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HuskerBeef
Posted 1/17/2019 10:32 (#7251229 - in reply to #7250559)
Subject: RE: Good post below, new twist, cost to live


Northeast Nebraska
davpal - 1/17/2019 00:03

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.


Just having internet to post on this forum runs me about $2/day.
Electricity for that computer or charged device, plus if the well runs to pump water, the water heater heats any of that, and maybe turn a light on every now and then so I don't run into the wall. That comes to $3/day.
Even if you produced all your own food (doubtful), you still have costs associated with producing it. $3/day might feed 1 person. My cost is just a tad over $4/day, but if you throw in grass clippings and squirrel it would cut down on some.
Burn 1 gallon of gas a day (and never need any vehicle repairs or maintenance) then there's a $2 bill.
Right there you're already at $10/day and haven't even scratched the surface of what the average person pays in living expenses. If by impressing the neighbors you mean our kids are wearing clothes, little Jimmy has a real cast on his arm instead of a stick splint, and we buy toilet paper on rolls instead of keeping a bucket of corn cobs in the outhouse, then you're darn right I aim to impress!

Edited by HuskerBeef 1/17/2019 10:40
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