74Heaven Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 My Ford minivan gets 18-20mpg & my husband's car gets 25-30mpg and he frequently carpools is 80mile RT commute. We live 15mi from any shopping and most destinations. We spend $125 a week and it is driving me crazy! (this does not count my teenager's gas costs - just husband and wife vehicles? We spend only slightly more each week for *food*. How much do you & your spouse spend for gas each week. Lisa J Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Faith Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Weekly.. 2 vehicles.. (1 Ford Fusion and 1 Ford F 150).. $50 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shellydon Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 $45ish for me $65ish for DH since he commutes to work Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AnthemLights Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Me....$40 a month...I don't go to town that much. We live 45 minutes away and it is just not worth it. My husband....ah, that's another story. He is self-employed. Works in construction and sometimes fills up 3 or 4 times a week....$75 dollars each time. It hurts. We spend WAY more on gas than we do on groceries. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LauraGB Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 We spend $125 a week and it is driving me crazy! (this does not count my teenager's gas costs - just husband and wife vehicles? We spend only slightly more each week for *food*. How much do you & your spouse spend for gas each week. Lisa J Same here. Dh spends about $85 and I get away with about $40. And that's with me not driving out of town. Way to put it into perspective, by the way. I really hadn't thought of it like that before. Now I'm even more annoyed than I already was, lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynn Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 maybe $30 between 2 vehicles. DH works from home. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gingersmom Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I spend about $40/week if there is nothing planned and we are just doing local driving. Come September when I am driving all over to classes and stuff it will probably be about $65/week. I have a new car with good gas mileage but I did manage to put on 24,000 miles in its first year. :001_smile: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tap Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 $50 for me. My car gets 22+mpg. $100 for dh. His car gets 42+mpg but he drives a lot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sukale Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 $60 for my Pacifica $40 for his Ranger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JFSinIL Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 I fill the tank every 7 - 10 days. About $50- 60 each time. It is a 1999 Town and Country mini-van. Hubby's monthly ticket for the commuter train (which he walks to) runs about $146 a month. It is our second "car" ;-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katiebug_1976 Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 Dh has a company vehicle, so his weekly gas is paid for by his company. For the family, we have a Ford 15 passenger van and we have budgeted $75 per week for gas (this doesn't even fill the tank up all the way anymore!). The closest shopping is aboout 7 1/2 miles away. I know it's not far, but we still have to limit our trips to town. If we get to go to church on Sunday, our gas budget goes up to about $115 (our church is 75 miles away, so due to gas costs we don't get to go every week). **I'm in the process of trying to streamline our trips to sown to cut our gas budget if I can. Thank goodness my dd's aren't driving yet! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Princess Peach Posted July 17, 2011 Share Posted July 17, 2011 We only have 1 car and DH's work is only 2 miles from home. We fill up our minivan every two weeks or so. I guess that works out to around $60 every 2 weeks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 $450-550 per month :glare: Dh's truck is a diesel guzzling monster and my van isn't much better. I need to drive less, but I always seem to have so many places to go! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy in NH Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 (edited) ~$125/wk It used to be a whole lot less. I've cut back on outside activities - can't afford the gas or the activity fees anymore. I've also been combining trips as much as possible. Court ordered custody exchanges 2 hours away 2x/month don't help much either. Edited July 18, 2011 by Amy in NH to say that this is a 1/4 of our income. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
historically accurate Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 About $130-150 per week. Dh commutes 130 miles RT Mon - Fri. I take the kids to activities (swimming is currently 15 miles away 4 times a week). It is our single biggest expense currently -- more than rent even! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joker Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 $80 / week (We each fill up once a week) $50 in my Camry - $30 in dh's Corolla Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarreymere Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 DH rides a bicycle to work, eight miles one way. We didn't have a vehicle for several months but now we have a minivan. I only use it to take the kids to the beach or something. We live three miles from the nearest public transportation line, so I appreciate the van with four kids to take with me but it isn't a necessity. I think we spend about $50 a month on gas. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rosy Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 About $125/week during the school year when we have co-op and activities. Probably closer to $80-90/week in the summer. I *hate* spending so much on gas. :( But we've looked into DH taking the train to work, we really wouldn't be saving any money unless we got rid of our 2nd car, and we're not ready to do that yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renee in NC Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 DH rides a bicycle to work, eight miles one way. We didn't have a vehicle for several months but now we have a minivan. I only use it to take the kids to the beach or something. We live three miles from the nearest public transportation line, so I appreciate the van with four kids to take with me but it isn't a necessity. I think we spend about $50 a month on gas. We live within walking distance of public transport, but we haven't used it yet. The biggest problem is that we have to take at least 3 buses to get much of anywhere and possibly more. The time factor is HUGE - a 45 minute trip by car is a 2-3 hour bus ride (each way!) I still want to figure it out, though, as we can go anywhere in the area for $6 total. Dh's expenses are about to go way down - the person who he usually rides with just bought a Prius, so he will no longer drive to work every other week (they were switching off.) He'll only have to drive the 3 miles there and pay for 1/2 the expenses (about $30 every 2 weeks.) Biking/walking isn't happening - he'd have to walk/bike through a rough area of town. A drug dealer was shot in broad daylight at a gas station there just a few weeks ago. This also makes me a little leery of public transport - the transfer station we'd have to use to get downtown (so we can go anywhere else) is right there as well. Navigating that area with 6 dc in tow makes me a little nervous.:001_huh: But, as with everything, if we had to, we would.;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redsquirrel Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 We live in town and only have one car. DH bikes in good weather, takes a bus in the snow. I have a mazda5. We fill the tank about twice a month and it was 50$ to fill my mazda5 last week so 25$ a week? If I had a bike and took that to the stores I could cut that down by quite a lot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alpidarkomama Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 $60-80/month. DH takes the bus (or drives 2-3x/week when I don't need the car). We can either walk to places we need to be or drive there in 10 minutes, with occasional jaunts further afield. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Laura Corin Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I spend about sixty pounds every two weeks. I take the boys to school, so that's a total of twenty miles a day. I don't run that many errands in addition - most are done on the way to or from school. I mostly walk to work. When husband was working, he was spending a similar amount on his commute - his car is a diesel and gets better mileage, but his commute is longer. Laura Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bairnmama Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 I live in a rural area... so things are spread out and there's not really any public transportation. I'd have to drive 12 miles just to get to the closest bus stop! Also, the bus only goes to about 7 places in town anyway. During the summer, I've been spending about $40/week. It's more than double that during the school year. I have to drive over 25 miles to the place where I teach my art classes, one way. BTW, I have a 16 yr old Camry wagon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amira Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Zero. We spend about $15 once every three weeks on bus fare to the big city. No matter where we live in the world, it's important to us to not have to spend a lot of time in (or money on) the car. We lived in Seattle before we lived where we do now and spent $30/month on gas and didn't ride the bus, but I walked and rode my bike a lot. Seattle is a great place to not have a car. I do love living in rural areas, but long commutes aren't worth it to me. Since gas is relatively very expensive here (it's about $2.50 a gallon, but the average salary is $100/month), people drive their cars very little if they have one. Walking several kilometers is completely normal and a one-way bus ride within my city (5-10 minute drive) is about 15 cents ($1.10 by taxi). A one-hour bus ride is a little more than a dollar, or it's almost $7 by taxi. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarcyB Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 We're spending about $45/wk if I'm driving a lot. Hubby drives 25 mil each way to work, but I stay mostly in our small town (I've got the gas guzzler). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LaxMom Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 $100 (maybe) for the van/month (Odyessey), probably the same for my husband's car (98 Volvo wagon). We live in town, but in a rural area. It's a 30-60mi RT if we need to do any shopping, though we have a grocery in town for picking up odds & ends. No public transport, and they are JUST finishing putting in sidewalks to the grocery, so now you can walk without being run down. We walk to destinations in town, or I ride my bike. We no longer schlep to activities 20 miles a way on a regular basis (for various reasons, not just fuel prives). My husband has a 97 mile round trip, but he works every fourth day so the commute is twice a week. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DawnM Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 Dh's commute is 50 miles per day, but thankfully 26 of that is the commuter train. We budget $50/wk roughly (I budget $200/month) and then the commuter train ticket is an additional $56/month. So total budget is $256. We occasionally get up to $300. Dawn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MamaAkins Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 My Ford minivan gets 18-20mpg & my husband's car gets 25-30mpg and he frequently carpools is 80mile RT commute. We live 15mi from any shopping and most destinations. We spend $125 a week and it is driving me crazy! (this does not count my teenager's gas costs - just husband and wife vehicles? We spend only slightly more each week for *food*. How much do you & your spouse spend for gas each week. Lisa J We spend about $100-140. We have an 11 year old minivan that gets about 17mpg and a Toyota Corolla that averages about 35mpg. But, we live in a more rural area and have longer commutes to dh's work (25 miles each way) and to most of our activities (dd1 dance 4-5 days per week and it's 12 miles each way). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twoforjoy Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 We don't drive much. We live 2 miles from where DH works (and where I work during the year), and other than DH driving to and from work, we make one or two trips to get groceries or shop in the weekends (usually about 5-10 miles away). We have a lot of friends and some fun places to go within walking distance, so I pretty much don't take the kids anywhere we need to drive to during the week. I'd say we fill up about once a month, for about $40-50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
songbirdie Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 $120ish per week - 2 vehicles. It's driving me crazy too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
QueenCat Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 We average $75/week. I build in an extra $25 for the weeks where we'll have unusual driving. Like this week, when ds has a writing camp 35 miles one way from home, and then I have to drive somewhere to hang out and wait for it to be over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
butterflymommy Posted July 18, 2011 Share Posted July 18, 2011 We intentionally don't drive much or far to avoid a huge gas bill. We have a low mpg van, I spent about $25-30 a week to make a few grocery runs, doctors appointments, one library trip, one post office trip (all very close to home). It's crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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