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Originally Posted by Zary's-Mustache
I will just lay everything on the table. I have no idea how people are surviving out there. I am married with 2 kids and make approx 90k after taxes. Wife doesn't work.
My mortgage is pretty low at 150k. I can't seem to save any money at the end of each year. Feels like I'm working just to stay afloat. I do save some but it definitely isn't enough for any kind of retirement. I don't have any benefits or a pension plan.
Having said all that I know lots of people are even in worse situations making less and it always boggles my mind how people can even afford these big mortgages. I have a friend who makes as much as me but his mortage is 3 times mine. I really don't understand how he does it.
Inflation is insane. Grocery shopping is insane. Feels like everything is over priced. I counted 12 strawberries the other day for $7. My kids eat 12 strawberries a day.
This is more of a rant and don't really know the point other than how are people getting by out there?
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I'm not.
for reasons, mine is the only income and I make less than 75K BEFORE taxes. (for a family, that isn't all that much)
getting rid of everything I can now for anything I can get for it, as I've "robbed peter to pay paul" so much, neither of them are speaking to me.
what little I have left I'm going to lose this year, while it seems most everyone around me is doing at least ok.
For most, it seems the struggle is having to cut back. A good day for me is not crying in my car after going to the grocery store leaving with less than half of what I hoped to get.