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I don't think drugs will fit in his budget...Living on $700/month? You're on drugs
I don't think drugs will fit in his budget...Living on $700/month? You're on drugs
What Zipper said (post #14).Rush Limbaugh is a great man. He has brains and guts, qualities which are in short supply these days. My main area of disagreement is with his eternal optimism. He thinks the leftist drift can be fixed. I do not.
Living on $700/month? You're on drugs
Data by category from 2/26/2009 through 8/25/2009, directly from Quicken, excluding the three categories previously mentioned:
Food -1,688.27
Utilities -1,058.37
Recreation -413.14
Auto -294.75
Insurance -159.20
Misc -141.50
Medical -73.79
Bank Charge -63.00
Clothing -59.66
Charity -58.31
Cash -46.59
House -44.08
Work Expense -20.06
Total is $4,120.72, divided by six is $686.79. My post yesterday was based on the six months ending yesterday, which included a grocery shopping trip for $87.03 on 2/25/09 and excluded the $6.35 I spent on lunch today. ($4,120.72 + $87.03 - $6.35 ) / 6 is $700.23.
I am on one maintenance prescription medication which is $15.99 for a 90 day generic supply at Rite Aid, appropriately categorized under Medical:Medicine. I also take a generic multivitamin every day, but I doubt you'd count that.
Let me know which specific number(s) you don't believe and I'd be happy to expand or clarify.
Based on your disbelief I am guessing you live in a much higher cost-of-living area than I do. Statistically you probably live within 100 miles of an ocean. I am a thrifty fellow living in cheap flyover country.
2Cor521
Hmm. I wonder what drug I was on when I wrote that.
Current numbers are about $3700 per month, with about 80% spent on kids, taxes, and mortgage interest. So I actually am living on about $700 per month aside from those 3 things.
2Cor521
Wow, I take back my crack about you being on drugs. That's seriously impressive.
Looks like there is nowhere near enough wiggle room in that budget for the kinds of drugs you guys are talking about, at any rate!I don't think drugs will fit in his budget...
Data by category from 2/26/2009 through 8/25/2009, directly from Quicken, excluding the three categories previously mentioned:
Food -1,688.27
Utilities -1,058.37
Recreation -413.14
Auto -294.75
Insurance -159.20
Misc -141.50
Medical -73.79
Bank Charge -63.00
Clothing -59.66
Charity -58.31
Cash -46.59
House -44.08
Work Expense -20.06
Total is $4,120.72, divided by six is $686.79. My post yesterday was based on the six months ending yesterday, which included a grocery shopping trip for $87.03 on 2/25/09 and excluded the $6.35 I spent on lunch today. ($4,120.72 + $87.03 - $6.35 ) / 6 is $700.23.
I am on one maintenance prescription medication which is $15.99 for a 90 day generic supply at Rite Aid, appropriately categorized under Medical:Medicine. I also take a generic multivitamin every day, but I doubt you'd count that.
Let me know which specific number(s) you don't believe and I'd be happy to expand or clarify.
Based on your disbelief I am guessing you live in a much higher cost-of-living area than I do. Statistically you probably live within 100 miles of an ocean. I am a thrifty fellow living in cheap flyover country.
ETA: Whoops, I just noticed I mentioned drugs first. Ignore any huffiness in the above, but the facts are still legit.
2Cor521
I don't think drugs will fit in his budget...
Here are our numbers for last year, just under $3,000/month (click then click again to make them big enough to read).
It's part of Car & Truck, though it should be broken out. $350/year for the Echo and 234.20 for the Tacoma.I just looked at it more closely and did not see "auto insurance".
I guess we just don't talk much. We pay about $23/month for the landline, use Kallcents dial around for our infrequent long distance, and we buy some minutes for our tracfone now and then.I also noticed that "telephone expense" is very low (340). What's the secret?
As another person in fly over country I have a few questions to ask.
How about house taxes and insurance you pay those if the house is paid for or not. What are they costing you?
... Currently my retirement plans involve quitting my job, selling the house, buying or building a teardrop trailer, and boondocking around the country.
One more question how do you get the food bill so low?
Not bragging, but my total electric bill for the past 12 months was $447, or about $37/month.... My electric bill last month alone was more than $400. T-Al spends a bit more than $500 for the entire year...
Not bragging, but my total electric bill for the past 12 months was $447, or about $37/month.
But, but, but Khan, your heating bill?
So, the talk of the teardrop trailer in a previous post in another thread was serious and not a joke. You are waiting for the kids to grow up and on their own, aren't you? For a single guy, it's not a bad way to spend some years of your life.
.............and John, if I might?
Anyone who would listen to Rush Limbaugh is a freakin' idiot!