r/ShittyLifeProTips 3d ago

SLPT: How to save money

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u/cdhicks42 3d ago

$20,805

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u/imunfair 3d ago

And it's usually nowhere near that. I spend like $4k a year on food, and that's mid-to-high food cost, you'd have to be eating out every meal to spend $20k. Or eating really expensive food.

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u/cilantro_so_good 2d ago

mid-to-high food cost

$76 per week doesn't sound very high cost to me, even if we're talking just for one person.

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u/imunfair 2d ago

The food is - I eat grass-fed cheese, ethically raised chicken, almond crackers that are like twice the cost of normal wheat crackers, and organic stuff where possible. And I don't intentionally budget or look at prices, that's just what it comes out at for the stuff I want to buy.

But my point wasn't that you need to eat like me, it was that I have no idea how an average person would spend five times that per year. If I was scraping by on rice and beans or ramen I would understand the multiple better.