How poor are you Sup Forums?

Pretty simple question. Do you regard yourself as poor? How does your day to day life look? How does it affect your viewpoints on world events and politics?

>Got an ok job, but it's still less than $20 an hour but at least its full time
>Go out for lunch or dinner once every weekend
>Can't afford partying, still live with parents
>Trying to save as much money as possible but I know any emergency of any kind WILL fuck me
>Haven't been to a major city (in my case NYC) for a year because don't know anything fun there that won't break my budget
>Most of free time is spent in libraries or window shopping; there's fuck all to do here in the suburbs after 24
>Can't relate to anyone younger than 25 unless they worked at least 2 shitty jobs
>Still leaning left wing, don't really care about trump, but HWNDU is fuckin hilarious
>Pic related, it's where I do 90% of my groceries nowadays

>Left wing

fuck off, kike

>Pretty broke $16/hour
>Forage food in NH here during the seasons you can
>grow a lot food
>Live with in my means
>Saving for some land and my own house, still living with parents
>It's pretty nice

nigga I used to get payed $5/h when I was 19.

Aldi is great man, I get better fruits and vegetables for half the price I pay at Ingles.

The concept that you should feel ashamed for not wasting money buying overpriced groceries at Whole Foods is just marketing bullshit.

Seriously why the fuck would you waste precious shekels overpaying for food? Who are you trying to impress?

Wife and I make round about 72k total a year. Broke because i have a 4 bedroom 3 bath home, 2 vehicles although one is paid off, now expecting child. I hate the left wing politics. Any emergency will put us further in debt. Truck has had to be worked on 3 times in the past 5 months. Can't afford anything else if it dies.

You need to get on that Dave Ramsey plan friendo.

>white
>work as a mcmanager for 11$ an hour
>trade bitcoins/stocks/forex on the side for an extra 2-300 in a good month atm
>net worth of 35k (12k if I buy the car I'm leasing in a year)
>live at home with parents
>gf lives 3 hours away (is mixed, single mother on disability/child support)
My coworkers are mainly black youth, they are so stereotypical... The owner is a black business woman whom I respect as she has done very well for herself (bought 6 stores in the time I've worked for her). But these kids she hires are absolute shit. Cussing/ lack of work ethic, lack of empathy in some regards.
Sup Forums has ensured I'll never marry my GF whom I am ambivalent about, she's about a chubby 6/10, I'm like a 7-7.5/10. She has no college education and is sort of slow sometimes, her mom smoked while she was prego.
I'll probably end of leaving her, or cheating on her down the line, but I enjoy her physical presence and it's nice to have somebody make an effort to talk to you.
I regard myself as very well off, and privileged. All my friends are in debt from school, and I'm only 5k left on my loans, but I'm making more money than the interest costs me so there's no point in paying them off.
I want to get my forex career off the ground and write my closest 10 friends from those years a check and set them free.

I'm socially isolated, really only talking to my gf.

I honestly think humans should be eradicated, we're such a fucked up species. People are so short sighted and emotionally driven. All this Trump shit amuses me, because people are criticizing him so much as if many of these problems (wasteful spending, using political office for personal gain) have never been in existence before.

shopping at aldies doesnt mean you are poor

aldi is great, besides the meat, the mince is good though.

I work at publix grocery store and make $12.40/hour do pretty poor

make less than 500 pw
rent and utilities rapes me close to 400pw
sell crack and lsd so i can eat

>>gf lives 3 hours away (is mixed, single mother on disability/child support)
Stop

Now

We just got an Aldi. It has a very East German feel to it.

Far Right.

I'm not poor now, but I grew up poor.

Which influenced me a lot, because unlike just about everyone I know who is left wing (they grew up in all white middle and upper class enclaves and only move into areas after they have been gentrified) I grew up around minorities, particularly refugees (Iraq, Lebanon and Vietnam) and have gotten to experience the beauty and wonder of Multi-Culturalism first hand.

And that's largely it for my Right Wing Politics. Economically I'd be very easily won over to moderate leftism. Crap like Universal Healthcare, Minimum Wage laws etc.

But the left in my country is frothing at the mouth mad about Islam, "Diversity" and Homosexuality and Cross Dressing.

They literally traded away economic hard lines that were fought for over decades (like wage protection, health care etc) in exchange for increasing the migrant intakes, with the belief that the migrants would bolster their voter base, while they would not lose the working class whites.

Now it's all gone to hell because they DID lose the working class whites, who first went to the moderate right, but since the moderate right are neo-con's, they are now losing that base to the Far Right, and everyone here is freaking out.

We had one politician come out last week and beg us to vote for HIS OPPOSITION, in the moderate left party, simply to keep the Far Right out of power because "they will force us to change our policies". He openly bold faced stated that the policies his nominal right party implements are barely different from those of the nominal moderate left, and that they view their joint partnership as the rightful ownership of our country.

Even "worse" we now have Australia's richest person putting up billions to finance a break away, Ultra-Right part made up of Trumpian style defectors from the moderate right.

It's going to be a big shit show if both major parties just hadn't been greedy pigs/Cultural Marxist ideologues.

Low six figures and plenty in investments.

Honestly just staying in the rat race until I get enough to get a nice piece of land and build a home and some workshops on it. Maybe another ten years or so.

Being single again makes it fuckin easy mode.

>be nurse
>make $22.65(really low for us, but Knox, Tn is shit)
>work full time
>full benefits
>paycheck between 1800-2000
>bought brand new Full trim colorado
>live alone in apartment
>have gf
>eat/live comfortably

How are you making just shy of 20$/hr and still with your mom.

earn 19.27 at current job, job trial for delivery courier tomorrow full time hours anything beats this POS job @ petrol station for 21 hours a week..

I live on my own and I cant afford a mattress due to rent and car insurance so Ive been sleeping on the floor for 4 months. Ive been saving up by only eating a meal once every two days.
I work at a help desk job making 16/hr.

>make less than 500pw at shitty manufacturing job
>rent utilities rape me at 400pw
>Sell crack lsd and week so i can have somewhat of a life
>Live in a decent but shitty socialist country
>Population of brainwashed lefttards
>Be Conservative as fuck
>Hate immigrants because i lost a high earning opportunity to an import because he can be paid less

there's nothing to do in cities that isn't entirely degenerate or done better elsewhere.

Just save your cash and live below your means for your entire life and you'll never be unhappy.

Stop being left-wing as well, it's probably why you have a problem with your life.

I remember working in a restaurant environment at one point in my life. I think I finally shed any semblance of political correctness when every single person working front of house and back of house referred to each other as nigga and cracked racist jokes at every opportunity they could get.

Also, I think that kind of environment made me racist. I couldn't trust any black guy under the age of 25, a lot of them were recent high school graduates or only had just that and, my god they were the LAZIEST motherfuckers on the beat. Props to the hispanics though, but there were days where they were unreliable, but when they work ,they WORK. I also virtually saw no white people working back of house; the environment really is a microcosm of society, a lot of tribalist bullshit goes on even in a modern civilization

There is nothing wrong with Aldi. Stop equating Aldi to poor people. Nobody equates Trader Joe's to poor people and that's the THE OTHER Aldi

What the fuck yes it does

christ your life is a mess man

you work at mcdonalds, live with your parents, and you're dating a mentally retarded mixed single mother

oklahoma. 25 y/o. make 21/hr but close to 60k with overtime. also get a company truck to take home. i have an old paid for truck of my own. rent on this 1 bedroom apartment i hate is 700/mo. I have money for what ever. lean right/center. voted trump of course.

>ITT: middle class role playing as poor

My earliest memories are living with my parents in a ford econoline.
>showering and brushing teeth at truck stops
>living on bologna sandwiches and ramen noodles
I'm not getting into my personal life now but my only luxury is an iPhone 5 and I spent so much time sleeping on floors and on people's couches I find beds uncomfortable. I literally can't sleep in them.

Being broke isn't that bad. I'm perfectly content as long as I'm not cold or hungry, and I can find somewhere to plug in my phone with free wifi.

Pic related, my dinner.

What the fuck is your problem?

I lived for YEARS making $13/hour CANADIAN, where everything costs twice as much, and I was absolutely fine.

What the fuck do you spend your money on you degenerate?

I was poor.

Grew up in shit conditions.

Put myself through college because I was white, and for some reason my mother made too much for decent grants, while also being unable to pay for a cent of my college.

Now I'm almost done with loans and working a high paying tech job.

When you're poor, you realize that basic shit is a major issue. Your tire is flat. Your cat is vomiting everywhere and won't eat. Your fridge can't maintain a temp below 40F.

It fucking sucks.

That being said, if you're in a spot where those things are not instantly remedied with cash for long, you're a shitbag. It's not hard to be not poor.

get your fucking life together

go to a temp agency

go buy some CCNA books and study that shit

fuck man, even if you go to the nearest unemployment agency you can usually get a free welding class or something

I get paid once a month, $3800 after taxes, I work from home as a programmer, I fucking hate it and it causes me much stress and anxiety, I sweat nearly 24/7 and am always exhausted from this. Been doing this since last September

I have no money problems, 23, college graduate(computer science) and have my own place with some friends who are still in school.

Desperately trying to get a job where I actually travel to work. The stress and anxiety are a result of never actually being able to leave work and go home(i work AT home) for a break. I am always being hassled by my work, especially since we work with a lot of offshore contractors which have weird hours.

Thankfully I may have a job offer coming in this week from a company in Boston. I'll take the first job offer I get thats over 70k at this point.

>Yes goy shop at walmart for vegtibles 8 times as expensive to prove you arnt poor!

A National Socialist knows that a person can only be poor of mind and character, regardless of money or material possessions.

oh wait my bad, her mom is single, not her

Asheville bro is that you?

How poor am I?

>Have eaten nothing but oats and spaghetti for the past six weeks
>sleep in a sleeping bag on the floor
>spend weekends inside with the lights and AC off, moving as little as possible to conserve energy
>spend 75% of income (from part time minimum wage job) on rent and utilities

Story time

>Be college kid
>Bored loner, average grades
>Not much of a future
>Almost die on drug overdose
>Drop out
>Sink into depression
>At my lowest point have an epiphany
>I was headed nowhere but to misery anyways, >Fuck a 9 to 5
>Bootstraps time
>Start writing, and pushing the limits of my creativity
>Spend two grueling years getting fucked by other people in my work because they're cunts
>Say to hell with this too
>Decide to destroy them all commercially
>Take my foes down one by one by deliberately undercutting their sales in various formats
>Now making 5K a month
>Repaying my student loans quickly
>Planning to buy land for myself
>Income still rising
>Work hard but have no boss to rant at me and no schedule
>Extremely gratifying

I made it, so can you, just try.

My family used to be poor, but my parents became rich doing business and they have net worth over 100 million usd now. Life is pretty good

>Asheville

You're pretty close actually.

Just become a sysadmin, I was offered jobs starting at $200k

My wife makes more than me right now because I'm working minimum wage(15 an hour) while getting my masters. I also get a housing stipend from the GI bill. We live pretty frugally and most of her paycheck goes towards retirement/savings/investments. It sucks right now, but it'll pay off eventually. We expect to be making around 250k a year once we're both in our fields and experienced.

>nearest unemployment agency
This. You can apply for the WIOA grant which will give you 10k to get certified for a job.

There is a huge swath of people in this country who like to pretend they have money when they actually don't.

They're the ones you see buying shit they can't actually afford so they can pretend that they're well off as they drown in debt.

This phenomenon is pervasive in suburban areas, especially in California.

My beer and cig habit takes about $150 a month.
doesnt seem like much but thats 10% of my income. rent is 700 and its the cheapest place outside of nigville. Car ins is about 250 because niggers and mexicans but I should be the one paying for them. The rest goes to either the government for a "Legal snafu" from almost a decade ago with my sign on bonus form going into the navy.

long story short, if not for bad luck, I would have no luck at all.

.."Middle Class Role Playing as Poor"?

I mean, not to be pedantic, but you'll find most people living in the US aren't in any stretch of the imagination "middle class". Otherwise you wouldn't have so many people voting the way they did this election. And we definitely wouldn't be seeing the polarization of politics the way we know it now with the publics increasing subscription to the ideologies of the Far Left and the Far Right

As far as I'm concerned, if you're living paycheck to paycheck, unable to afford healthcare, and not having enough money to cover an emergency that costs over $2,000, you're not middle class.

Obviously we're not eating ants in the wilderness or foraging for berries, and living under corrugated steel houses like they do in some third world countries, but if you think living inside a Public Storage space or a trailer park is and your only activity for leisure is sitting rotting away watching television or browsing the internet because you can't afford anything else is the good life, you're delusional and a bunch of people would disagree with you

>became rich doing business

>minimum wage(15 an hour)
reee move away from cali shithole and be productive

>Flag
I guessno answer needed

>My beer and cig habit takes about $150 a month.
Stopped reading there.

If you cannot take control of this, you really deserve to have a shit life.

Hey. Stop fuckin whining. You're middle class, read

I make 51k a year as a dev. I get roughly $4000 a month before taxes. It's shit for money.

I'm renting a room right now. I don't think I can afford my own apartment considering they're around $1000 a month here.

It sucks ass. I'm going to work here for a while and then try and find a job somewhere else for more money.

I'd like to buy a truck but I'm thinking of moving to Europe, so maybe it's not such a great investment.

Seattle. I hate this leftist shithole, but if they want to pay me 15 an hour to do a monkey's job of stocking shelves I'm not gonna complain too much.

58k in student loan debt.
Engineering degree
Living in my mom's basement (in a rich canadian neighbourhood).

Why? So I can bust my ass doing some job I hate to pay for things I don't really need?

You guys are slaves to capitalism. I can just throw everything I own into my trunk and go wherever I want whenever I want and still have a good time meeting new people. Normies creep me out, you're like fucking robots.

23
never had a job
leech off my dad who only makes 15/hr part time (20 hours a week)
might be moving out of this 3 bedroom house soon, we moved 6 times since 2012
all i own in this world is an 80s two seater car, this computer and a shitty mattress
no insurance on anything, health, driver's, etc.
no savings plan of any kind all my life
of course i drink tap water, i can't afford bottled or filters
most days only eat cheap yakisoba, some days meats and veggies or order a pizza if i'm lucky (like once every two months or so)
i make a little extra cash on the side selling psychedelic drugs

i'm reading all you guys here posting like "i make 20/hr and im so poor" and im just thinking like, goddamn you people are practically billionaires to me

I don't understand you people....you guys sound pretty well off.

I get $12.50/hr, work as much weekly as possible. usually around 40-50 hours. rent is $700/month. maybe $150/month on food. the rest just gets left alone til I gotta buy something. dont own a car, bike to work. sure things could be better but I'm content. I have never had "extra" and am accustomed to living like this. 23 y/o

I think all the people my age who bitch about how rough life is grew up spoiled as fuck

It doesnt really matter, im going to kill myself anyway.

What the fuck is wrong with you that you are incapable of supporting yourself

You're not a man

This is what i was thinking
How are you shitheads making money and fucking blowing it all.
America is cheap as hell. Come here if you think the cost of living is too hard for you.

>Why?
So you can live a decent life?

You're going to be a fucking nobody when you're 30-35, literally nobody will want to associate with you except heroin addicts. When you're 55 your body will start going to shit and you'll limp around the streets in a daze wondering why you did this to yourself.

250 a month for car insurance? What are you 19 and driving a death trap with a V8 because attracting parasites and the bi-yearly compliment is worth it?

Sooner the better; stop being a drain on society.

35k a year not including OT, 75k depth, just paid off 10k in credit card debt (long story...). Have 50k in savings. Haven't paid a cent back to my student loan and it's been 4 years; hoping to keep prolonging it as long as I can.

I live in hotels (provided by my contractors), in a tent when I don't have work, or live with my family. Just gonna keep saving up money until I get married. No point in owning or renting a home if I'm never there.

wew

Wholefoods is closing stores for a reason.

Anyone who is dirt poor should really consider enlisting if they can. Paycheck, food, room, job training, college money. You'll never be shot at either.

How the fuck does your dad take care of you working part time at $15/hr ?

Jesus man go down to a temp agency and get a job

Enjoy your much browner future.
I hope you get to be a house nigger.

I'm not poor, but I still shop at Aldi because I am honourarily jewish when it comes to money

I'm an unemployed mooch living with my family and doing odd jobs around the house.

But I do have $80,000 in stock.

I need to figure out a decent career to get in. I'm a college dropout who majored in Poli Sci and Philosophy (yes, I know I should have gone into STEM or Engineering or what not) and I'm trying to decide between going back to college and subjecting myself to the liberal agenda yet again or saying fuck it and just learning a trade at a community college.

Sure I'll reply, because things are finally looking up.

>Got promotoed and a raise, only after I fucking manned up, and found a competing offer.
>65k before OT, more likely 80k actual pay.
>Still poor as fuck, unemployed and underemployed for 2 years.
>Better off than most other college dropouts.
>Car broke down, buying a cheap used motorcycle.
>Still paying off old debts, but have lots of toys.
>Mediocre lifestyle, renting, some savings, lots of toys, should be better off.

Definition of millenial middle class IMO

Im a 32 year old single male in SC with no tickets or accidents driving a 15 year old Saab.

I'm rich by my countries standards and upper middle class in the U.K. All family though I am a student. Sad thing is we lost ~80% in 2008

Unless you wanna get an advanced degree in your field just learn a trade.

>poli sci and philosophy

Dude you could do something useful with your life/make globs of money if you go graduate school and get a masters or doctorate in something decent

They're not. A lot of people here share a room or house with roomates, friends, or family. It only takes one emergency or one fight to throw them into the streets. If you live with parents, you already lost the game. If at any point your job situation is precarious (which btw, it always is, because most of the USA has "Right to Work" statutes) you already lost. If you picked the wrong degree, or you picked the right degree and found out after all that time and investment that the market for your skill just isn't there, or you settle for less, you already lost.

no ones pissing on you, you're more or less on the same sinking ship

Stop going out to eat, stop looking for shit to do in the city or thats gunna cost money, that at the end of the night will leave you empty handed. Get a fucking hobby, not some fag hobby like drones, but a grown man hobby. And for fucks sake find a girl that works in the medical industry and will touch your penis. Get a place with her and buckle up for a nice normal life. Im 30 and was living with my parents 3 years ago, wish i would have cut the nonsense out a long time ago and stopped fucking every cute thing that would bite, and just found a good woman. Im much happier now and even though we arent rich we are doing just fine.

How the fuck man? I was 21 driving a back yard butcher jaguar with a shortblock 350 shoehorned into it and I think I was paying 90 a month.

t. mid-30's fag

>26
>live at home still
>Work two retail/CS part-time jobs.
>still get my 40 hours/week between them
>Only making around $250/week
>Have some savings in stocks with dividends
>Do not own a car, borrow one
>Training for certifications in SAP and CompTIA Security+
>Hoping to get government/contracting job doing mindless desk work
>Used to dream of having an apartment, but realized renting is a scam.
>Now want to get small house/trailer/abode and rent-to-own

Hopefully things will become better with time. I like to make myself feel better about it by comparing the current year to the last to see my improvements.

Making 25 k a year and living comfortably in an apartment with a couple. I don't have a car but I'm paying off my student loans. I technically only make 11.50 an hour but over time racks up pretty quickly.

I'm honestly not sure how people have such a hard time if they make at least 20k a year. The only reason I waited until I was in my twenties to move out was that I was convinced it was going to be way harder.

I'm a pretty hardcore nationalist. Fairly racist to boot but I try to differentiate between that and my political views.

Learn to work on your own shit. Be a man.

I'm borderline poor due to two things, my own choices, and being in a niche that does not allow me to work a better job for now. There are no jobs here anyway even if I didn't have certain conditions thrust on me.

Cool, My aunt lives in Lake Lure. You have an Aldi there now?

>Dude you could do something useful with your life/make globs of money if you go graduate school and get a masters or doctorate in something decent

I suppose; but honestly I'd kill myself if I had to live in the city, that was a big part of why I flunked out at UNC Chapel Hill. I live in the mountains of western NC and nature is the only thing that keeps me going. At this point I really just want to have a small farm out in the woods and have as little to do with our disgusting society as possible.

>wake up at 6 a.m.
>do repetitive task 8-10 hours a day 5+ days a week
>pay thousands of dollars to stare at an idiot box before going to sleep and repeating the cycle
That doesn't sound like a decent life to me.

And for the record, people like me. I'm fun and have interesting stories because I have a lot of cool stories and a real personality.

>Whole Foods
>tfw Whole Foods in store pizza stand makes the best pizzas in town.

>be me
>try to go to college
>FAFSA fucks me until age 25
>can't get a penny
>go out of state to work
>come back at 26
>school now charges me 3x tuition
>have saved money
>take classes out-of-state in the interest of time
>1 year goes by
>present my in-state drivers license, tax return, car registration, and 12 months of two different bank statements
>university keeps asking me for more documentation
>refuses to give me in-state tuition

I seriously fucking hate college. Fuck colleges and the entire academic scam. The ripped me off at least 12k and now are refusing to give me in-state tuition so I can't finish my degree. Fucking pieces of shit. I can't even tell you how fucking long I worked for that money.

Nah, up in Hendersonville. We have an Ingles on the lake; but its worth the drive to load up on fresh fruit and veggies.

Make 13.50 an hour working a shit job that I hate.
Work 24 hours a week while taking 15 units at university.

Married, live in a nice apartment because of the scholarship I get.

Hate life, and want to quit. I essentially wake up, go to school, go to work, come home do homework and go to bed.

I'm poor, but live within my means and currently have around 13k in the bank. I could quit and coast until august when my next scholarship payment goes through but I have a strong work ethic and will work myself into a deep dark depression before I quit.

Great plan indeed

*experiences

No, thinking of yourself as "poor" is an attitude that does you no favors. Feeling sorry for yourself is never beneficial, as comfortable as it may be in the short term

You'd be surprised how some people who make 25/hr end up broke just going out and getting wasted.

How many people pay $50 for breakfast and to "live a little".

My former landlord was working as a mechanic in Calgary during the oil boom. First thing he did was buy a house, then it went downhill from there. Started supporting a single mother and her two kids. Bought a hummer. Started buying luxuries like gold rings.

This happened a lot in Calgary during the oil boom.

There was even a story of a doctor asking his patients to donate to his retirement funds.

My mom buys a lot of shit she doesn't need. Who the fuck needs over 50 different plates in a household? 20+ pairs of shoes.

To be rich you have to make lots of money AND save it.

Do you have ALDI in the USA? .

It really is. He may be corny on the radio but he will save your ass financially.

i'm not gonna make excuses, i am generally a lazy, apathetic, anti-social shit stain on humanity, but i have panic attacks just talking to people over the phone for jobs. been trying to improve this though

he just pays the utility bills and the rent and stuff, i usually take care of the smaller shit like internet bill

i tried the temp agency shit, did various warehouse work for a bit but i usually end up getting fired like first couple days

Sorry, but I only get to live once. I'm not really down about that austerity lifestyle. It's not something I do out of morality. I only live this way because I have to. If I want to splurge I do it because I want to temporarily get away from the monotony of the shit pay and financial situation.

Dropped out of high school, got my ged. Landed a job with ford doing assembly. 11yrs in im making $31/hr awesome benefits, insurance, bonuses, etc...have a nice build up with my 401k, ira and a thespe account ontop of the pension. All at almost 32yrs old. Not bad i would say. Also married with 2 kids, white suburbia house and all that. I do better than all but 2 of my friends who went to college and even then theyre barely making more after racking up years of student loans where i have 0 debt.

I live off rice and beans every day but i am in doing 2 engineering degrees for free and i am working part time.
I am surviving so i am ok

^^ Listen to this guy. Stop being fascinated by idiots who live paycheck to paycheck wasting money at the mall on clothes and a lease on a BMW. They do this to impress people and makes plebs think they have money. See these people for what they are, idiots who cannot be trusted with money.

OP, stop eating lunches an dinners out, even if it's only once a week. Save every dollar you can. That fancy (or even Chipotle) is going to be in the municipal sewer in 12 hours, it's a waste.

Work hard, harder than everyone around you. If they were 8 hours you should work 10. If they show up to work at 8 you should be there at 7:30. That's how you get ahead. It won't happen soon but when there's a break you'll be there first. If there's something to be learned and you aren't worth being paid to learn it...you need to show up for free and sweep the floor or something while you can learn it. And when someone smarter or more experienced than you says something, FUCKING LISTEN! Even if you don't like what he has to say.

Don't have kids unless you can afford them. And if you do have kids marry the mother and stay together until the children are 18. NO EXCEPTIONS.

Save every penny you can because when it rains it pours.

Today I have about 200K in my checking account and a paid off house. That was my key to success and I hope it helps you as much as these simple lessons helped me.