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What does it cost you to live per day?

How much does it cost you to live per day?


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The poll question is way to open ended. It is meaningless., imo.




Plus-why is anyone worried about what it costs other people to live?

Does this person plan of paying our living expenses?

If not it's a mighty nosy question.
 
The US government needs to spend smarter, and you can differ on how that must be done but it has to be done. Than you can investigate if that means lower taxes, the same amount of taxes or more taxes for some and less taxes for others.





What does that have to do with how much it costs you to live per day?

Are taxes your only living expense?

I find that hard to believe.
 
I do not live in the lap of luxury but all my family spends is about 25 dollars a day for all our needs.
That includes health care, housing, insurance, debt payment etc. etc. etc. and of course daily expenses like food, gas, water and electricity.




What about taxes?

Don't you pay taxes?
 
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What does that have to do with how much it costs you to live per day?

Are taxes your only living expense?

I find that hard to believe.

I was responding to someone talking about taxes, hence my comments about that.
 
Plus-why is anyone worried about what it costs other people to live?

Does this person plan of paying our living expenses?

If not it's a mighty nosy question.


No one is forcing you to post in the thread.
 
I wonder if there is a calculator for this
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Expenses are food, gas, heat, electricity, phone, Internet, rent/mortgage insurance, upkeep of living quarters, taxes.... What else?




It's called having and keeping close watch on a budget.

Most people who have to pay their own bills do that.
 
What about taxes?

Don't you pay taxes?

everybody does, but most taxes are paid before you get the money on your bank account. Only VAT (sales tax), sewer tax and taxes like that are paid after you receive your wage.
 
$25 a day = an income of $9,125 a year, after tax, I guess. I reckon that's about what I have coming in. As far as regular outgoings, they look like this:

€1.5 electricity (goes down to ¢75 May-November)
€2.5 butane (goes down to ¢25 May-November)
€4 diesel for the car (€4 = 3l.= 50km. I work 24 km away from home)
€6 food
€1 local taxes, water, sewage
€1 internet connection
€0.5 mobile phone

€16.50 total = $22.60

Doesn't leave much room for manoeuvre, so I've no idea how anyone can cope on much less. Still, I'm lucky in owning my home outright and not having any major addictions.
 
Whomever. See, we need some college people.

'Whoever' is correct in that sentence. 'Whomever' is only used when referring to the object of the sentence. That's not the case here.

...within the means of whoever is paying the bills
...she or he is paying the bills. S/he is the subject of the clause, hence 'whoever' is correct.

Here's the rule.

The sentence does begin with a conjunction however. It's not necessarily incorrect, but in this context, as the beginning of a one-sentence contribution, it's in poor form.
 
Being a high schooler who doesn't pay the bills, I'm not really sure. So far today, I'd imagine that I've costed no more than five dollars. I got a glass (and a half) of milk, I've used a bit of electricity to keep my laptop/phone charged, and I ate a few kit-kats.

Really? Are you homeless? Because it costs about $40 a day just for rent and utilities here. There are 3 of us. I would estimate at least $20-$25 a day for my 12 year old son.
 
Really? Are you homeless? Because it costs about $40 a day just for rent and utilities here. There are 3 of us. I would estimate at least $20-$25 a day for my 12 year old son.

The thread is, "how much does it cost you..." If he's living with his parents it's costing them to pay the rent and utilities, not him.
 
Jobs and gasoline aren't part of survival.

Really? Because if I don't work none of the rest of it gets paid for. I should bring in about $1500 or more today, it will be gone tonight. But then I have a family of 3, a house, 2 vehicles, and a business to operate includinh payroll. I guess that's why I get so tired of hearing about us evil rich guys from people who live off of others complaining I don't pay my share.
 
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The thread is, "how much does it cost you..." If he's living with his parents it's costing them to pay the rent and utilities, not him.

In that case this is going to be a very informative thread. BTW at the end of it all I paid almost $20 a day last year just for federal income taxes.
 
In that case this is going to be a very informative thread. BTW at the end of it all I paid almost $20 a day last year just for federal income taxes.

I guess that means you earn somewhere around $46,000 of taxable income, if you're single, which is roughly $125/day. I guess you think that's a lot of tax.
 
Looks like a few people don't know how to allocate their monthly and yearly expenses to each day's expenses. /QUOTE]




And if your house is bought and paid for, or you live in a van down by the river, you don't have to worry about rent.

You forgot about the rent you pay to your local government/county/school that lets you keep that house each year and avoid a sheriff's sale.
 
I guess that means you earn somewhere around $46,000 of taxable income, if you're single, which is roughly $125/day. I guess you think that's a lot of tax.

Married, one kid, no mortgage deduction. I'd say it's a lot for taxes, but then most would probably say they pay too much. The perception is that there is a lot of waste and programs I (and many others I suspect) would rather not be paying for, which is going to translate to paying too much. Not sure where the threshold is that someone makes so much that they don't care how much they pay in taxes, but my business net was almost a quarter million last year and I don't have much laying around doing nothing. Between operating expenses and payroll I walk in the door in the negative every day and there are weeks (like last week where we were closed for 2 days due to impassible roads from a snow storm) where I didn't get paid. Materials costs were down, but fixed expenses are still there no matter what.
 
All told my daily average is somewhat north of $600 just to not be going backwards.

what I am finding interesting here is that very few people understand what their expenses actually are. I'm coming up on 7 years in business. Until just over a year ago I didn't really know either. It took a couple of hours sitting in my accountant's office to learn what all the lines in my P&Ls meant. But it really is astounding once you figure it out. On the up side once you do really know it allows you to take control of your life.

This year we are pushing expansion. The first step there is to understand what your expenses are and where your money is going. Only then can you get an accurate picture of what you need to do to grow and what that will entail.
 
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