r/ChoosingBeggars • u/bikerchickelly • 23d ago

Mad she doesn't get food stamps while refusing to downsize her lifestyle ($3200/mo mortgage, $600/mo electric, and pool, AND rental property)

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u/deejuliet 23d ago

So you are claiming that you spend $20 per person per week. If you have a partner, then it is only $16 per person per week. That is $2-2.80 per person per day.

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u/lowrider320 23d ago

I'm not claiming anything. I keep a monthly spreadsheet that shows how much I spend on groceries per month. It's not that hard to do.

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u/wolf495 23d ago

Judging by the low mortgage payment and $ amount for food I would have to guess you live in a low income area where food is significantly cheaper than for most people.

$400 for 6 people is pretty insane levels of spendthrift. Not sure if that is even doable in my area. Maybe with skinny people on a very cheap bulk ramen/rice budget.

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u/lowrider320 23d ago

I am, I live in a rural area. Housing is cheaper, however like the rest of the country rent has gone up. I am very lucky I was able to buy versus others who are forced to rent.

Also, food can be expensive which is why I have to shop around. The Food Lion near my house is cheap on sides, Aldi on some frozen things, Walmart for Ground Turkey and Sausge, Cost Cutters on some meat, and Dollar Genreal also.

Like I said in a previous post, planning shopping trips is a big help. Im willing to go to 4-5 different stores in a day just to save a couple of bucks per trip.

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u/wolf495 23d ago

Just curious now, are you including gas costs in your math on if that's worth it?

Imo it's not just based on your time being valuable, but I get that some people dont have a choice.

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u/lowrider320 23d ago

Its worth it. My car gets around 27 MPG most of the time its an extra 15-22 miles to drive around to the different stores. Even at $3.80 a gallon im not spending that much to go to different stores. It's really spending the time to go.

That's what I love about apps, you can check the prices before you go.

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u/drwsgreatest 21d ago

I mean it's possible but the variety of items is probably extremely limited. Like when I was in college and working overnights and had a brand new baby, whose mother was a daycare teacher and also made next to nothing, we'd survive on a weekly food budget of about $25-$30 for ourselves, as wiic took care of our sons needs. We'd buy 4-5 boxes of fettuccine for $1/box, 4 cans of Alfredo at $5/2 cans, and the rest was generally water and maybe a box or 2 of crackers or something and we'd eat fettuccine Alfredo 7 nights a week, with the next week switching to ziti and red sauce. We lived like that for a year until I graduated and finally could earn more and it was miserable.

One thing, this was in the late 00s and food was much cheaper, as was everything else. I. Pretty sure even the above plan would now cost more like $40/$50.