Are lots of people(im speaking USA for me) just retarded with money and dont/cant admit? I get kids, hard times, job loss, emergencies, etc… but solo living doesnt seem anywhere as hard as people make it out to be. Dual income with someone who also is frugal seems like a bonus. Im talking in the vein of saving money. Im excluding the housing market issue and job market for those in specific careers where growth is fucked atm.Purely to get by, in a safe place, isnt very hard, Especially if solo. I hear co-workers complain but refuse roommates, they get new cars too soon instead of functional cheap used, they got subscriptions out the ass, they fucking travel and stack shit on CC, and buy useless shit. I feel like even bringing this up is the equivalent of just flat out saying.Like my states COL has gone up 100-150% across the board. I have to move but see it as a saving opportunity. support networks generally dissolve heavily for most in 30s to 40s unless you are insanely fortunate. Marriages, kids, sick relatives, yes these are reasons to stay for some but im talking about those where that isnt the concern, where just staying for known “comfort” isnt worth it long term. Its also not just my own life im talking about, people really dont seem to want to sacrifice anything when even a little goes a long way. Food is the most basic but fucking insane one to me. How is a single person spending $100 a week on food? Mines like $80 for 2 weeks and I can go even cheaper, in a HCOL(scaled to wages, the cost went up, not wages, only those on the property ladder benefitted)Am I ignorant?
>>62236793my wife spends $300 a week on food. I tell her I'd be eating ramen in our current situation if she weren't around.
>>62236793>$100 week on foodHonestly my man, that’s literally the bare minimum you can spend. I’m assuming you’re ignorant/blind to the poison we’re being fed.
>>62236933I cook everything and wait for sales. I got 24 good eggs for $8. Bake own bread, 2 loafs, like $4 no poison. Bundle of bananas weekly, like 5$. 2 weeks of breakfast, $19
>>62236974Life is for living, not just surviving
>>62237102But im saving shitloads so I can have better living later. Its why I saved so much prior because I had tons of medical shit for 5 years and a few ER visits. I would have medical debt. Instead im not and making a move.My friends dad sacraficed a lot so he could help my friend get her first house and all he does is travel right now.
>>62236793>How is a single person spending $100 a week on food?Retards who earn $12/hour will buy a $25 doordash lunch and not realize they just gave away 2.5 hours of their life (after taxes) for a lunch they should have skipped because they are obese.
>>62236793>Are lots of people(im speaking USA for me) just retarded with money and dont/cant admit?Yes. It's quite easy to show this by looking at the percentage of people who continue to live paycheck to paycheck despite making $500k+. If people had their shit together then those living paycheck to paycheck should essentially fall off after higher incomes (accepting differences in cost of living areas, different family sizes etc). >How is a single person spending $100 a week on food?Honestly easy as shit if you're not frugally oriented. If you eat unprepared oats, rice, beans, frozen broccoli and a little chicken and eggs 90% of the time, never eat out, and never pay for any beverages besides water, sure, you can be cheap. If you say "hey I'd like some salmon tonight", "I would like to buy hot coffee", "I would like to eat at an actual, full service, not a chain restaurant where I sit down and order an appetizer and an entree and the waiter brings it to me" easy peasy to go to several hundred a week
>>62237162I think a lot of the population really can't do math so they just see "$25" and think "I have more than that in my account" and "it is normal to order doordash". Like tens of millions of people just make decisions based on vibes. Same deal with getting a 10 year car loan at 20% interest on some shitbox truck, they see other people do it so they go to the salesman and ask how they can do it and they decide their income makes it possible to pay for it so they do.
>>62236793>Am I ignorant?your criticisms are correct but only apply to a narrow age and health demographic.most people don't fall within that age range or health profile. But for the people that do, yes. They should be doing a lot more to save money because in a matter of 10-20 years they're going to age out of the ability to earn money with their physical labor and have to find ways to survive with their brains.the other thing you're ignoring is that people do only what they have to do. At your age people don't have to find ways to earn more and save more, so they don't. When they get older and have to be more efficient, most of them will.
>>62236793there's also the fact that about 1/3 of americans are on government assistance of some sort, and those people are actually not allowed to earn or save more money.there's a gap where you need to increase your earnings enough to cover the lost assistance, and for many that gap is impossible to cross.they can't make enough to survive, so they stay on welfare making and earning very little.these people aren't going to tell you they're surviving on government assistance most of the time. You'll just see them not making or saving much money and think they're stupid when it may very well be on purpose to keep their assistance.
>>62236793You retarded with this pussy
>>62236793>Im excluding the housing market issue and job market for those in specific careers where growth is fucked atmOh sure if you just exclude the two biggest problems then everything looks hunky dory
>>62236793insane that amerikeks really consider it normal to share their home with some brown stranger. even on neetbux people don't have that, hell even students these days don't do that anymore and theres endless horror stories from those that did it in the past
