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Yeah I guess I just don't see it. I spend $100 a month on food before I even make it to the meat aisle but we eat a lot of fruit. Even if it was just me by myself I couldn't live comfortably making $10 an hour unless I gave up everything I enjoyed and if I'm not enjoying my life than what's the point.
I guess it depends upon what you consider the good life...watching a big screen TV is not the good life to me...
Eating mediocre but high priced food while dining out isn't either.
You say you eat a lot of fruit,one thing you might try is to start eating seasonally,it would cut down on the costs....
People need to stop thinking that they can eat cheap out of season food.
For one thing, out of season food has travelled thousands of miles to get here and to do that it is often picked before it is ripe.
LOL...people do it all the time,people can actually live on only a few thousand a year.
The problem is all the expenses that modern people think are 'needed'.
10 pound bags of chicken are $7.
50 pound bags of rice are $22.
Dried beans are VERY cheap too.
Rice and chicken is not a balanced meal, and is certainly not delivering a USDA recommended daily level of nutrition, and, would lead to fun things like scurvy, osteoporosis, joint problems, digestive problems, hair and fingernail disease, etc.
Then they are overpriced, right? Most housing is. I think $500 a month is much more reasonable for a 2-bedroom, myself.
Housing is priced based on various market factors. Sure, if you live in the middle of nowhere with few to any amenities, your housing will be less, because nobody wants to live there. Its got temperature extremes, high taxes, no jobs, polluted, dangerous, etc.
In reality, NYC housing is actually underpriced, because a lot of it is under various city ordinance that doesnt allow building owners to get market rate for the buildings.
I guess it depends upon what you consider the good life...watching a big screen TV is not the good life to me
Me either but I go a lot - not to eat; but I like to go to shows and festivals and events and musems and plays and just about everything else. I catch a lot of free stuff or cheap stuff but you still have to drive to get there and eat.
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You say you eat a lot of fruit,one thing you might try is to start eating seasonally,it would cut down on the costs....People need to stop thinking that they can eat cheap out of season food.
For one thing, out of season food has travelled thousands of miles to get here and to do that it is often picked before it is ripe.
We pretty much buy the same thing year round; bananas, grapes, apples, pears. It's more veggies really - I go through a $8 carton of spinach leaves every week; plus the raw peppers (yellow, red, orange) are about $4 for the pack of 3 and I usually buy two or three of those; we spend about $15 a month on milk..at least $20 on bread....I don't know food just doesn't last long around here even though I buy in bulk
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Anyway I am off topic.
It's ok I think everyone else...
I don't think it should be mandatory for an employer to offer PTO but I have liked my jobs that did offer it more than the jobs that didn't...but on an overall scale the jobs that did offer usually had more employee appreciation than the ones that did not.
Corn, peas, green beans, tomatoes. Canned. Lots of rice and hamburger and chicken. She ate the majority of whatever potatoes she cooked, as I don't care for them. Pasta's cheap.
rice and chicken is not a balanced meal, and is certainly not delivering a usda recommended daily level of nutrition, and, would lead to fun things like scurvy, osteoporosis, joint problems, digestive problems, hair and fingernail disease, etc.
lol.....
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lol that sounds awful
