India, May 31 -- A Gurgaon-based couple has broken down their monthly expenses to show "how salary today competes with lifestyle inflation every single month". Gagan Saini, a brand manager at MuscleBlaze, shared an Instagram video last week where he explained how he and his wife managed to jointly spend Rs.1.59 lakh in the month of March.

"This is how much we spent in March month as a newly married couple living in Gurgaon," he said.

The biggest portion of their monthly expenses went towards rent. The couple lives in a 2.5BHK in a gated society of Gurgaon, for which rent and electricity bills together come to around Rs.50,800.

In March, Saini's brother-in-law stayed with them for a bit, so the grocery bill reflected expenses for a thir...