How much is your "clothing" budget (2 adults)?

[tamarindtully]

A co-worker and I were talking about clothing budgets, and she and her husband set a monthly budget of $500.

What is your clothing budget monthly (for 2 adults)? Not beauty/makeup items, but just strictly clothing?

ETA: If you selected the over $300+ category, would you mind sharing how much?

[Balki.Bartokomous]

You're missing the <$100 option.

[Deleted]

We don't have one. We buy clothes when we need/want to without thinking about it.

[Deleted]

Per month? None of the above.

[jentervention]

Dec 29, 2012 14:55:36 GMT -5 Balki.Bartokomous said:

You're missing the <$100 option.

Yeah, we're in the $75-100/month range.

[Deleted]

Dec 29, 2012 14:56:37 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

We don't have one. We buy clothes when we need/want to without thinking about it.

+1

[chessie]

Dec 29, 2012 14:56:37 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

We don't have one. We buy clothes when we need/want to without thinking about it.

This is what we do, comes out of our ETC/whatever sorta account.

[stephm0188]

Dec 29, 2012 14:56:37 GMT -5 @ameliapond said:

We don't have one. We buy clothes when we need/want to without thinking about it.

This, exactly. We both go months at a time without buying anything.
And then there was yesterday where I dropped $200 on a coat.

[belovedbride07]

We take it out of our individual "Misc" budgets (AKA fun money), which are set at $100/mo each. So...well under that.

[Kore]

We don't have one, either. It'll come out of fun money when we start budgeting next month. Def less than $100/mo.

[CloudBee]

I just purchase when I want or need something. Some months I don't spend much, others I spend a ton.

[sa]

I try to keep it $500 or less.

Some months I stay below this, some months I go a little over. If I go over though, I try to adjust my spending the following month(s).

Clothes, shoes, etc is my big indulgence.

[mollybrown]

We have an annual budget. As others have mentioned, sometimes we buy nothing, and other times DH needs a $500 suit.

[RandZB]

Per month? Haha. We don't have one. I go months without buying clothing for myself. DH buys himself a new pair of dress shoes when his wear out. The boys get new clothes fairly regularly, but we don't really care about buying for ourselves much. I am going to try to put a bit more effort into it this year though.

[littlemermaid]

Dec 29, 2012 15:11:43 GMT -5 CloudBee said:

I just purchase when I want or need something. Some months I don't spend much, others I spend a ton.

This is me too.

[Deleted]

My spending is very uneven, because it depends on the month. Some months I only buy a few things, but at the beginning of spring and fall I tend to buy a lot.

I don't know what the total or average is though, nor do I want to know Definitely more than $300 a month for me. (But definitely less than that for my husband). Clothes, shoes, and bags are a big indulgence for me.

[Deleted]

spending is so uneven in this category but we are good at tightening up other line items to keep our budget in check.

for two people:
avg over past 6 months - $360/mo
avg over past 3 months - $433/mo (probably due to my frye boots)

[jane6672]

Dec 29, 2012 14:55:36 GMT -5 Balki.Bartokomous said:

You're missing the <$100 option.

Yeah

[Deleted]

I think we usually spend $3-4k ish a year. Probably $500ish is DH and the rest me

[genet313]

I hate to admit it, but my DH and I average more than $300 a month on clothes. He doesn't buy as frequently as me, but when he does, it's expensive, because he's buying nice shoes, suits, ties (nice meaning designer).

Me, I love clothes, and if I could justify it, I would spend more no doubt. But I try to exercise restraint as much as I can.

We are trying to cut back this year though, so we'll see.

[Deleted]

Um none of the above. H and I each get 100 a month of fun money. Clothing is included, as are things like golfing or books or music or eating lunch out or any purchases not in the budget.

[Deleted]

Your options more closely reflect our annual budget.

[awick14]

Dec 29, 2012 19:03:07 GMT -5 @chronoptomist said:

Your options more closely reflect our annual budget.

This!!

(I can't actually see the poll but if there isn't an <$100 option then :/)

I spent $40 on a dress and leggings today and that's more then I spent in the last 6 months on clothing. (I only spent that because I got a $50 gift card to that store.)

[pugz]

uggh I miss my clothing budget.

[Norticprincess]

Really varies some months zero, others $1k+. I usually buy twice a year big shop and supplement a piece here or there if something comes up or wears out. I hate store shopping for clothing because nothing fits, if I find stuff online that fits, I'll get it in different colors/styles. When I was working I was allowed to wear nice jeans to work most of the week. If we had people coming through or meetings it was a bit more dressy, suits were rare-TV land, main building meetings, or higher ups.

DH the same thing, if we are replacing dress shirts it goes quick if he just needs some summer stuff not much. DH wears button down shirts, varies between jeans and dress pants on what he needs to do at work that day. Has a few days he has to toss on a suit. It usually comes out of the misc extra money that would get tossed in savings at the end of the month.

[Deleted]

We each get $200 a month for personal spending, clothing generally comes out of that.

Honestly, we don't do a good job of sticking to budget, but that's our "budget". We're making a change ASAP and I have a feeling our clothing budget will be $0 for a while - we have plenty to last us a while and need to cut back on spending in general!

[carfar]

Supposed to be 100, umm I really don't stick with it and guess its more like 3-400 ish. If you averaged it out.

[SusanBAnthony]

Normally under 100 a month, including shoes. But DH lost about 50 lbs and needed a who
E new wardrobe, so it was not a cheap fall.

[ondaflipside]

Our budget is about $150 combined. DH likely spent about $500. I personally spent about $2K for this year, and that does not include GC purchases. The overage gets taken out of my fun money.

It's definitely a lot this year, (v. $1700 last year), mainly because of my interview wardrobe. And basically supplementing my wardrobe for the job that I want and hope to get.

I doubt it will be a lot less in 2013. But I'll try to curb it, considering I got some of the basics out of the way this year.

[kershnic]

Yeah, I'm with the people who said this looks more like an annual budget... our budget has $500 each for the year. If needed something like a coat might come from a separate line, and maybe $100 to $200 might come as gifts.