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well, I don't wanna reopen the whole discussion of my ideal place to live because people always argue with me about it lol

but, anyway, I'm gonna try to save up money here and then find another studio somewhere else

Psh I don’t question why people want what they want

I get ridiculed for wanting a homestead pretty much whenever I mention it

Even living in a studio isn’t bad honestly. Like I like my apartment because it’s so low maintenance and pretty nice for a workaholic lol.

you might not question but other people do

no it's not bad at all

I could honestly live my whole life like this

Yeah at the job I’m about to leave I was working constant 45-50 hour weeks so I wouldn’t have been able to handle mowing grass and such

And hey, space isn’t always an issue. There’s a woman in here with like 3-4 kids who lives in a trailer

God...

my friends who have 14 siblings somehow managed and their dad is a truck driver

though I'm sure they were getting a lot of gibs

I know a guy who works with me. Makes 25$ an hour and supports all 13 of his kids and wife

With no gibs

how is that mathematically possible?

You can really cut a lot of corners. Kids aren’t as expensive as the media tries to tell you

Making your own bread costs only 30 cents a loaf. Making nearly everything from scratch will save you big money

He raises his own chickens, sells eggs, has goats and sells goat milk

Oh, and meat rabbits are super cheap to raise, easy to harvest, and reproduce very quickly. I think the cost totaled up to like 25 cents a pound or something

Median salary for my degree is $49,000 1 year after graduation. I calculated that I could live amazingly well off that in Spokane by myself. With a family it would be a totally different story though.

that's 1/4th what I pay for chicken right now

Really, don’t worry about it too much. I make 30,000 a year and still save 800$ a month while living on my own.

Yeah buying chicken is still pretty cheap, so I wouldn’t criticize that lol

That’s not the only way to cut corners either. It’s different for everyone. For me it was buying less coffee from coffee shops lol

I don't worry about it at all tbh

whatever happens is gonna happen

I could live pretty well off $30,000 here

right now I live off $10,000, so...

Geeeeez

10k is a stretch lol

I think the lowest I lived off of was 10$ an hour

well, I'm in rural Eastern Washington, so it's not horrible

though I do sometimes have to choose between eating real food and having a social life

I gotta bunch of cheap good recipes if you want em

Having a crock pot is also fantastic for budgets

My thing is, I buy roasts on sale at Kroger, they have buy one get one sales a lot. Then I get noodles, cream of mushroom, and some sour cream. I just live off beef and noodles in winter lol

oh ya that'd be great you should DM them or post on the cooking channel on the skills server in case other people want them

I’ll post on skills sever later today

Got way too much stuff to pack right now lol