How much money do you need to live?

/edit - 50 people living on 1k a month

I consider a car a basic need, I guess I could scale down if the need be. but say im getting rid of home phone and getting rid of gym membership, so minus $575. That's still $2000. I thought about it after I posted and I guess some of these people must be renting rooms in a house to be able to pay like $300 in rent, either that or they live in a tiny town where real estate is practically free.

51 people who must be sucking cock for a living..

I didn't sday NOT to have a car. Just not a $500 one. WTF kind of lease is that a Lamborghini?

In Kokomo, Indiana my wife and I live a decent life on around 2500/month, and that is with 2 babies. Give or take 500-800/month depending on how things are going for me and if she takes a some time off from work.
Our exoenses look like this

mortgage: 350/month (70k$ house, owe around 47k on it, put about 20k down when I bought it, back when money was flowing, 1400 square ft house, 2BR, living room, family room, dinning room, 1 BA, and kitchen, ya its a small house but its not like I am living in a hut

car payment: 100$. Right now I got 3 vehicles, all are old, but all of them run great. 2 of them are paid off, and the third one we are only paying 100$/month on.

gas: around 200/month

Car insurance: 110/month

Utilities: 100/month electric, gas (can get up to 200/month in the winter) average is around 100/month, cable and internet 90/month, phone 30/month, water 30/month
Total Utilities around 350/month

That right there is just over 1100/month, that gives us an easy 300/week for food, diapers, formula, and to do stuff on. Its not the easiest or most fun lifestyle, but its certainly not too awful bad

i have no bills. and i still need 10,000 a month to be happy. expensive lifestyle.

lol, nah, I know, but if I was cutting down on monthly expenses I guess the best way to do that would be to buy a beater for a couple grand and spend nothing monthly. But $500 a month isn't THAT much for a car man. It's an Infiniti QX4, but I got some buddies with beamers and mercedes who are paying $700+ for their lease.

$2K

Around 1.5K for the bills, with food and everything else 2K should do.

With rent truck and insurance and everything 1400$ per month.

The rest goes into savings or investment.

The big difference is the house. share apt $300 to nice house $4k.
Because all the shit that goes with the bigger house is more. More water, lights, maid , yard service etc..

House 2k
car 1k
kids 2k
util 1k
travel 2k
stuff 2k

TOTAL 10k

small house and love to leave it.

damm I hate to think that really with no extravagent spending my bottom line is about 5.5k a month to cover the bare bones basics...and that's with NO credit card debt...


I really wish there was a way to drop that number significantly, I guess I need to work on paying off one of the cars, that shit adds up with insurance and gas (that was figured into the bottom line of course)...

Do you eat gold for dinner?

jesus christ i don't understand how you all need so much to live,

for me to live simply it's like $700 a month! course i own the house already.

6k just about covers everything

At least $2500 for me and my familly...(7 members)...