The Joseph Rowntree Foundation have undertaken a academic study using a consensus from 39 different groups of people to come up with a series of benchmarks for an acceptable cost of living in Britain. This divides every day items into Essential and non-essential this meme is to judge what you think.

have def made this a tad personal, see indulgent 1!

5 Every day items you couldn't live without.

1. Living away from 'home'
2. foooooooooood
3. proper comfy shoe type things
4. pc with games
5. internet in general
5a. IPOD!!!!

5 Items you would deem as a once in a while 'Luxury'

1. Chocolate
2. pistachios (and fie, I say fie, at pedantic spellers)
3. take away
4. new clothes
5. dinner out

5 Items you would deem as 'Indulgent'

1. Taxi ride, even to/from hospital, there's a bus!
2. Holiday
3. Tevo
4. new shoes
5. dinner out (yes I know is on previous bit, but am in two minds about outness!)

5 Items you could live without.

1. tv licence
2. Theoretically games, but prob not in practice
3. Car haven't done badly w/o one :D
4. parents
5. actual real life friends...?