According to court papers released on Thursday, here is what Britney Spears does with her $737K monthly income (with some editorializing by yours truly):
Grand total: $207,525
But what does she do with the other $529,475? Scarily enough, they say she doesn’t invest or save–again, too easy to take a potshot at.
I honestly don’t know what I’d do with this much money and I am not sure I will ever be in the position to handle this much—at least not in one month. But off the top of my head, I’d pay for my home in full, give more to charity, create a nest egg for myself, and set up college funds for my unborn children–I like to be prepared. And so I don’t seem all Mary Morals, I would also eat at really fabulous restaurants once a month and buy really fabulous clothes using one-tenth of Brit Brit’s budget–it’s called the look for less. I only wish I could make that much without lifting a finger, save for the one that opens the door to my Mini Cooper.
So what would you do with $737,000 a month?



posted November 2, 2007 at 2:00 pm
Heck, I can’t imagine what I’d do with that a YEAR. And that’s her income without having had a major album or tour out in a while. I guess from appearances, her other records, and maybe things like her perfume, etc. Which means she likely has had even more to spend.
Me? Well, I don’t know for sure. But I would hope I would at least have some kind of investment plan. I mean, you really can’t be a pop star forever. Does she really imagine herself at 65 on stage singing ‘Hit me, baby, one more time’?
I’d hope I’d manage a better diet for the children. I’d, if I had to, take lessons on how to buckle in a car seat, and I don’t know why she hasn’t paid off those two homes yet. And definitely more time/money for charity. She’s not even giving one tenth of one percent (which would be 737 a month) to charity.
posted November 2, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Britney should be using some of that money to hire a personal chef to make her kids healthy meals instead of buying them fast food and gas station specials. She should also hire some professional friends who’s sole job it would be to keep her away from unsavory people and keep her out of the recording booth.
posted November 2, 2007 at 8:46 pm
Personally I’d probably pay off all my family’s mortgages. Buy my mom and dad a place down in Delray near their friends. Myself a big farm for retired and rescued horses and a riding school for underprivileged children. Okay maybe it sounds a little grandiose and truth be told I’d probably go completely bonkers trying to figure out how to take care of all my needs and everyone elses wants. I guess I can fantasize can’t I. Well on the other hand maybe I just realized what happened to Britney….bummer.
posted November 3, 2007 at 1:03 pm
I was shocked to see how little she donates to charity. $6,000 per year is horrible. I’d like to see her get involved in an organization such as the one that I work for. We fight for workers’ rights (www.iwj.org). There are so many workers in the U.S. who don’t make a living wage and struggle daily.
Those who are so blessed would benefit by stepping outside their limited circle and experience the reality faced by people in low-wage jobs.
Cynthia
http://interfaithworkerjustice.blogspot.com/
posted November 4, 2007 at 12:11 pm
I wish i could have that much money. I would share the money with my children and grandchild. I would make sure my grandchild would have a good education. I would make sure my grown would have a place to call their own.
posted November 4, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Britney has had her problems and I’m surprised she’s given this much money each month “to play with”, so to speak. That is a HUGE responsibility for such a young person, no less a woman with on and off again drug problems, and a woman in the ‘spot light’ so often. If I had this much money to “play with”, I’d pay ALL my bills off ( I live on SSDI
due to a serious back injury in 1988), I’d get my Masters degree in Counseling so I could counsel people like her, because I AM like her, and have Bipolar disorder, as well! If I was given that much money so soon
after detox, I wold have only too soon have gone out and picked up the drugs up again like most addicts [ in recovery . . .] I know. I’m in Narcotics and at 14 years clean, I still go to meetings!
posted November 5, 2007 at 2:34 am
Pray for her so she wises up and starts doing something constructive with all that money, for herself, her sons, and for others.
As for myself, I would pay off mortgages, fix my house up, start a charity foundation, enjoy it and try to help people also.
posted November 5, 2007 at 12:14 pm
If I had that much money, I would only need it for one month…I would GET MY BONE OPERATION to save my life. Britney has a seriusly corrupted heart, which is why she can blow this kind of money and not do one thing good with it. I am dying for a surgery that costs money, she is dying of a corrupt heart. I think I like my circumstances better. At least when I get to heaven I will be rich…and not with money. Britney on the other hand will have a lot of explaining to do…
posted November 5, 2007 at 1:52 pm
I’d buy a PS3, an Xbox 360, a Nintendo Wii, a new laptop and desktop. Get a cool car (probably a Jeep or something) and get a nice one story house.
(hey, just being honest)
THEN I’d pay off everything, go to college, and invest. I am only young once, so I’d want to enjoy it before I get too serious.
posted November 5, 2007 at 2:03 pm
Wow!!! And I worked for 40 years, but cannot afford a house. She should give some to others. Not those corrupt charities, but find hard workers who never seem to get ahead in this crazy materialistic society where the wrong people have too much money and no sense or values.
posted November 5, 2007 at 2:11 pm
Well, the problem is, it is HER money. So she has full access. Barring those who have legitimate claims. (She has to make support payments, and pay those she owes.) She can spend it as she wishes, and I don’t know if the courts, other than paying for illegal things (like drugs) really could stop her anyway.
posted November 5, 2007 at 3:56 pm
don’t hate
posted November 5, 2007 at 5:03 pm
My only question is when does the water run dry? I know that her perfume, Curious, is doing fairly well..but she hasn’t had a hit song in ages…like, where is the income stream coming from?
posted November 5, 2007 at 9:33 pm
she s female ‘but’ confused livin in the fast tract, or so she thinks lots of kids see you and are in awe they dont realize they are poverty stricken, an ma-by dont even have food , hence Ms Spears in reverse she doesnt even realize the morsals off her plate may have saved a child or elderly person , we all have a dream and what if we had money for food or shoes or to go to the doctor,,ms spears suffers from the other end of the dream , except when we reach our dreams others watch to see our happiness and success,, some times all they see is a dream dying and making a fool out of it’s self it saddens me to see just how wrong a dream can bee!!
posted November 9, 2007 at 3:35 pm
I believe it really isn`t up to us how or what she spends her money on. Nobody would even care unless she was a popular singer or ect. As long as she takes care of her kids and her self. We do not ask to be judged for how or what we do right or wrong. I believe Kevin is only in it for her money otherwise instead of dragging Brittney through the magazines and t.v. shows, and saying what she`s doing wrong he should be protecting her for their kids sake. My daughter is 11 years old and regardless of what you guy`s say she is a good singer. Put your self in her shoes for once, always being watched and judged. What would you do, you would always make mistakes. We are only human. Get off her back. Let her live her life and give her rights back for her kids. I would love to take my daughter to meet her if i could afford too. My daughter can sing her songs and loves her very much. So, what I am asking is chill out on Brit, give her a break. thanks for listening.Love her biggest fans
posted November 10, 2007 at 5:06 am
Leave that kid along. Everybody has to work out there on problems in the best way they know how. Pray for her to find happiness instead of monitoring her every move. How many of us would like to have everything we do on the cover of every magazine.
Thats a lot of success and a lot of money, I’m not sure I could handle it.
posted November 10, 2007 at 11:37 am
I would be very happy to just have that much for the rest of my life would like to help some people and some nonprofit org. that I know . however I am 72 years old and I would also pay off our modest home maybe also maybe a mini cooper . But that said it is a total shame to waste 737.000.00 a month when so many children and families are in need .
posted November 10, 2007 at 4:04 pm
It’s sad to see aperson like Brit who has worked so hard to get where she is and everything just blow up in her face. I think when Justin T and Brit broke-up, she could not handle the rejection because she has had one after the other drama epersodes in her life since then. I could be wrong but,that is the way I see it. I have followed all that has happened to her since that break-up and that is the answer I arrived at. As for advise, which I’m sure she has heard plenty of but I have two daughters and have gone thru all thier ups and downs. I think at this time,because she doesn’t have custody of her children, it is the best time for her to go on a vacation and do some soul searching, she needs to climb into herself and get in touch with “what”in this world makes her happy with herself and “no one else”. This is the most important step for her. If she does that and follows thru with whatever dicisions she makes on that sabatical,and she stays true to those dicisions she may have a chance at some real happiness in this world. Also, she should find a cause that she can put her energy into, like World Peace or the children in Appallacia or anything she has actual sensitvity for and follow that emotion. If she could find her way clear to make that kind of commitment to that person or organazation, her life, the way we know it now will completely change. Well, that’s all I have to say, I wish her the best of luck to find herself.
Thanks Mary 11/10/07
posted November 10, 2007 at 8:52 pm
There are so many things to consider before judging Britney. I would think that she pays to go to the gym, for a personal trainer, bodyguards, hair and clothes stylists, food, clothing, gas, insurance and repairs on her cars, mortgage payments, nannies, pool man, gardeners, personal chefs, salon fees for nails, massages, and toes, tanning salons, waxing and removal of body hair, electric bills, home phone and cell phone bills, trash, sewer, water and natural gas bills, doctor bills, pyschiatrist/pyschologists bills, dentist bills, maid bills, dry cleaners, eye doctors bills, spousal and child support, charity donations, help to family members?, internet and cable bills, and who doesnt like just shopping at their local mall or Target or Marshall’s? So, see, she may have had post partum depression after the birth of her second child. Britney had 2 children in a little over a year, so give her a break! She works hard for the money, as the old Donna Summer song goes! Luv Ya Britney! Good Luck and God Bless You! MaryBeth
posted November 10, 2007 at 10:41 pm
This is my first ever posted comment. I hope it will help someone!
I am a young 78 y/o widow, alone for over 11 years. Never had children of my own, but after being single 11 1/2 years, married their Father to help him finish raising his 4 boys (then 12-18), and I quickly grew to love all 5 of them. Their Father had been a Baptist Preacher who was not allowed to preach after his divorce 10 years earlier; and had become a Real Estate salesman; and I was a Secretary, so we did not have much money. I ended up withdrawing my government retirement account to meet the bills. The boys were handsome and wild, smoking, drinking, using & selling drugs, and accepting all the sex the pretty girls offered. I told them they were too old for me to tell them they could not do those things, but that it was wrong for them to do them;and if they insisted on doing those things, they would have to do them some place else as they could not do them and live with us!
I made 2 rules: 1) We WOULD say The Lord’s Prayer at meals; and 2) If I cooked, they would HAVE to taste 2 bites (they didn’t have to like it or eat it, just try it). Those spoiled brats were raised by a sweet Mother, a Dr. Spock afficionata, who let them do and eat only what THEY wanted, so I enlarged their food choices greatly, and the Lord helped me change their lives for the better. They stopped smoking and doing drugs, stayed in school, and bragged to their Mother that I was very good to them, which she appreciated, and so we became good friends
until she died about 10 years later of breast cancer. The boys to love me more than their own Mother, so they told me. All were Saved and Born-Again; and the 2 older boys surrendered their lives to Preach! They all thanked ME, but it was the Lord who led, because I knew noth-
ing about raising childen! He gave me the grace to love them and lead me in re-molding their lives. All children need their parents’love and guidance! Although we were happily married for 20 years, I paid a high price for the privilege of a short season of Motherhood as my hus-
band died Aug 11, 1996, of lung cancer, and I must make do on a very limited Social Security income that has to cover rent and all the esessentials, which is not nearly enough, but the Lord helps me manage
…which leads me to Britney’s $737,000+ monthly income…What a sad
waste of God’s provision! There are so many suffering children, as well as adults, who could put just a little of that money to good use! Just a few extra $$ would help me pay my bills, and perhaps even buy decent transportation, and a few things I need…not to mention help-ing many in need! Apparently she is uninformed about God and her res-ponsibilities towards her children and her income blessings. She needs someone to care for her…and I’d be glad to be her friend and help her to become a better parent and happier individual, if only she
could contact me. In the meantime, I can pray for her!
Sincerely, Betty Lou Turner
our home.
posted November 11, 2007 at 5:21 pm
First of all I give thanks to God for my life, and so should others, whats lacking in a lot of our lives is the knowledge of God, because if we would put him first, then we wouldn’t have a problem living with that kind of money. You see everything in life is a test that he put us thru to see how well we will take it and if we pass the test then we are better able to understand how to live with ourselves and other. Things get hard for a lot of us because we have no Christ who lives in us and thats’ when life is diffcult to face. We can help some of the people sometime, but we can’t help all, we can change the world, all we can do is the best we can. People prey on other people lives by what the media has to say and print. Face it would you want the whole world knowing about your private life, who should know but you and God, the world can’t help you only God. You see I’m poor financially yes I work, but I barly make it I live in fear every day of God everyday, not in what man may or may not do, because I’ve come to realize that nothing can happen to me that God and I can’t fix. You see man may bring me down one way but comes right in and lift me up. In the book of Malachi God speaks of Tithes and Offering, so with that kind of money that the first things I would do give that 10% the next thing would be to take care of myself, my children, grandchildren, get myself out of debt, by paying all the businesses, and people I owe, then the next thing I would do is take care of my family, and help the people who need help. An investment is nice, but when you look at it you tripple pay Uncle Sam in every thing you earn, so what is he doing with all that wealth? poor people are getting poorer, middle people are still in the middle and the already wealth are even wealther, so I ask you where do we stand?
posted November 12, 2007 at 11:21 am
I would help everyone in need that’s what I would do with that kind of money. But life is not just money, life is loving one another even the people that we hate you have to love, I’ve learn alot, We have to pray for each other Brittney I know that the Lord has a purpose for you so don’t ever lose your faith, we all go through rough times but we have to let our father who is in the heveans leads not in tempatation but deliver from evil..Amen love you girl..Have faith and you will see what the Lord can do for us……
posted November 13, 2007 at 8:53 am
The question at hand was what to do with all that money. For me, it would be one thing, for Brittney she has to spend a large amount of money on keeping her career going in order to keep that kind of funding.
So, if it were me, I’d pay off people’s debts so that they would be in a position to pay other people’s debts. Isn’t that what the Lord does for us? Forgives us our debts so we can forgive the debts of others? The end result of this kind of behavior would be that the economy would get rolling again and we could then take the concept worldwide. And isn’t THAT our calling, to go into all the nations preaching the gospel? As James says, faith without works is dead. Living faith dictates that we act the way that God acts toward us, so we should be actively paying off the debts of others.
posted November 19, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Okay….Brittney really needs to get it together. First of all, I use to be a fan of hers. My comments are not meant to bash her in any way. There is absolutely NO REASON for her to spend this much money, and not invest it. She’ll be broke by the time she’s 50. The sad part is her two small children. She isn’t thinking of their futures. She is extremely self-centered. If this was the case, why have children. She is unfit as a parent. She’s paying a dead beat dad child support to care for her children. What kind of mother does that? In all, I’m sick of hearing about her; hopefully a light bulb will come for her; and soon!
posted November 25, 2007 at 12:05 pm
The first thing that I would do is to pay my tithes each month ($73,000 plus). I would put $100,000.00 in my rainy day fund. I would pay all my monthly bills. I would give 50,000.00 a month to charitable organizations that cater to children with incurable diseases. I will give another personal donation of $100,000.00 each month to the University of Chapel Hill’s Sickle-cell anemia disease Unit to assist with research to help find a cure. My daughter has sickle-cell and this disease needs alot of attention. I would assist my great neice with her tutition payments. I would donate money each month to different churches to stock their food banks so that they can assist people that are working but having a hard time feeding their families. I would create a scholarship fund in my children’s name so that I could assist other children with acquiring an education. The balance would be split between my savings and checking account.
posted December 21, 2007 at 3:10 pm
I read all this news about Britney and all her money. What is sad is, that if she really wanted to do something good in her life she would give more to the underprivileged people. Let’s just say it is people like me. I’m 68 years old..was working as a caregiver until I got sick and under Dr’s orders had to quit. Now I try to pay bills on $537 a month social security. Sometimes I think it all sucks. Then I turn around and thank God for what he has given me in other ways. Why doesn’t she start an e-mail site for people who could use some help. Her giving away money to charity is always deductible. God Bless Her!!