Money

[Junglist1981]

How much did you spend this year??

We somehow spent £550 

That's between 2 "adults", a toddler whose diet consisted mostly of fruit, pasta and milk, and a 9 year old who was only there for 2 days.

In previous years without the kids we've always kept it under £300, can't work out how the kids have cost us an extra £250! If anything we were buying less drinks.

Did I spend £200 at that awesome gateaux place maybe? Who knows. Was food more expensive perhaps? Saw a few places advertising meals for a tenner each.

Oh well, you only live once and can't take it with you etc etc 

[Bonaneas]

Spent less than ever by some miracle. Though hardly eating for the last 4 days and taking enough food and drink for the first 4 days helped keep spends down.

[LynseyDiva]

I spent a lot less than I budgeted for, I budgeted £300 for me from Wednesday-Monday, but only spent around £200. Took my own alcohol and only had lunch and dinner each day. Not bad at all! 

[Aragorn]

definitely spent less, around £200 i reckon but took alot of beer. 

[Jugtanion]

£250 between the wife and me and came back with about £20, that was after splashing £30 on an air bed on Thurs eve because the one we took malfunctioned.

All in all a standard year.

[Rubber Soldier]

Me and my girlfriend managed to spend £200 each, despite bringing booze with us and hardly eating. 

[Junglist1981]

Just now, Jugtanion said:

£250 between the wife and me and came back with about £20, that was after splashing £30 on an air bed on Thurs eve because the one we took malfunctioned.

All in all a standard year.

See that sounds exactly like our standard year. I can't for the life of me work out how we spent so much.

Might of bought a couple of rounds but nothing excessive. 

Had to buy a replacement hat and sunnies, maybe £15 in total.

Apart from that it was just food and beer.

[Larraht]

Took £250 and came back with £30. Did buy a fair few drinks and some presents for my daughter though. I think £50 a day does me pretty well to be honest.

[Zoo Music Girl]

I spent about  £220 and I'd expected it to almost be £300. So quite happy with that. Usually have three meals a day and four or five pints daily, plus coffee and cokes to have with the rum we bring. Loads of rum left too.

[Mollyanne&Mike]

We spent less this year, about £200 between two of us - pretty much spent on food (lunch and a snack each), healing fields massage and replaced leather strap on bracelet for him, new hat anfd Glasto vest top for me, and a celebratory last night Brothers pint on Sunday at midnight before bed. We took our own beer and cider, and aren't super heavy drinkers.

[Junglist1981]

If I've spent the most out of everyone on this forum I'm going to be fully gutted lol

[The Red Telephone]

£196

[rpfranks]

Took £200, put £20 towards parking/petrol and came home with £45 so on site I only spent £135. I did bring a lot of booze and came home with a lot too. I would have spent a lot less but due to being too far from the tent / car when I ran out I went to the bar. 

[fowls]

14 minutes ago, battleborn said:

Planning to go in 2019 for the first time (ticket dependent of course; that's why it'll be the first time); so will be keeping an eye on this to see how much to budget in addition to the cost (can always spend it on a holiday or another festival if I don't get a ticket). Be nice if people could give useful tips for saving money as well.

Bring all your own food and drink, don't buy any merch. Can't really get any cheaper than that. There is no walled-off arena like other festivals, so there's nothing to stop you taking your own stuff around all day.

 

To be honest, I have an atrocious lifestyle at festivals.  Peanuts, hobnobs, breakfast bars, then some carrots, apples and oranges. It's not much but I don't really feel hunger, it's only for a few days, and I find I'm usually too preoccupied by seeing music to fit in meal times (but I really wouldn't recommend it!!). I took about £200 but only spent about £40 including a T-shirt. Probably spent about £70 on food and drink beforehand (most of that on alcohol), though I ended up taking 3 times as much alcohol as I needed so I'll definitely cut that down next year - though I think the hot weather meant I didn't really feel like drinking this time round.

Edited June 27, 2017 by fowls

[Junglist1981]

I guess on reflection we probably spent £150ish between both kids, so that's £200 each for me and the mrs which isn't tooooo bad compared to everyone else.

 

[glitterstorm]

13 minutes ago, battleborn said:

Planning to go in 2019 for the first time (ticket dependent of course; that's why it'll be the first time); so will be keeping an eye on this to see how much to budget in addition to the cost (can always spend it on a holiday or another festival if I don't get a ticket). Be nice if people could give useful tips for saving money as well.

I spent £37. Bought 2 meals and a few drinks/snacks. Otherwise brought all my own food and drinks with me, and didn't feel too hungry a lot of the time...! A lot of people were laughing at me for bringing cooking equipment but it was actually nice going back to the tent to cook as our group always split up during the day, so it was a good chance to reconvene! You can definitely do it on a budget if you're able to bring drinks and stuff to cook with you. I think it helps that I'm not a beer/cider drinker (and don't tend to drink much generally), so I brought spirits which were light enough to carry.

[Matt - Ed Banger Records]

I came home with £12 from £300 that I took with me. 

[Crazyfool01]

Just over £100 , didn't need to spend much .. lots of generosity from people , lovely cherry bakewell vodka being one of the things x

[kaytee...]

Took 250 only spent 150. That includes whatever was spent in services there and back. Barely bought any drinks cos I had my own and apart from food only bought a teatowel and bag

[6t6o6m]

£183

[BenLFC]

£360ish between two of us. We don't take food so that's 2 meals each a day. The beer was too hot to drink on the Wednesday so that's all the booze on that day and the odd pint/brothers/pimms here and there. My misses loves the craft fields so she made a flower headband in there and got her hair braided and bought enough glitter for every man, women and child on the planet. Oh and we splashed out £25 on a double air bed! Not a bad return I'd say. 

[the wonderwhy]

Took 140 quid, have come back with 42 so 98 quid. £16 of that was on parking and £15 on a t-shirt... 

[RustyBee]

We appear to have survived on around £100 each. Which probably means we've miscalculated how much we brought in the first place...

[Deaf Nobby Burton]

About £600 between me and my wife. We took loads of booze out with us but interspersed drinking that within buying booze from different bars as we came across them. We also ate a lot more than previous years. Basically we had a more complete Glastonbury this year and spent longer out and about and had much later nights, due to it being just us two together meeting up with mates every now and again, rather than a big group together.

[Jugtanion]

1 hour ago, Junglist1981 said:

See that sounds exactly like our standard year. I can't for the life of me work out how we spent so much.

Might of bought a couple of rounds but nothing excessive. 

Had to buy a replacement hat and sunnies, maybe £15 in total.

Apart from that it was just food and beer.

I can spend £20 on food in one hour if I've had a smoke and condition my stomach with something delicious, if the lady does as well then I do start to worry about a trip to the cash point, but I think there are long periods when we don't eat and are just filling ourselves with the booze we've taken in. Did have some decent food this year, the standard seemed higher somehow, although that's for a different thread.