[Various surveys that I have talked about in the past have found that more than 60 percent of all Americans are living to paycheck to paycheck, but I didn’t realize that things were quite this bad for about half the country. If you can’t even come up with $400 for an unexpected emergency room visit, then you are just surviving from month to month by the skin of your teeth. Unfortunately, about half of us are currently in that situation.]
I think it’s far more than half, IMHO.
If one doesn’t have at least $400 stashed in your house for ANY kind of emergency I think they are foolish.
I was down to my last two cases of bottled water and went to Costco. All they had was the expensive water on hand. I went back two days later and they had about half as much of the normal cheap Costco brand. But that surprised me. But like I told my family - “That’s why I have two cases of water in the shed.” (Not counting all of the half-gallon juice jugs filled with water.)
Yeah - I’m a bit crazy. Until last week when Costco was almost all out bottled water!
By the way. If you go into the Apple store and want to buy a phone, but don’t have the $400 - they tell you to leave. If you go into the emergency room and don’t have the $400, they treat you anyway.