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The link in the first post of this thread is lifted completely from this early December article:
Down and Out on $250,000 a Year
The link I listed has lots of tables to help one understand the expenses. I'm pretty sure we discussed this before on the forum, but my memory fails me.
... now it comes back ...
The budgets show $4000+ for dental costs. That means at least one person in the family gets a set of braces every year. And since there are $15000 costs for day care and baby sitting, it means the kids get braces while they are in pre-school. Plus they added $8000 a year for college savings. When we paid for daycare, we were not putting money in a college fund. OTOH, maybe they mean college is really a giant day care and baby sitting operation?
I would not be surprised if "Parking fees" were double-counted as well. We pay for long-time parking at the airport when we go on vacation. The folks depicted in the article must park in the short-term lots.
The budget has ridiculous amounts for utilities and phone service (more than 4 times what we pay and we live in comparable location with comparable home size), plus may double count taxes on gasoline and phone.
Food (at home, at work, and eating out) was more than $22,000 a year or about $61 a day. What's up with that?
Someone must've written a serious rebuttal to these numbers and published them. Anyone have a link?
Down and Out on $250,000 a Year
The link I listed has lots of tables to help one understand the expenses. I'm pretty sure we discussed this before on the forum, but my memory fails me.
... now it comes back ...
The budgets show $4000+ for dental costs. That means at least one person in the family gets a set of braces every year. And since there are $15000 costs for day care and baby sitting, it means the kids get braces while they are in pre-school. Plus they added $8000 a year for college savings. When we paid for daycare, we were not putting money in a college fund. OTOH, maybe they mean college is really a giant day care and baby sitting operation?
I would not be surprised if "Parking fees" were double-counted as well. We pay for long-time parking at the airport when we go on vacation. The folks depicted in the article must park in the short-term lots.
The budget has ridiculous amounts for utilities and phone service (more than 4 times what we pay and we live in comparable location with comparable home size), plus may double count taxes on gasoline and phone.
Food (at home, at work, and eating out) was more than $22,000 a year or about $61 a day. What's up with that?
Someone must've written a serious rebuttal to these numbers and published them. Anyone have a link?