Rent: 1300 for a 2-bedroom apartment in a 3-floor walk-up.

Utilities: 200 per month including phone, gas, electricity, water.

Transportation: 480 per month (two people, each paying $2 for a bus and then $2 for a train, each way of a commute, five days a week).

Food: 800 per month -- kosher food costs a LOT.

Entertainment: 100 per month.

Home maintenance: 100 per month.

TOTAL: $2880 (US dollars) per month in NORMAL expenses.

Rent $850 p/M for 2 bedroom apt.

Utilities $400 p/M

Food $250 p/M

Healthcare - N/A

Recreation - $100 p/M

Eggs - $2.49 p/doz

Per month expenses:

rent 525
gas 96
electric 60
cell phone 65
cable tv & internet 130
water 15
food for 2 people 400
2 movie tickets 22

mortgage: 1500 monthly for 2 bedroom suburban town home

homeowner's fees: 170 monthly, which includes water, landscaping

real estate taxes: 3000 yearly

utilities: 150 average monthly gas, 100 average monthly electric

cell phone: 75 monthly

satellite: 75 monthly

food: 400

healthcare: 200

recreation: 200-400, depending on what I do

Mortgage $1,800 for 6-room home

Food- $500.00 for two people

Eggs- $1.69 dozen

Phone $70.00 per month

Gas- $60.00 per month

Electric - 50.00 per month

Water - $90.00 three months

Rent - 450/month for a room in a large two story house 3 miles from downtown with garden, large, flat roof, and basement

Utilities - 50/month for my 1/5th of gas, electric, internet, and water

Food - 30-50/month for beans, rice, eggs, cheese, and milk; supplemented by garden, grape vine, plum/cherry trees

Transportation - 75 cents every six months to reinflate bike tires

Entertainment - 0/month for unlimited movies in the park, outdoor yoga, outdoor concerts, museums, full moon jams, lakefront bike rides, and conversations with tourists from all over the world.

This is the budget of both my fiance and myself. We pay $900 rent in a 1 bedroom, all uitilities are included except electricity which comes to a max of $150, our food costs are usually $400 per month. health care costs are around $300 with insurance and i have included the costs for our two small dogs in here. We spend very little on recreation, i would say $100 a month.