re: Recommended emergency fund amount in months/years

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far as the unemployment numbers, that’s a fake government number same as how they say inflation is like 6% when it’s clearly more than 100%. Just look at meat and tallboys

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Lol you are a fear mongerer and a troll

What do I have to gain by spreading realism? It’s not trolling

Tallboys are like 8 bucks now when they were like 4.50 last year

A ribeye is like 20 bucks when they used to be 7 bucks

They want us to drink soy beer and eat bugs but it’s not gonna happen to me because I’ll be in the fema camp

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What do I have to gain by spreading realism? It’s not trolling

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Attention

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Tallboys are like 8 bucks now when they were like 4.50 last year

A ribeye is like 20 bucks when they used to be 7 bucks

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So based on these two things inflation is 200%?

Where does this 50% population who drives better cars and eats better than us exist? Because I'm not seeing them.

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Where does this 50% population who drives better cars and eats better than us exist? Because I'm not seeing them

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Either in the handicapped spot with the Escalade or pulling the 2 carts filled with Cheetos and t bones baw

ETA: I don’t do it for attention like 7 people look at this board

Dual income household. We have 4 months of bills and expenses liquid in a high yield savings account that we aren't touching unless we absolutely have to (we have other cash in a short term savings account for things such as trips, household upgrades, etc...). If I would lose my job, and my wife would keep hers, it could stretch us to ~12 months. If my wife would lose her job and I would keep mine, we'd be good into perpetuity, but wouldn't be able to save (this scenario is very unlikely, unless by her choice).

How much to recommend would vary greatly depending upon many factors. In your situation as a single person, I don't think there is any way that I would have 2 years saved up, but I also wouldn't tell you what to do with your money.

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You can stop trying to make sense of EL Gaucho's reply's. I take it your new to the Money board. He reminds me of women a lot of the time with their responses . He always gets the last word and the majority of the time what he's saying doesn't make sense. He keeps it lively over here though. I give him that.

You ever make it just west of Fort Worth hit me up and we'll have a tall boy and a bourbon. My treat. I'm not driving east of Fort Worth. I hate going to Fort Worth as it is.

Do you weld for a living or is that something I read where you were joking? I'm just a "hobby" welder that does side projects that I get suckered into. I agree with your comment about stocking up on stuff you can use to improve yourself. Plenty of lead to go around also.

I have a stock pile of steel in my backyard and tools to work it. If I ever need something built, I'm not paying someone to do it unless I just don't have the time or tool budget to do. Currently welding a metal fence for a family member. Also just got done fencing in my property with a pipe fence. Got a loafing shed to build for our horse in the next month. Welded a dock at the lake property at the end of last summer.

I was trying to wear him out, he has more free time at his job than I do apparently

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We generally keep about 6 months worth if both of us lost work. 12 months or more if just one of us did.

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Do you have this backwards, or am I missing something?

Edit: my head was up my butt and I lost the ability to math