY TOO, COMBINE SALARY OF 25K, MY WIFE DOES THAT NOW, WE USED TO PUT ON GEN EVERY NIGHT THERE IS NO LIGHT, NOW UNLESS, THERE IS CONSECUTIVE OUTAGE, DUE TO FOOD IN D FRIDGE, NO NEED AND YES WE DO HAVE NEPA LIGHT AT LEAST 10 HOURS EVERYDAY, I USED TO DRIVE TO GO AND BUY ORDINARY AKARA, NO MORE, I USED TO BE AN OMELORA, NO MORE NOW.

IF YOU LACK FOCUS, YOUR EARNING POWER WILL STILL BE MEANINGLESS.

Aquariann:
From my time on Nairaland, I think the issue with most Nairalanders is that most of them are city dwelling. i.e they are mostly found in (or live in) Lagos, Ogun, Abuja, PH, Benin, Asaba, Owerri, Calabar etc.

The general cost of living in these places always affects their perspectives and sense of judgement about life in Nigeria generally.

For example, because N1000 can't cook a decent pot of soup in Lagos, Abj, or Ph, no one elsewhere in Nigeria should/can claim to have made a decent pot of soup with 1k.

So with this mindset above, a man earning say 100k a month in Lagos and is still struggling to make ends meet, rent, fees etc would never believe an okada rider in a small town like say Obudu, has built a decent 3 bedroom flat.

They'll ask you was it built with sticks? But just like the Op stated, they only made use of mud blocks and cement to hold the blocks together and for pillars as the case may be. By the time the house is plastered and painted, you'll never know it wasn't built with cement blocks.

Same way if you tell them one can buy a half bag of potatoes for less than 1k in a town/village in Benue, they'll argue just because they can't in the City.

My point is, people earning way less than the op are doing just fine.

All I can say is "Nairalanders, please travel and see".

falconey:




Public Moron_ Douglash92 your deadbrain is needed here. Unlike the op I haven't got time to really psychoanalyze the notion. It's no miracle son.
He got his BSC in the north that must have been a major factor (remember??). Anything is possible, you can actualise any goal with good plan. I am not surprised people have been doing it for years and will keep doing it no matter how harsh the economy. Again
break yourself from the misguided impressions, read and explore more.

PrecisionFx:



that does not have any connection with planning, it's just a baseless trashy story.

He might be earning 35k as salary, but salary is not same as income. From all that he listed, it's obvious 35k can't do all those shit. Even ordinary N200 morning/N200 night food (assuming they feed twice a day) is already 400 +400 = 800.
800 × 30 days = 24,000.

rent and electricity = 6000 + 3000 = 9000.

35k has already finished.

So who will pay for every other monthly expenses.



Trashy article.

PrecisionFx:





pls explain how he will fund 2 cheap meals a day, monthly transport n monthly house rent for 2 of them with 35k.

PrecisionFx:



that does not have any connection with planning, it's just a baseless trashy story.

He might be earning 35k as salary, but salary is not same as income. From all that he listed, it's obvious 35k can't do all those shit. Even ordinary N200 morning/N200 night food (assuming they feed twice a day) is already 400 +400 = 800.
800 × 30 days = 24,000.

rent and electricity = 6000 + 3000 = 9000.

35k has already finished.

So who will pay for every other monthly expenses.



Trashy article.

PrecisionFx:



Did he also use 35k per month to buy 2 plots of land?

U guys should stop being stupid in broad daylight.

blessingee:


Trashy analysis by you!

Cost of living is not the same nationwide!

Someone who earns 35k in a village is almost same with someone who earns 100k in the city. Get your facts.

donpata:


Let me help ur unbelieve. When I am low financially, I stay in my rented apartment close to my workplace. My work place is 30km from Kaduna town. Do u know how much I pay in that outskirt apartment? N500 per month. Lol. Others pay N400 sef but mine is standard room. I feel The room is larger than the one u live in now sef. I have the external bathroom to myself cos the landlord and his wife have everything insuite their flat. Need I go further? I dont think so

PrecisionFx:



Lmao, he lives in a village n works with kaduna state government, A village where 1 bedroom flat goes for average of 100k per year as he specified

Nne Dress abeg.

Even in a village, U can't survive on 35k monthly except I don't pay any rent, u don't pay for water, u don't buy pure water, u don't pay electricity bill n the village u live in plants heavily n u get all ur foods from there n oh I forgot, he would trek to office n his wife will trek to skol everyday....

blessingee:


You actually think he came to VGC to buy a land right?

rheether:
I pity you

PrecisionFx:



He's. not an economist, he's just playing wit una head. He didn't even explain the basics, just do it for him now.

explain to me how 35k can feed them. both with cheap meal, pay for monthly transport n pay house rent. Just this 3 things, forget other expenses.

blessingee:


Tell us which village you have stayed before and couldn't survive. I am interested in your story

donpata:


Let me help ur unbelieve. When I am low financially, I stay in my rented apartment close to my workplace. My work place is 30km from Kaduna town. Do u know how much I pay in that outskirt apartment? N500 per month. That's 6k per yr. Lol. Others pay N400 sef but mine is standard room. I feel The room is larger than the one u live in now sef. I have the external bathroom to myself cos the landlord and his wife have everything insuite their flat. Need I go further? I dont think so

PrecisionFx:



He never told u he lives in a village, he said he lives in a place where 1 bedroom flat averages 100k per month, does that sound like a village to u


Do u have a village? I don't think u have priced land in a village before oo

PrecisionFx:









pls explain how u will fund 2 cheap meals a day, monthly transport n monthly house rent for 2 of u with the 35k. let's leave other expenses for now.

Pls don't tell me u trek 30km every day ooo and that ur wife treks 39km every day too.

PrecisionFx:



Did he also use 35k per month to buy 2 plots of land?

U guys should stop being stupid in broad daylight.

9japrof:


Here art thou, am on a 12k salary and I don do savings Wella, infact people wey go gimme contributions plenty. They are even willing to gimme money wey I go use pay for ur bride price. You go gree marry me?

Lol

Nukualofa:
seriously i felt shallow exchanging words with him. He can't stand my sister i trained through school talk more of opening his mouth if he sees me. Anonymous personality of NL gives a lot of kids the leeway to talk down on people they might work under tomorrow