The Budget Plan

above is the example of a budget plan, and the most important part is the Living Expenses.

Food:

-- Home Cooking

For home cooking, if you have 6person in group, approximately £2 person, you can have a quite satisfied and delicious meal like 

this!

If you are cooking alone, you might need lesser than £2 for a meal. For example pasta, instant noodle and etc.

Let's say, £2 for 3meals a day = £6

-- Eating out

Sometimes, eating out is a kind of relax. For a nice Chinese Cuisine or Western Cuisine, prepare around £6 for a meal, and you can get a very very delicious meal like

this!

so, let's prepare one week once fine eating out, £6 per meal.

Assumptions:

4 weeks in a month : 

budget eating 6days a week -- 6 x (3x£2) x 4 = £144

fine dine eating once a week -- 4 x £6 = £24

TOTAL --  £168 per month 

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Shopping :

-- Clothes 

For sure, you will SHOP for clothes!

For shopping, please prepare yourself on how much you want to spend on it per month.

Because this is totally based on personal shopping behavior, some people spend around £20 per month, some people might spend up to £100 pound per month.

So, consider your own ability on the expenses and its advisable that you make a budget and planning on it to avoid over spending =]

-- Groceries/ Toiletries

special advice here : you do not have to bring over toiletries like shampoos, body shower cream and etc, because it is much more cheaper in UK than Malaysia. For example: Swartzkoff Shampoo can get with only £1~ which is only RM5. So save up your luggage weight allowances. 

Let's spare around £10 per month for groceries and toiletries.

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Tours:

--Weekend Day Trip

• York £10+
• MU Stadium & Manchester City Centre £15+
• Oxford £10+
• Whitby £10+
• Liverpool & Chesire Oak Designer Outlet £10+
• Blackpool £10+
• Cambridge £10+
• Nottingham £10+

TOTAL : £80+

--Overnight Trip (Tong Hang Tour Agent)

• Scotland £150- £250 depends on days and nights
• Landsend £100-£130 

-- Europe Trip after semester end around £800

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The above are the assumption on living, shopping and travel expenses. Of course, different people will have different spending behavior. So, please estimate based on your own behavior and ability =]