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Columbia Basin, Ephrata, WA | davpal - 1/16/2019 22:03
These kind of threads always crack me up. Yesterday I just told the guys at work I don't think it cost me $10 bucks a day to live most days. Most peacocks think they need to spend $200-$500 a day to impress the neighbors. I don't know how I withstand the hardship. Getting over insecurities is the first step to living on less than you make. If you're insecure about yourself and your house and vehicles, and everything you deal with in life you'll spend yourself into oblivion and beyond trying to make up for being insecure and still won't be happy in the long run. Dave Ramesey calls it spending money to impress people you don't know and don't care what you do anyway. There are $25,000 dollar houses around here and there are $250,000 dollar houses around here. Admitting you might only be able to afford the $25,000 dollar one is a tough pill for people to swallow so they buy the $250,000 dollar one and two new vehicles and fight with the wife every day over money and end up foreclosed on anyway. They could have lived in the cheap house for 5 or 10 years and saved the cash to buy the $250,000 dollar house and never have a mortgage for the rest of their lives.
Nobody that can do math can claim to live in the USA for $10 per day. That’s an absurd statement. If you make any money at all, just taxes will be more than that, and if you don’t make any money they’ll give you more than that. You’ll find a living unicorn before you find someone on welfare that’s using it to build savings because they only live on $10 per day of it.
You can’t buy a Coleman tent on a patch of dirt for $25k here. Even Coup’s $65k might only get you a tar paper shack.
Good news for me is we live in a positive basis corn area, but most everything else seems to be positive basis also. As a whole, the USA is kind of a positive basis area for consumer goods. Be it due to taxes, regulations, liability concerns, or just because they can, things cost more in this country than in a lot of other places.
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- RE: Good post below, new twist, cost to live - davpal : 1/17/2019 00:03
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