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How do you live on minimum wage?!

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DonNiggera

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Let's say you make $6.00 an hour... How on earth can you live by yourself??

The mathematics (not including tax deductions)
~$48 a day, working 8 hours a day...
~$240 a week, working mon-friday.
~$960 a month
~11500 a year

Monthly:
House payment:
~$250 (a mobile home)
Insurance:
~$150
Power/Water/Phone
~$150
Food
~$200
Car:
(Hopefully you have one that's paid off... at this wage)
~$150
Insurance:
~$50 save each month for 6 month payment
Gas Money:
~$100

How? I'm even missing some things from the list... It's not possible... Maybe have no power/water/phone/car?
 
well lets see... lets say they have no real insurance, steel food, and walk to work. that saves alot of money.
 
Well, depnding on where you live, your elec bill won't be that high... And there are phone services that are for low income family... here in cali it is 7.99 a month for basic service. But if you nix the car, then you save on all the payments/upkeep/gas/insurace costs. Also, if you use coupons and shop wisely, then you can eat for less then 200 a month. And if you find a roomie (or equally of a loser mate), much of this is cut in half. You can live on it, but wether or not it is a good living is another question.
 
First off, you'd probably do without your car.
Second, there's a reason a lot of people with low-paying jobs work more than one job....
 


<< Let's say you make $6.00 an hour... How on earth can you live by yourself??

The mathematics (not including tax deductions)
~$48 a day, working 8 hours a day...
~$240 a week, working mon-friday.
~$960 a month
~11500 a year

Monthly:
House payment:
~$250 (a mobile home)
Insurance:
~$150
Power/Water/Phone
~$150
Food
~$200
Car:
(Hopefully you have one that's paid off... at this wage)
~$150
Insurance:
~$50 save each month for 6 month payment
Gas Money:
~$100

How? I'm even missing some things from the list... It's not possible... Maybe have no power/water/phone/car? >>



Oh...the 'rich' boy posts again! Having fun living in your expensive house with all your brand name clothes your parents pay for????

Well, you wont have any money for a 2001 Celica, so you won't need one of them. Since you only have a crappy 'old' (pre '95) car, you don't go out, because you don't want to be seen in it (don't have to pay for petrol or anything). You can't afford $100 pants, so you don't go out, cos you aren't cool enough (ie, ppl will think you are a slob), that saves money as well.

What's your point of this thread????? Wanna give the 'poor' people sh*t????
 
- I believe if you're living at $6 an hour that qualifies you for food stamps, don't it?
- You also buy plenty of off-brand foods and clothes and anything/everything else with no-name
- Burger King is considered 'Eating Out'
- Ya get a 2nd goddman job cause $6 and hour ain't gonna pay the bills
- The Car will be a used one, VERY used
- Insurance on a jalopy is pretty cheap
- Low grade gas is getting cheap again
 
Let's say you make $6.00 an hour... How on earth can you live by yourself??"

Maybe it's impossible. Maybe you can't. What then, is your point?

Our government should have no business telling anybody how much to pay, or how much to work for. That's between you and your employer. Not to mention, in this country you can start your own business and charge whatever the hell you want! More people ought to quit looking to the state and unions for artificial wages and handouts, and learn from our great grandparents that made this country what it is. Be a man and earn an honest buck. Be an entrepreneur. Clean houses, cut grass, apply shingles or deliver packages. Is that a foreign concept these days? Man, it ain't called a welfare mentality for nothin'!

So Why Not a Ten-Buck Minimum?
By William F. Buckley Jr.
 
$200 a month on food?! Hell, i only spent $100 a month for 2 people! I'm anal rentitive about my Kroger card though. Saves me about 40% on each purchase.
 
here, many people work 2-3 jobs and live with a large extended family... maybe 5-6 people living in a 900 sq ft $1200 month apartment.
 
It can be done - rember many people have another person bringing in money.

I personally spend about $45-50/week on food (I like tropicana orange juice and chicken and it ain't cheap)!
 
$200/month, or $50/week for food is a lot especially for someone who's working minimum wage. Speaking from experience (a low point in my life but an educational one), you can live on $20/week on food if you take advantage of the store brands, coupons, store cards, and buy what you'll really eat in a two week period. I've gone food shopping with friends who buy impulsively (not entirely unlike some Hot Deals members with their toys) and end up throwing stuff away because they didn't get to the five pounds of hamburger before it developed sentience.
 
I can live off of dinosaurs, which are actually pretty good if you add sugar, garlic, and seasoned salt.

quote:
" Maybe have no power/water/phone/car? "

Notice that I said no car :/ There are a lot of sub $1000 cars, which would get rid of the car payment... but you have to have insurance... Cuz it would suck to walk to work every day...

Mexican's around here live pretty well, with about seven per trailor.... Oddly enough, they only have one car/truck, which is usually a brand new one.

The point of this thread is to gain personal knowledge... We pay out well over $5000 and $6000 in bills each month...
 


<< $5000 and $6000 in bills each month... >>



OMFG that is RIDICULOUS!

I understand house payments, 2 cars, etc.... but 5-6 GRAND? my GOD!

 
first off you need to subtract social security, and taxes and all that. also you dont need a car, andmost minimum wage workers live with other people, so its easier to share electrical and utilities. power water and phone is not $150 a month.


my roomates and i pay $20 a month for power, and we live in a nice apartment. with TVs and computer running. water is like $10 a month and phone for us is $30 split 3 ways. i dont get where you got the $150 figure, but it definitely isnt that much, i think combined 3 of us probably pay that much, for water, power, phone, dsl and cable a month.
 
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