Big Rob from CelebHeights with a little detour
away from the topic of Height and onto
monthly expenses
How much do I spend in a month? On What?
and just how much does it cost to run CelebHeights.com
Now we live in Scotland
just outside Glasgow
so the cost of living isn't quite as comparable
as somewhere like London
I work full-time on the site
Jenny, she's a crafter. Her income?
is part-time
so we're essentially living on 1 single wage
In this video, I'm gonna breakdown
our regular monthly outgoings
We all need utilities like Gas and Electricity
and Jenny and myself, we both work from home
I have my PC on from 6am to 6pm
or 10pm or even midnight
Jenny works in the craft room upstairs
downstairs in the living room. In the kichen on the PC
has equipment running. Watches the TV. She even blow dries her hair
and that's why it costs us Forty Seven pound a month in electricity
But what about gas?
Well the central heating's on from October to March
and I even let Jenny have a daily bath
we pay Thirty Two pounds a month on average
we also have insurance for the boiler
the radiators, pipes and drains
that's Thirty Five pounds a month
compared to Home Insurance
that's only Nine pounds a month
Another essential outgoing is Council Tax
We cannae avoid it
this includes Water and Sewage costs
the bigger your home, the more you'll pay
and we live in a band D home
That's a Hundred and Thirty Seven quid a month on Cooncil Tax
Everyone needs a place to stay, so unless your living with your parents or in the basement
you're bound to be paying rent or mortgage
now by age 40, I'd absolutely kicked that mortgage to the kerb
cleared it to Zero
Everyone's got a mobile phone
Well except for Jenny
She's gone Ten whole years without one
When she leaves the house
I cannae get hold of her!
I have an IPhone SE
It's only 4 years old and see this video? It's filmed on it
Not too bad eh?
My mobile costs 9 pound a month
So what about TV and Internet?
Well I'm no Virgin, but we do use them for TV, landline and broadband
The cost? Sixty pounds a month.
What about Jeff Bezos retirement fund?
We give him Six pound Fifty a month for Amazon Prime
And what about the TV licence? Hold on
I thought I heard a Detector Van there!
We pay them Thirteen pounds a month
for the BBC TV licence
which funds, well-known celebrities extravagant lifestyles
Everyone needs to eat and we're no different
But I just worked out
We spend Fifty Quid a week. Two Hundred Pounds a month on food
No Booze. No cigarettes. We don't do takeaways
we don't eat out. But to be fair
we do drink a lot of Irn-Bru
As you may or may not know, I run CelebHeights.com
Best website ever!
The age of the site is now 16 years
The same as Big Iona
But the cost of running it
has actually fallen
the main expense is web hosting
that costs me about forty pounds
next big cost is geolocation software
that costs almost fifteen pounds
and then we have subscriptions to newspaper archives
and pro site IMDB
that costs nearly Twenty Pounds
in total, almost Seventy Four pounds a month
If you're self-employed like myself
Then you're bound to put aside money to pay for taxes and national insurance
Last year, I paid Twenty Two pounds a month
in Insurance contributions and my Tax Bill?
But don't be too shocked by that figure
It simply means my income fell and my expenses increased
Trust Me
Ten years ago I was paying Ten times as much tax
as Donald Trump
So that's a list of my regular monthly outgoings
Of course it doesn't include stuff like household repairs
clothing or even sneakers
but in total
Six hundred and Forty Six pounds
yeah, we could shave a few pounds off here and there
but I'm absolutely delighted with that figure
because now it means I can increase my budget
for buying more sneakers
Hold on
You know when you do your monthly budgets sometimes you forget that one expense
Now I don't drive a car, but I do have a photo licence for CelebHeights.com
which costs me nearly Forty Two pounds a month
so the revised monthly outgoings
is Six Hundred and Eighty Seven pounds
But remember
This year is quite unique
We've not done any conventions
So One hundred and Sixteen pounds on CelebHeights isn't normal
for instance in 2019
My monthly expenses
were Five Hundred and Two pounds