Posted on 04/24/2014 3:41:08 PM PDT by grundle
In the 14 years I've been with my boyfriend, Nick, we've weathered a lot of storms — from my parents' divorce to paying off $50,000 of debt.
Nick and I started dating in 1999 as poor 19-year-old college students. We didn't know anything about managing money at the time, but we learned together. After graduation, we both found full-time jobs, in finance for me and in IT for Nick.
Living off two full-time incomes was a huge change from being broke undergrads. We opened a joint bank account and finally started to live comfortably.
I came home from work that night and immediately sensed something was wrong. The vibe in the apartment felt very somber. Nick was sitting on the couch, staring at the TV, though not really watching. When I asked him if everything was OK, he looked at me and said, "I got fired today," then went back to (not) watching TV. I'd never seen Nick so dejected. It was truly heartbreaking.
Nick and I began to realize that living off my $70,000 salary was indeed possible
(Excerpt) Read more at theweek.com ...
Wife and two kids and I barely cleared 30K last year. This lady is nuts. I’d swim in 70K
“Obamabots fer sure! Bet she gets free BC Pills too.”
If not, I’ll treat just to make sure they don’t reproduce!
No, I don’t recall that particular article.
That’s a lot of money for one evening out, even for someone who has a job and no debt.
OK. Good point about the cost of health insurance.
“That’s a lot of money for one evening out, even for someone who has a job and no debt.”
Not only that, but spur of the moment too. I think twice about spending $20.
my first instruction to her is GET MARRIED and if he doesn’t want to, kick him out....
TheWeek is one of the stupidest magazines around, worse than Time even. Somehow my name got on their list and they keep sending me dead tree editions, that go straight into the trash, with letters inviting me to subscribe. They wish.
Writing in “The Week” - isn’t that one of the left wing rags Yahoo News is always citing for its stories about how well Obamacare is doing and how nasty Republicans are.....
I did indeed get the link from the Yahoo home page.
The Week, Atlantic Wire, and a couple of other left-wing shill sites - if they quoted from National Review, Wall Street Journal and a few other more right-wing sources more frequently, I might actually start to believe they really were a “news” operation.....
Income is relative. If you spend all that you make, you never have enough money.
I have lived on next to nothing and was fine and have lived wealthy and was fine. Money does not make me full in activity, happiness and spirit. When I was limited in income (and will be again some day) I just do different things for entertainment and live without a bunch of stuff to move around and maintain. We put way too much importance on materialism.
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