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What is your monthly cost of living?

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$250 rent (living in house with 5 guys at college)
$42 Cell Phone Bill
$70 Bills
$150 food (guessing here)
0$ misc. (can't afford it 😛)
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512/month
 
$2600.00

Mortgage
Insurance
Auto
Cable
Utilities
Student Loans (4)
Cell Phones
CC's (2)

Consumables

A few other normalities

 
$700 Rent
$234 Car Payment
$190 Insurance Payment (GRRRRRR)
$50 Cell
$84 Phone & DSL
$40 Cable TV
$25 Water
$80 Electric (not bad for 2 refridgerators and 6 computers)
~$400 Food/Restaurant/Beer money
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$1803
 
$771 rent
$493 car
$131 insurance
$200 student loan
$75 electric
$100 cable/internet
$100 phone/cells
$554 personal loans
$337 credit cards
$98 wife's health insurance deduction
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$2859!!

Advice to young 'uns: Resist Debt!!! DO NOT have many credit cards. DO NOT buy things on debt. DO NOT take out loans. When I graduated college, I thought I was so financially smart. I said, "I'm not going to raise my lifestyle to exceed my salary." But over time, that's just what I did. I take home about $3000/month, and as you can see, that's about what I pay out. When you figure in food and miscellaneous expenses, there's nothing extra to pay down debt. So I'm stuck in a rut, paying minimums due. Can't get approved for a house, can't save for a down payment. My only hope is that stock goes back up, so I can sell some options. (It never will as long as you AMD zealots keep avoiding Intel!!) 🙂

I know, some will offer advice like "get rid of cable and internet and save $100/month". Well, I just gave up my cell phone, so that helps some. Can't cut cable/internet. Gotta have my priorities. 🙂
 
Not including food/credit cards, this is my wife and I's monthly recurring:

Mortgage $1400
Car Payment 373.00
Car Payment 309.00
Car Insurance 140.00
Power 100.00
Phone 50.00
Cell Phones 80.00
Satellite 50.00
DSL 50.00
Trash 11.00
Water 25.00
Domains (4) 16.00

~$2600
 
?550 rent
?70 electricity + phone
?15-50 cell phone
?40 naturalgas
about ?50 car insurance
about ?40 gas
food dunno 200-300 maybe
dope: ?100 prolly
forgot: cigs:?50
just me
 
$500 rent (soon to be $475)
$462 car payments
$210 insurance
$400 credit card
$250 groceries for me and my gf
$100 impulse buy dvd, clothing etc
$30 gas
$40 cell phone
$43 cable/internet
$75 gas/electric

damn .. i need to be making $6500 before i can afford a mortgage!

 
Between mortgage, 2nd mortgage, homeowners, trash, car payment, car insurance, gas, food, satellite, credit cards, other credit, clothes, timeshare, utilities, phone, cell phone, internet access, web hosting, haircuts, entertainment, property taxes, car taxes, school supplies, etc.

I was up to $4500/mo. in expenses. :Q

Down to about $1000 now with the sale of my house!
 
$700 rent & utils
$360 car
$140 food / groceries
$70 cell phone
$50 DSL
$300 life insurance (2 policies)
$110 car insurance
$75 gas
<$500 CC bill

damn...now that i look at it...time to cut back on some spending...
 
Rent $805
Car $262
CCs $600
Student Loans $210
Internet $45
Landline $25
Utilities $120
Food $300

Just over $2k, this is for two people. What ever surplus of $$ we have for the month goes to paying off CCs and to our savings account.
 
Originally posted by: aphex
Rent: $0
Car: $0
Insurance: $0
Cell: $0
School: Free + $1000/semester scholarship

My dad is WAY too nice to me.

LOVE YOU DAD!!!
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Oh wow... lucky bastard.
 
$875 mortgage
$700 truck payment
$100 insurance
$150 utilities
$500 credit card
$100 cable/internet
$200 groceries
$500 second for student loans

Wife and I both work, thankfully. Starting out is hard, but luckily we didn't have to take out too many student loans.
 
2200 - mortage
500 - phone, broadband, cable, trash, water, electricity
200 - home/car insurance
300 - groceries
500 - car payment
100 - gas
100 - lawn treatment/mow

$3900
 
400 rent
free cable
free cable modem
123 car payment
14 refridgerator (lol no interest otherwise I woulda just bought one)
35 phone
40-70 elec roughly I usually dont pay much attention
200 roughly for car insurance 2 cars
400 food usually more
my wife likes to sap the rest when she runs out of money from her paycheck
 
Originally posted by: Instan00dles
Rent: parents
Bike Insurance: 1500
Gas: alot? depends on how much riding I do
Food: parents


insurance is too damn much
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Ouch, whats with the bike insurance?

 
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