After my wife died, I dated a girl for a while who lived on a part-time walmart salary, about $15k a year. She rented a basement room in a house for around $500 a month, and her life was that room, and she had use of the kitchen and bathroom.
She had an expensive phone, and had yearly passes to theme parks, and got her nails and hair done, and managed to scrape by, didn’t have health insurance until Walmart started providing it, so she had some outstanding medical bills.
It was pretty amazing how you can live on so little money, when I can’t seem to make my paycheck work. :)
With all due respect Charles, surely you had to learn something from the girlfriend on how to make your paycheck work (better).