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keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:02 am
by southernboy
here's how to keep living expenses to under 5K per year. get a 4-person house and split the rent. The house i'm in is about $325 with utilites per person, meaning that your total housing cost should come to about $3900 per year. What about food you ask? its simple, you can theoretically spend less than $100/year on food if you buy the Jumbo packs of ramen noodles and eat them for bfast,lunch, and dinner. yum yum

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 1:03 am
by D. H2Oman
southernboy wrote:[strike]here's how to keep living expenses to under 5K per year. get a 4-person house and split the rent. The house i'm in is about $325 with utilites per person, meaning that your total housing cost should come to about $3900 per year. What about food you ask? its simple, you can theoretically spend less than $100/year on food if you buy the Jumbo packs of ramen noodles and eat them for bfast,lunch, and dinner. yum yum[/strike] Useless post

I agree

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:00 am
by TTH
D. H2Oman wrote:
southernboy wrote:[strike]here's how to keep living expenses to under 5K per year. get a 4-person house and split the rent. The house i'm in is about $325 with utilites per person, meaning that your total housing cost should come to about $3900 per year. What about food you ask? its simple, you can theoretically spend less than $100/year on food if you buy the Jumbo packs of ramen noodles and eat them for bfast,lunch, and dinner. yum yum[/strike] Useless post

I agree
+1

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:09 am
by LawandOrder
$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:30 am
by nealric
This is the way to accomplish your objective:
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What about food you ask? its simple, you can theoretically spend less than $100/year on food if you buy the Jumbo packs of ramen noodles and eat them for bfast,lunch, and dinner. yum yum
You would die of MSG poisoning. Plus, you are leaving out utilities.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 10:58 am
by holydonkey
nealric wrote:Or alternatively:
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That hobo has a box inside another box! That's a vagabond mansion where I come from!

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:11 pm
by brocklanders12
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:15 pm
by mikcou
brocklanders12 wrote:
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.
Again, you must live in the middle of nowhere. 4 bedrooms in this area will easily run 3000+ a month plus utilities.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:28 pm
by southernboy
mikcou wrote:
brocklanders12 wrote:
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.
Again, you must live in the middle of nowhere. 4 bedrooms in this area will easily run 3000+ a month plus utilities.
I actually live in Memphis(I'm in undergrad right now). My 4 person house runs about 1100/month in rent. Its not exactly the middle of nowhere, but it has a pretty low COL.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Wed Mar 24, 2010 9:31 pm
by cubswin
southernboy wrote:you can theoretically spend less than $100/year on food if you buy the Jumbo packs of ramen noodles and eat them for bfast,lunch, and dinner.
Your medical expenses will soar eventually from all the Kidney Stones you develop as a result of the 1800mg of sodium per package of Ramen. This will offset some of the savings.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:07 am
by brocklanders12
mikcou wrote:
brocklanders12 wrote:
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.
Again, you must live in the middle of nowhere. 4 bedrooms in this area will easily run 3000+ a month plus utilities.
College town in a metro area with over a million people. I guess being called nowhere is worth $2k less a month in rent. :lol:

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:25 am
by OperaSoprano
mikcou wrote:
brocklanders12 wrote:
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.
Again, you must live in the middle of nowhere. 4 bedrooms in this area will easily run $10,000 a month plus utilities.
Fixed, though I'm sure it would be pretty cool to rent half a brownstone.

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:34 am
by Grizz
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Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 1:45 am
by Great Satchmo
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Ya know, beer started as a way to preserve bread...so, I mean, it's really kinda food, right?

Re: keeping living expenses to 4K/year

Posted: Thu Mar 25, 2010 10:52 am
by LawandOrder
southernboy wrote:
mikcou wrote:
brocklanders12 wrote:
LawandOrder wrote:$1300 a month for a 4 person house including utilities? Sounds like you live in Middle-of-nowheresville.
There's a decent/nice 15 year old house in my neighborhood that's 1750 sq ft, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath and $1200 a month for rent.
Again, you must live in the middle of nowhere. 4 bedrooms in this area will easily run 3000+ a month plus utilities.
I actually live in Memphis(I'm in undergrad right now). My 4 person house runs about 1100/month in rent. Its not exactly the middle of nowhere, but it has a pretty low COL.
Ha further proof that Tennessee generally is the middle of nowhere.

I was calling Nashville MON in another thread not too long ago.