How I Spend my Money: A 55-year-old office administrator from Galway with four children

TheJournal.ie reader WELCOME TO HOW I Spend My Money, a series on TheJournal.ie running weekly and looking at what people in Ireland really do with their cash.

Last week, we heard from a 37-year-old junior civil servant who signed on to social welfare just before Covid-19 hit as his contract had ended. This week, we hear from a 55-year-old office administrator with four children, living in Galway. She details her experience and charts her spending in the week before Taoiseach Leo Varadkar announced a partial shutdown for Ireland on 12 March.We live in a village in the west of Ireland about half an hour’s drive from Galway City. I have four children.

10:30 am I get a call from my son at school to say he isn’t feeling well and wants to go home. I tell him it’s okay to go home. 8 pm We sit down and eat dinner together. After that we all have a quiet night; the Irish orals are this week, so everyone goes to bed earlyish. The kids are in their bedrooms talking to friends online. I watch an hour of Netflix, read for a bit, surf on my phone for a while and message back and forth with a friend and my older daughters. I switch off the light at 11:30 pm.Tuesday 3rd March 8 am My son is still unwell so I let him stay in bed.

7 pm My good friend calls in while I’m cooking so we have tea and sugar cookies and catch up for an hour. 6:30 pm I work late and after work, it’s straight home and dinner; just tuna melts and frozen chips tonight as there are a few friends coming around at 8 pm for the sewing club and I need to get ready. I’ve got plenty of sugar cookies and tea which is the main thing that’s required.

6:15 pm I’m not planning to spend any more money today but at 6:15 as I’m leaving work. I was invited to go for a drink and it’s turned into that kind of week, so I go. I spend €10.50 when it’s my round. There’s only a few euro left in my wallet now but I feel better walking home after a good day at work and two bottles of beer in my local. I had half-planned to go to an exhibit that’s opening in the Hall tonight, but it seems like not a good time for a group social event so I just go home.

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