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re: Poll: Six-figure earners feel they’re in ‘survival mode’
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:10 pm to Mingo Was His NameO
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Your point is verifiably false, even factoring in eating as cheaply as possible
I don't think you know what this means
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Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:20 pm to ragincajun03
In this group to a degree
I make low 6 figures and do not feel wealthy at all. To be fair a big contributor is having a kid in private school and wife who is just starting to work again after years of me handling 100% of the mortgage, insurances, tuition etc.
While I I rarely put things on credit now, I am still paying down debt from earlier in life and it's not going as fast as I hoped, but not bad. I contribute to my 401k and a fund for my son, but when all bills are paid and we do average weekend activities there really isn't extra.
I make low 6 figures and do not feel wealthy at all. To be fair a big contributor is having a kid in private school and wife who is just starting to work again after years of me handling 100% of the mortgage, insurances, tuition etc.
While I I rarely put things on credit now, I am still paying down debt from earlier in life and it's not going as fast as I hoped, but not bad. I contribute to my 401k and a fund for my son, but when all bills are paid and we do average weekend activities there really isn't extra.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:25 pm to WigSplitta22
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I don't think you know what this means
I mean I can do the Jambalaya budget too if you'd like.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:28 pm to WigSplitta22
My daughter pays around $700 on northshore. I just asked her as I was curious.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:32 pm to ragincajun03
This is why even 50 year mortgages won't work. Consumer confidence is low. People don't really have job security given AI's disruption. Also inflation surges are on people's minds too.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:34 pm to CapitalTiger
quote:.
I mean I can do the Jambalaya budget too if you'd like.
I can too. This is from walmart
2lbs chicken - $7.96
PK of sausage - $6.82
2lbs of rice- $1.80
32 oz chic stock - $1.50
Misc veggies/seasoning- $2.00
Total before tax : $20.08
This post was edited on 11/18/25 at 2:36 pm
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:38 pm to WigSplitta22
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I can too. This is from walmart
2lbs chicken - $7.96
PK of sausage - $6.82
2lbs of rice- $1.80
32 oz choc stock - $1.50
Misc veggies/seasoning- $2.00
Total before tax : $20.08
No pork butt? And $2.00 doesn't even get you a bell pepper and onion.
Not to mention, you're over your $20/3 meal plan before factoring in taxes.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:43 pm to CapitalTiger
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No pork butt? And $2.00 doesn't even get you a bell pepper and onion. Not to mention, you're over your $20/3 meal plan before factoring in taxes.
If you eat nothing but jambalaya for 14 days straight and not another morsel you can come in under my bullshite number for weekly grocery spend….. barely
-Wig Splitta
What a fricking idiot, and he’s doubling down too
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:47 pm to Tiger Prawn
quote:For only $400 a month I can get a pack of Kool’s every day and a Powerball ticket. The smokes handle the whole “retirement planning” thing for me, but just in case they don’t, I’ve got the lotto to fall back on. And I still clear enough for an ounce of reggie and some Wingstop.
And $500 a month to have money in a retirement account.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:51 pm to scott8811
A couple years ago I was making right at 100 and lived in a $1,300 apartment, no car payment, no other debt
I definitely had money to spend and saved a lot but didn’t feel super comfortable by any means
ETA and by comfortable I mean significantly upgrading vehicle, housing, anything like that
I definitely had money to spend and saved a lot but didn’t feel super comfortable by any means
ETA and by comfortable I mean significantly upgrading vehicle, housing, anything like that
This post was edited on 11/18/25 at 2:53 pm
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:56 pm to WigSplitta22
quote:
2lbs chicken - $7.96
PK of sausage - $6.82
2lbs of rice- $1.80
32 oz chic stock - $1.50
Misc veggies/seasoning- $2.00
Total before tax : $20.08
maybe getting 8 servings out of that, probably 6
Posted on 11/18/25 at 2:58 pm to Dire Wolf
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maybe getting 8 servings out of that, probably 6
15 servings at the Splitta house.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 3:02 pm to GreatLakesTiger24
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A couple years ago I was making right at 100 and lived in a $1,300 apartment, no car payment, no other debt I definitely had money to spend and saved a lot but didn’t feel super comfortable by any means
Posts like these make me feel extremely rich. Couldn’t imagine renting at this age
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:35 pm to Warfox
Yeah I am asking myself that all the time
Posted on 11/18/25 at 6:55 pm to BK Lounge
quote:
We are already in a Depression , we just arent allowed to say i
quote:
BK Lounge
You don’t know what a depression is. That statement above is evidence that our problem is we are soft. An able bodied man can find ten jobs in a month right now. In a depression 10 men would find one job in a month - ANY JOB!
Posted on 11/18/25 at 7:29 pm to The Torch
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Not in Texas but our Escrow is higher than most states due to property taxes. Mine are around 9K a year
Yup. Mine just went up $300 a month.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 7:45 pm to Rize
Most of the people crying about money in this thresd most likely live in a house they can’t afford, driving a vehicle they can’t afford. Over priced car insurance($500/month is laughable) send their kids to private school and have a wife that doesn’t work. Victimhood at its finest
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:16 pm to Burt Reynolds
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Posts like these make me feel extremely rich. Couldn’t imagine renting at this age
I rented a couple times over the last 19 years but I always had a house I still had that I was trying to offload (corporate relocations). Usually packed my truck and rolled out, left all my stuff at my house until it sold.
Officially rented with all my shite in storage for almost 6 months and fricking hated it. I don’t feel rich but renting is not for me. I’d be way better off probably if I rented something reasonable but I’m not a reasonable person so to rent what I would want would be 50k to 70k a year. I’m not paying 1.8 mil to rent a house for the next 30 years to walk away with nothing. I’d rather sell my house and walk away with that amount of money to pay my assisted living
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:24 pm to TigerintheNO
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Last year, median household income in the United States was $83K
Yeah there are alot of free loaders got it.
Posted on 11/18/25 at 8:25 pm to Burt Reynolds
quote:
A couple years ago I was making right at 100 and lived in a $1,300 apartment, no car payment, no other debt I definitely had money to spend and saved a lot but didn’t feel super comfortable by any means
Posts like these make me feel extremely rich. Couldn’t imagine renting at this age
Seriously
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