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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMy new, updated monthly budget
$1192.00 SSDI
$140.05 Veteran Pension
$1332.05
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$10.00 VA Co-pay
$10.00
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$40.00 Electricity (averaged out over 12 months)
$13.99 Amazon Prime
$11.99 Hulu
$10.00 Great Courses Plus
$25.00 Cell phone with unlimited text and talk
$40.00 Natural gas for heating, hot water and cooking (averaged out over 12 months)
$43.00 water & sewer
$67.00 Land line and internet
$300.43
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$140.00 Property taxes and homeowners insurance
$140.00
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$37.00 Credit card payment
$40.00 Credit card payment
$54.00 Credit card payment
$91.00 (two credit cards should be payed off by mid summer and the third by the end of the year)
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$200.00 Food, personal hygiene
$100.00 Miscellaneous, clothing
$25.00 Donation to Kamala Harris campaign
$325.00
$1332.05 - $866.43 = $465.62 available for discretionary spending
Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Agschmid
(28,749 posts)Kaleva
(36,406 posts)For sure the pension isn't much but I will always have access to VA healthcare and that has saved me lots of money.
shanti
(21,675 posts)I've heard of several vets with a disability who went for a raise and got it.
TexasBushwhacker
(20,256 posts)Kaleva
(36,406 posts)madinmaryland
(64,934 posts)I assume you must live near a grocery store so that you dont need transportation.
Kaleva
(36,406 posts)drray23
(7,638 posts)It's a damm shame. I am really sorry we dont take care of our vets better than that.
Mosby
(16,422 posts)Your cell phone plan seems really cheap.
Only $6.60 a day for food is pretty amazing, you must cook a lot.
Kaleva
(36,406 posts)"I averaged out the 7 dinners, the two breakfasts and added the lunch and mid afternoon veggie snack and multiplied that by 30.
I really tried to make sure there was adequate servings of dairy products, grains, vegetables and fruits each day.
Breakfast
Hot cereal breakfast $.91
Cold cereal breakfast $.99
average $.98
Lunch $1.47
Mid afternoon snack $.51
Dinners
Finnish hot dogs in sauce $1.22
Easy Chicken A La King $1.25
Black bean soup $1.17
Chicken chili $1.56
Chicken Stir Fry $1.47
Rotisserie chicken noodle soup $1.68
Sauerkraut and weenies $1.15
average $1.36
$.98 + $1.47 + $.51 + $1.36 = $4.32 x 30 = $129.60 "
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11283858#post24
Link to the thread:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/11283858
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)Kaleva
(36,406 posts)The house was paid for years ago.
Karadeniz
(22,607 posts)That's an impossible dream. I love Warren for her remedies. Did you listen to the short video of Wolff explaining different economic systems? We need a change or at least start subsidizing people instead of corporations...now, that's a weird use of govt assistance. Just to show that noone is 100% useless, Sarah Palin did popularize the phrase "corporate nanny state."
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)And if you divert as much as possible of the discretionary spending towards paying off the balances on those credit cards, you will experience a freedom like no other.
Kaleva
(36,406 posts)Pay off the balances of the credit cards.