That’s how much it costs to live the dream that Madison Avenue and Hollywood and Wall Street have sold everyone on.
Marriage doesn’t cost$30,000. A wedding can cost $30,000. Getting married can involve a couple hundred honorarium for the clergy, and that is about it. I think big wedding hoopla is important, to reinforce the importance of the institution, build family ties, etc. But if it is not financially feasible, get married anyway!
-PJ
‘That’s why they call it the American Dream, because you have to be asleep to believe it.’ - George Carlin
[[How much does it cost to live the ‘American Dream?’ One estimate says $3.4M]]
Only 3.39 to go- wonder if i’ll make it in time for the funeral
That’s probably for a “family” that might include two earners.
Let’s say you start at 24 years old, and retire at 67.
Let’s say you can average about a 4% increase in earnings every year.
Let’s say you start with nothing, but have to end up earning a total of $3.4 Million.
My excel spread sheet tells me you start off at about $29,300 per year. For a married couple, $29k seems like a slam dunk.
These stories seems to make the numbers seem crazy. Until you apply financial logic to them,.
It totally depends on your dreams and if you allow others to make them for you. The government, for instance, sets your wage limits, your tax limits to pay for their dreams, controls the price of consumer products, creates the inflation when it gets behind their spending, gives your dream money away to other countries and to those that didn’t earn it, increases their wages for their dreams, spends your money for shopping trips and golf days...there’s a lot more. So, whose dreams are we supporting? That makes our dreams smaller.
wy69
COSTS MORE TO GET UNHITCHED