These are stable every month. I have a credit card balance that I pay as much as I can, which varies on how much overtime I can get and shove to it. Supps are also subject to extra money between bills. This is coming out of a combined income of just under $100k a year.
You add it up. I hate looking at it.
P.S…our little guy doesn’t go to a DAYCARE anymore! We’re paying a private in-home sitter! And we only pay her when he goes. In other words, she hasn’t gotten anything from us in the last two weeks!
Damn…MJ chiming in to publicly show hubby what an ignorant slut he is!
Well fuck me. I typed daycare because the sitter is…well…daycare. After all, who do you think my son stays with when he’s not at the sitter’s and MJ is at work and I’m not? I’m in my son’s life enough to know where he is when I’m at work. Sheesh.[/quote]
I shouldn’t be sharing this, but in the interest of disclosing how much living costs in my area, here goes (using only round numbers with +/-5% error):
Mortgage: $3,000
Cars: $500 financed one, own the other
Insurance: $200
Groceries: $600
Utilities: $400
Communications: $130
Gas: $300
Commuting (parking, train, subway): $300
Restaurants: $500
Entertainment: $200
Private School: $1,300
Babysitting: $80
Planned Savings (includes retirement, investments, kids college funds): $3,000
Vacation (1/12 of annual costs): $ 500
This is for family of 5 and doesn’t include my costs of sports pools because I usually win as much as I spend to play. Restaurant cost is mostly my breakfasts and lunches during the week, plus a couple of family dinners out during the month. I left out charitable contributions because I don’t keep track (other than church donations), I just give the receipts to my accountant, plus I feel it isn’t charity if it’s calculated. I also left off incidentals like my wife’s mani/pedicures, happy ending massages, etc. Food would be more, but there’s a full moon each month and we eat for free on those occurrences (hoowwwwwwoooooooo!). Whatever is left is for shits and giggles and extra investing.
Does everyone really track their cost for food? I tried for a couple of months…was coming in at around 1,000 - 1,200 for a family of 5. Mrs. Say and I had guessed we were hitting only 800/per month…the 1,000 - 1,200 included household supplies also…but was only normal stuff like toothpaste, toilet paper, soap, paper towels…
I just paid off all my credit cards, so of course I had to do the only sensible thing. Buy a $1100 gun and a $4000 engine for a $1200 truck.
Well, of course. As any man would. I’d be a liar if I said I didn’t put myself in much debt by buying a $1000 rifle and $3,800 worth of parts for a 12 year-old truck.
But by god, I could tear down the gates of hell and not break 3500rpm.
I respect,and support,both of those choices,wholeheartedly,and without reserve.
I love old vehicles .
And all kinds of firearms…[/quote]
The Gun is a Kimber 1911 Raptor II from their custom shop Offered the guy $1100 cash which saved me a few hundred. Damn, I love gun shows.
My '81 Chevy Pickup (1/2 ton, short wheelbase, fleetside) is getting a new 350ci/330hp crate engine. During installation I’m changing out cams and valve springs, just to giver her a little extra oomph. Afterwards I plan on putting in a new 4-speed transmission + overdrive and probably change rear differential as well. Of course then I get to change out the suspension, play with the exhaust system, new paint job…When all is said and done I’ll probably have invested $32,000 into a truck I can sale for $2000.
$737,000 a month doesn’t go far for Britney Spears
Court papers released Thursday in Britney Spears’ custody dispute with Kevin Federline show she spends lavishly on clothes and entertainment, and doesn’t save or invest any of her roughly $737,000 (U.S.) monthly income.
No offense MJ in case you never saw the Akroyd/JAne Curtin routine.
vaguely recall…
Damn I’m old.[/quote]
Indeed…and it sucks…a lot. I thought she’d get it…I was going to use the real line originally, then changed it…and I’m glad I did! I forget they are a few years back on me.
No offense MJ in case you never saw the Akroyd/JAne Curtin routine.
vaguely recall…
Damn I’m old.
Indeed…and it sucks…a lot. I thought she’d get it…I was going to use the real line originally, then changed it…and I’m glad I did! I forget they are a few years back on me.
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No offense Zap and Rock, but during that run of SNL we were just little kids. I know what skit the quote is from, but only from reruns. I mean I was like 4-6 at the time of that. The series started in 1975, I was born in 1976, and MJ in 1977. But don’t feel bad, anyone over thirty is old, right?
No offense MJ in case you never saw the Akroyd/JAne Curtin routine.
vaguely recall…
Damn I’m old.
Indeed…and it sucks…a lot. I thought she’d get it…I was going to use the real line originally, then changed it…and I’m glad I did! I forget they are a few years back on me.
No offense Zap and Rock, but during that run of SNL we were just little kids. I know what skit the quote is from, but only from reruns. I mean I was like 4-6 at the time of that. The series started in 1975, I was born in 1976, and MJ in 1977. But don’t feel bad, anyone over thirty is old, right?[/quote]
Now I feel old. I’m just a single guy running around enjoying life and come to find out I’m as old as you settled married folks.
Rock, perhaps their career automatically included a retirement or 401k plan, so they never see the money from their paycheck for that and don’t count it. Then again maybe they just suck at life.
[quote]Schwarzenegger wrote:
Rock, perhaps their career automatically included a retirement or 401k plan, so they never see the money from their paycheck for that and don’t count it. Then again maybe they just suck at life.[/quote]
Exactly. I don’t see it and don’t count it as income.
[quote]Rockscar wrote:
Doesn’t anybody have an IRA or 401k they deposit money in each month or am I the only one? I don’t see any future retirement saving expenses here.
Or am I just too fkg old?[/quote]
Right now I have 10% before tax going into my 401k. I didn’t mention it because I aint living on it yet. I will be increasing it soon.
