How do you only pay 250 a week grocery? Family of 3 here and mine is 325 to 350 or so a week without junk food or expensive meets or anything extra. Where do you all live? I'm in Masshole. A damn carton of 18 ounce blueberries here is between 7 and 10.00. mostly 8.99. my kid eats one of those every other day. Lol. Gas with a hybrid is about 50 and I only drive far 1 day a week. Eating organic or farm fresh would add another 100.00.
Lastly you can put money into an IRA for you and another one for your spouse to lessen your tax burden. Put in the max for each of you. I mean it's money you can't use yet but at least you'd owe the government less and it will compound. We lowered our total tax from 6k to 1500 by doing that every April.
NJ. Blueberries here are $3.99. Gas here is usually $2.85 but went up to $3.85 after Iran. NJ usually has the lowest has prices in the country due to Port Elizabeth on the coast. And that's including having attendants pump our gas. It's actually illegal here to pump your own gas.
I complain because during Trump's first term, the same grocery bill was around $180 per week. And wife and I cook fresh (we try to cook enough for 2 days when we do cook except for Sunday).
We both already hit the IRS limit on ira contributions. We do a lot of traveling and eating at nice restaurants which consumes thousands per month. We're both more than set for retirement so dumping money in creative ways to save for retirement is not appealing. We want to use our money to live now.
Son is touring colleges now and with our incomes, we will get very minimal financial aid. That also pisses me off that we'll have to pay ~80k for college while some kid whose parent scrubs toilets will have his college paid for. How is that fair? This country punishes success and rewards indolence.
I was told you either learn to balance a checkbook or you make enough money that you don't have to. Yet it seems like if I was destitute, I also wouldn't have to because everything would be given to me for free.
This country is upside down. So again, what the fuck reset is Trump talking about?
Well that person's kid will have a ton of student loans putting him in debt to the government whereas your kid will start fresh. I guess that's the price of parenting. Make sure they are in a major and school that won't brainwash them for your money.
I emancipated myself from my parents at 17. There's paperwork for that. In which case your kid could also take loans and grants without strapping you for the money because everything could then be in his name if that's something you find appealing. I had no choice. I had deadbeat parents and needed to be able to move out at that age. Course that was decades ago. Maybe it's different now
A former CEO at Walmart said these companies are keeping the prices up due to greed. He was questioned about tariffs and said, Walmart could easily have absorbed the tariffs, as could any other large corp like that. Some just want to make Trump look bad and others are just plain greedy. If the people will pay $10.00 for something and they could lower the price to $8.00 now, why should they? They can make another $2.00 profit - just because they can. Evil buggers.
I also think the prices are high because so many illegals have limitless EBT, snap, etc. It's like when government got involved in student loans for colleges. Tuition went through the roof after government guaranteed those loans.
Which then begs the question, why isn't Trump mass deporting everyone instead of focusing on criminals?
How do you only pay 250 a week grocery? Family of 3 here and mine is 325 to 350 or so a week without junk food or expensive meets or anything extra. Where do you all live? I'm in Masshole. A damn carton of 18 ounce blueberries here is between 7 and 10.00. mostly 8.99. my kid eats one of those every other day. Lol. Gas with a hybrid is about 50 and I only drive far 1 day a week. Eating organic or farm fresh would add another 100.00.
Lastly you can put money into an IRA for you and another one for your spouse to lessen your tax burden. Put in the max for each of you. I mean it's money you can't use yet but at least you'd owe the government less and it will compound. We lowered our total tax from 6k to 1500 by doing that every April.
NJ. Blueberries here are $3.99. Gas here is usually $2.85 but went up to $3.85 after Iran. NJ usually has the lowest has prices in the country due to Port Elizabeth on the coast. And that's including having attendants pump our gas. It's actually illegal here to pump your own gas.
I complain because during Trump's first term, the same grocery bill was around $180 per week. And wife and I cook fresh (we try to cook enough for 2 days when we do cook except for Sunday).
We both already hit the IRS limit on ira contributions. We do a lot of traveling and eating at nice restaurants which consumes thousands per month. We're both more than set for retirement so dumping money in creative ways to save for retirement is not appealing. We want to use our money to live now.
Son is touring colleges now and with our incomes, we will get very minimal financial aid. That also pisses me off that we'll have to pay ~80k for college while some kid whose parent scrubs toilets will have his college paid for. How is that fair? This country punishes success and rewards indolence.
I was told you either learn to balance a checkbook or you make enough money that you don't have to. Yet it seems like if I was destitute, I also wouldn't have to because everything would be given to me for free.
This country is upside down. So again, what the fuck reset is Trump talking about?
Well that person's kid will have a ton of student loans putting him in debt to the government whereas your kid will start fresh. I guess that's the price of parenting. Make sure they are in a major and school that won't brainwash them for your money.
I emancipated myself from my parents at 17. There's paperwork for that. In which case your kid could also take loans and grants without strapping you for the money because everything could then be in his name if that's something you find appealing. I had no choice. I had deadbeat parents and needed to be able to move out at that age. Course that was decades ago. Maybe it's different now
A former CEO at Walmart said these companies are keeping the prices up due to greed. He was questioned about tariffs and said, Walmart could easily have absorbed the tariffs, as could any other large corp like that. Some just want to make Trump look bad and others are just plain greedy. If the people will pay $10.00 for something and they could lower the price to $8.00 now, why should they? They can make another $2.00 profit - just because they can. Evil buggers.
I also think the prices are high because so many illegals have limitless EBT, snap, etc. It's like when government got involved in student loans for colleges. Tuition went through the roof after government guaranteed those loans.
Which then begs the question, why isn't Trump mass deporting everyone instead of focusing on criminals?