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Originally Posted by good samaritan
I assure you that people could live off of less. Every family has to have multiple vehicles, larger than necessary homes, electronics and many other things to be average middle class. The problem is that Americans are worldly. The NT saints sold all they had to follow Jesus, but Americans feel like they have to have everything the world has to offer. The bible says having food and raiment to therewith be content, but we have to have much more than that.
My grandparents raised 7 children in a 2 bedroom house and did it without welfare. When the kids wasn't in school they worked. Kids today don't work, but spend their time playing video games and goofing off. There is a reason all the middle class jobs are going over seas and it ain't just the governments fault. Meanwhile mom is out on the job trying to give her children all the things she never had while neglecting to give them what she did have (a mother that was there and a proper raising).
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I take home roughly $2,000 a month. My rent is $790 alone. Add on utilities (electric, gas, water), a car payment, insurance, cell phone bill, and student loan payment, and I'm left with around $35 to $40 (on average) to get by on for two weeks. That means I have to make roughly $40 dollars cover gas money to get back and forth to work, child care, groceries, auto maintenance, any needs the kids might have, toiletries, etc.
Frankly, we'd sink without a second income. Because gas money alone is roughly $40 a week.
Oh, and we have only
one vehicle.
People say, "Why don't you move? That rent is too expensive." Well, I could move, but I'd only save $200 bucks, and my kids would grow up in a meth infested neighborhood with gunshots going off all ours of the day and night.
So, the little lady works part time (almost full time). I pay the bills, and I cover my gas money. She pays for living expenses. Her job is within a mile and a half of our home, so she often walks or catches the bus.
The kids go to school, so during the school year they stay with a sitter for a little over two hours until one of us is home. That's only missing two hours a day with us. They do their homework during this time and play outside. So, they're basically doing what they'd be doing even if they were at home with us. So, no serious time lost.
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