Video: Living Paycheck to Paycheck in America

[Smoblikat]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

Including you?

Oh wait, youre the exception. You are a special snowflake.

I have eaten one fucking meal a day for months now. I have gone an entire week (without eating BTW) with just 33 cents to my name. So dont try to tell me I dont understand what its like to be broke.

 

[desy]

I assume living paycheck to paycheck means spending all including servicing of debt without ever saving anything?
I used to for a short period when the wife was stay at home. She went back to work when the line of credit maxed out.
However asset wise always been in the black other than my first couple yrs out of school 30 yrs ago

 

[Atreus21]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

Uh, screw you. I do. I live it every day. Trying to keep our noses above water until my wife finishes nursing school.

 

[brandonb]

I don't live paycheck to paycheck.

But then again, I've always held a job since I was 18, and I'm 38 now. I guess having a job makes it easy to avoid paycheck to paycheck scenarios.

 

[Tweak155]

Dave, you live in Indiana and that is one of the cheapest places imaginable to live. I know, because I live here. I also know what you do for a living and I'd wager you make more than the national median family income (somewhere between $51K-$55K, IIRC). I don't understand how you're living paycheck to paycheck, although since everyone knows you're a moron, it doesn't surprise me.

Dang $50k? That's actually not bad at all. When I graduated college that's about what I started earning, and I had 0 money problems at all. Although, I had 0 money problems before that, making ~$10/hr.

If you can't make it on $50k/yr, I don't think $100k is going to help you much.

 

[IndyColtsFan]

Dang $50k? That's actually not bad at all. When I graduated college that's about what I started earning, and I had 0 money problems at all. Although, I had 0 money problems before that, making ~$10/hr.

If you can't make it on $50k/yr, I don't think $100k is going to help you much.

The national median FAMILY income is in the $51K-$55K range IIRC and I am pretty sure Dave's salary is above that, not to mention what his wife might make (assuming she is employed). Of course we obviously don't know how much debt Dave is in given his well documented issues in the past, but in most cases, those were his own doing so he has no one to blame but himself.

 

[Mai72]

Don't expect anyone here on AT to know what this feels like.

We're all multimillionaire big shots.

 

[z1ggy]

Wait let me guess, this is rich people's faults???

Or... just maybe, they could have gone to college to get a decent degree and earn enough money while making smart financial decisions to not live pay check to pay check? No.. No that can't be right....