How to survive on the minimum wage

easy!

Housing: Cheap studio apartment for less than 500 a month, or roomates

Phone: any pre-paid plan and a cheap smartphone

entertainment: you can buy 20" tv's for less than 200 bucks (save up) Netflix is 10 bucks a month, and there's a new service that has live cable tv channels for less than 40 bucks a month, internet service is 30 bucks a month

food: fresh food, farmers markets, learn to cook every single meal with fresh ingredients, grow your own food if able

clothing: thrift store
washing clothing: laundromats

utilities: apartment contracts usually bundle it in

Transportation: Uber or taxi service, never use the public bus as it's not safe

transportation: used fixie. yeah, they're currently out of style, but the utility, cost, and durability are hard to argue with. just don't buy into the no-brakes meme.

If I can survive on 0$ a month everyone can survive on 8$/hr

Why do only lazy nigs and white betas with womens studies degrees complain about 8$/hr?

9×40= 360
-10-20%= 300 (this I will give)
300-

>food: fresh food, farmers markets, learn to cook every single meal with fresh ingredients, grow your own food if able

also pad that shit out with rice and noodles, it's the cheapest calories you can find

>le women studies meme

Can we stop with this bullshit please. Your education does not matter. Everything comes down to how luck you are.

>this is what loser NEETs actually believe

Literally who?

you arent MEANT to survive on that shit because that shit is for T E E N A G E R S

GET A J O B

>how to survive on minimum wage
>modify everything in your life to be more communistic

I shortened your list for you OP.

Shh. Let them happily accept less so that the banks can have more..

if you're serious and over age 18, fucking kill yourself you dumb ugly nigger

>40 hours

ha. HAHAHAHA

>try it
>Write a book about it
>See if your outlook changes

>Have a job.
>JUST GET A JOB.

>we can't survive

and yet they're alive. how?

>Who works at McFucks 9-5 Monday-friday.....

meant for teenagers is a way to fuck over poor people and make it seem like thier fualt

Anyone who would hire a person with a gender/women studies degree has no brain and deserves death.

5$ is the whole day earning of daily wage workers here . they aren't complaining. If you want good job become eligible for it.

>: Cheap studio apartment for less than 500 a month,
>$500 a month

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Try finding an apartment for $500 a month around the nation's capital!

>cant survive but can somehow afford a fancy phone

Because starbucks isn't cheap.

WHAT THE HELL? Since when do niggers want jobs??? On the other hand I don't have a problem with them staying the hell out of my place of business and employment because EVERY GODDAMN time I am FORCED by Uncle Scam to hire another nigger it's ALWAYS a problem. Constantly late, if they even show up at all, start fights and run off customers, they never take anything seriously, they complain non-stop about being asking to do the most minute task a child could do. I dunno just how many times they've ran off with the cash register money. Yes insurance pays it all back and they go to jail but that's not the point. Sad that there are plenty of decent, honest whites and even asians that NEED the money and are willing to work but I have to avoid hiring them because of America's fantasy, fairy tale nigger obsession. I think they should at the very least make ONLY nigger employers hire them.....however few they may be.

>i need to live in the middle of NYC but i can't do it on the minimum wage
>give me free shit

>Pre-paid plan
>Cheaper
I looked into it and if i got the more expensive monthly at 55 dollars a month i'd save about 400 dollars total on the cost of the 2 year contract w. phone. So if you're a poorfag who can't afford a contract or have no credit you're actually spending more money over time using a pay-as-you-go

>Netflix
Just pirate movies or get them from the library

>fresh food, farmers market
Dirty bulk 4 life on cheap shit

>thrift store/laundromats
H&M and forever 21 sell cheap clothes that's actually in the modern fashion. If you want burner clothes I'd just but them there, brand new for a cheap price. I always find local thrift stores will sell old, used, brand name clothing for a higher price than new fast fashion clothes. Maybe for a suit or a one-off vintage cop I would go thrift store, unless you want to go full mac demarco

I think it would be better to get a washer and wash your clothes at home using the gentle cycle and then using a drying rack. Your clothes will last longer with better maintenance.

So lets say 40hours/week= 1320.-
30% tax: 1016.-
-500 apt : 516.-
-30internet+30tv: 456.-
-300 Food: 156.-
156.- per month to cover for clothes, savings, reparation, etc.

You gotta be shitting me...

Maybe live somewhere else? DC Metro area is a hellhole with a tremendous indigenous negro problem and the surrounding areas are some of the highest cost of living areas in the nation.

If you have no prospects, no money, and therefore no stuff, move elsewhere.

A slight increase in the minimum wage would be alright
I wonder how Sup Forumsfags would feel if they were working in these jobs

> (OP)
>9×40= 360
>-10-20%= 300 (this I will give)
>300-

You only work 40 hour a month?
I am of being trolled?

Anyone earning minimum wage in the US will pay effectively zero income tax. If they have dependents it is likely they will get more back than they pay in because of earned income credit.

Remove the "wrong race and gender" and it would be perfect

> Everything comes down to how luck you are.

Equality is the crutch of the mediocre,keep fapping and living off your parents you lazy fat fuck

You can probaly find a room to rent in an old persons house for $500 in some small midwest town

>Cheap studio apartment for less than 500 a month, or roomates
Studios are hard to come by, more expensive than that, and low rent property comes with high crime, even in good neighborhoods

Roommates are not dependable, and can cause serious financial issues or affect your space and sleep thus affecting ability to function at work

>you can buy 20" tv's for less than 200 bucks (save up) Netflix is 10 bucks a month, and there's a new service that has live cable tv channels for less than 40 bucks a month, internet service is 30 bucks a month

This is good. YouTube has options. There are also smart phone plans that run at about $50 a month with unlimited everything, so if a person wants to go even cheaper a good smart phone and unlimited data means watching a lot of great videos on phone, TV optional. Libraries also have a plethora of great options from movies and music to comic books, manga, and books.

>fresh food, farmers markets, learn to cook every single meal with fresh ingredients, grow your own food if able
Nope. Fresh food is cost ineffective thanks to the organic movement driving the price of produce up. Two pounds of skittles costs more than two apples, and most proteins are very expensive.

I recommend chicken drumsticks, two per meal, at about 1.70lb you can find cheap ones at most stores for about $5-7 per pack of 18, that's two drums per meal for nine meals. It adds up fast. Potatoes are fairly cheap, but you don't get a lot. Bagged veggie blends aren't super cheap, but a good option for those as well. Vitamins to supplement most of the malnutrition, not ideal, but it will blunt the heart damaged cause by high sodium content in most inexpensive food.

On that budget you CAN NOT get three meals a day, Ramen doesn't count.

Woah

Because they're the only ones stupid enough to not have ancestors that already amassed wealth

Which is why there's a wage-gap.

ALright then we are back at 460.- left over per month for clothing, healthcare, insurances, gas and general activities.

Good fucking luck

>-30internet+30tv: 456.-
What

>I can't survive and have all the top brand luxury goods that I'm ENTITLED to at $8.25 an hour

Exactly. We don't all have to live in big cities.

>thrift store
Better yet, clearances and food banks/shelters. If you qualify for the latter you can get a lot of nice clothes, I've donated Abercrombie & Fitch, Levis, and Sketchers shoes before. Salvation Army is overpriced on many things, so you are better off spending a little more once or twice a year on name brands, preferably on sale like at the Hanes website. Paying more for better underwear and socks will be better in the long run.

>laundromats
Pretty much the only option

>apartment contracts usually bundle it in
Actually no. In most cases this is expressly mentioned upfront and not negotiable. They will usually not, but there are assistance programs as long as you fall into the right income level.

>Uber or taxi service, never use the public bus as it's not safe
Highly dependent on what is in the area. Some places have no bus system, and all cab companies are privately owned and very expensive. Share riding or volunteer services can help out, but walking or bicycles are more reliable.

>I wonder how Sup Forumsfags would feel if they were working in these jobs
They don't work.

>You only work 40 hour a month?
I used to get that back when I worked for Best Buy. I had to pick up a second and third job just to make ends meet.

Yes sure I'm lazy because I live in a country with 70% unemployment rate. Makes perfect sense.

The minimum wage increase would not help the poor. There would just be more unemployment.

516-60=456

U can buy a 40 in 1080p for less than 200 these days.

There's a reason he's on minimum wage...

Oh Yeah. Wasnt paying attention.

false.
The minimum wage was to separate internships from jobs. Real jobs paid you, so do some internships. Real jobs also paid well enough that you could afford nice things (as a teenager). It did not mean that your career was mcdonalds worker.

>and frankly, if you can't get up to manager in a year, you deserve your fate

Is it any good?

Read Nickled and Dimed. The helplessness really pissed me off when I read it... felt like she got the result she tried for.

I've been able to live off minimum wage in canada. The problem is that it takes years to accumulate $1000 in surplus, so paying for university or debt or a house is pretty much out of the question

Sick man. I make a k surplus a week if things go okay.

>and frankly, if you can't get up to manager in a year, you deserve your fate
You haven't worked retail in the last 4 years. Most places only hire outside for management and as soon as you get a raise or health insurance you get your hours cut.

Really pushing it to the limit though. One unexpected eventually, illness, or slight cost differential on even just one of the things you've mentioned and you're in the red.

I'm not even talking about a middle class lifestyle or savings, I'm talking about making ends meet.

this niggers get double my salary.... i have to speak with stupid white trash and niggers(in English) and earn less...they can suck a dick and die!

Do we even need tv?

Does Switzerland take whites too or only albanians?

I actually got moved in to Spokane Valley, WA a couple days ago. Min wage here is $11, yet things are still about the same price. I feel really good about being here. I came from Topeka, KS though, one of the worst tax-hellholes in the country..

>thrift shop.

I must have saved 1000 on dress shirts alone shopping at the thrift store.

Furniture is a steal there too. Some faggot paid 500 for that lazy boy love seat. Boom I got it for $50. Looks like it sat in a guest room unused.

Last time I checked umslims and germans only.
Also this surplus is probably not normal at all. I have my own business and do some illegal untaxed things beside it.

Don't know where you live but it sounds like you're clueless about how cheap housing is in the midwest.

If you search around you can rent a 3br apt or even an entire small to medium sized house for 600-700/mo where I live.

Get a 3br 2 bath with 2 roommates and living is dirt cheap, like max $300/mo including utilities for a really comfy place

For $500 you an get a really nice 1br or 2br apt

Poor people complaining about housing prices and min wage in expensive-ass areas have only their own stupidity to blame.

It's not the best life, but yeah, people can manage. The ones that complain and bitch all the time are usually lazy shits and spend money on all sorts of shit they don't need. Worked enough of those entry jobs to know these people.

Heck just don't eat out and stop buying junk food everyday and they'd save a ton.

8.25*8*5*4=1320money
1320*58=76560roubles
That's almost twice of my monthly income, and yet I survive and even go to Bali every year and shit. With cost of living not much less than most of the US cities, besides in the US you can get the same 8.25 in every village, in here you can never reach such income anywhere far from big cities.

Niggers are just lazy.

>$500 rent in Canada
Maybe if you're female and willing to live with an Indian landlord (male).

And you are paying everything by yourself?
I mean things like apt,insurance, etc.

How to survive on minimum wage; a guide for idiots
Step 1: get some ambition and find a better job
Step 2: if no jobs available get some ambition and start a business
Step 3: if neither step one or two didn't work your the problem not minimum wage

Not that this shit applies to me
>studio for less than 650
>getting stuck with the headache after roommates don't pay or bail
> paying for cable
> only thing bundled where I live is garbage pick up maybe water if you're lucky
>buses are safe in most cities
>uber to to and from any location would be half of a monthly bus pass

Man, I sure love making $19 a hour doing retail

You guys should work for the post office

Internet: mobile phone tendering/hotspot.


Its what I been doing. Then again my internet browsing consist of steam / Sup Forums. (I don't play online on steam only used to communicate)

xDD

Can I get a guide on how to survive on $7.25/hr here? Would be super useful.

Go through a temp service they'll pay you better than your mcjob.

>40 hours a month

You lazy nigger I worked in a warehouse in the summer 40 hours a week for 9 dollars an hour. Get good you fucking retard

>My antisocial, ugly, poor parents friend is an EE and makes 75k/yr
>My millionaire parent, 6'4, outgoing, handsome friend works part time in a call center for 18k/yr

It's like these fucking retards don't want to move up from their shitty jobs, anyone with a brain stem starts on $8 and immediately works hard at improving his situation, is this a nigger thing or a new phenomena among retarded kids?

See the third option

>live in parents spare house
>only pay utilities

they had the advantage of housing only costing £10k in their day, its $470k now and fucking no one can afford that

>cant afford to live
>move with the money you dont have

Stop spending money on shit you don't want for things you don't need
Stop paying for TV
Stop using smartphones
There, fixed your "problem"

Maybe i should move to Europe, I'm tired of these American fucks who think they should make $15 an hour flipping burgers and not have to pay for food, housing, healthcare or transportation. Glad to see it is mostly isolated.

Same fucks who think the gender wage gap is a valid statistic and illustrates systemic oppression.

No
McDicks is for college kids and teenagers with no experience
You do know night classes exist right?

I lived on $80/month for food (All my other income went to rent/utilities/tuition) for about a year.
>Food
Rice and beans costs ~$0.50 for a filling meal full of vitamins and everything you need
>Entertainment
Youtube, library books and Sup Forums were the only things I could afford for entertainment
>electronics
I had a PC and a flip phone with prepaid minutes, but otherwise nothing
>clothes
Thrift store, yo.
>transportation
I would ride the bus if I had to go far, or walk/ride a bike I bought for $40 on craigslist

You CAN survive on min wage, you just can't be so fucking picky and expect to be able to afford a smartphone and a new fucking car and mcdonalds every day

Friend of mine lives 3 blocks from one of the biggest colleges in my state which is host to the third largest student enrollment in the country
He pays $615 a month
Go suck a dick

>40 hours a month
No wonder you cant get a better job then minimum wage

Mine's the second largest student pop. in the country and my apartment cost 1.1k/mo it's 750sqft tho

I made $7 per hour as an apprentice, I did it with a wife who didn't work and a young son, we lived like peasants, we didn't have the latest phone, $200 jeans and nikes or netflix.
It's possible to survive on this wage, but living like a peasant should give you a nudge to improve yourself, you don't deserve $15 for doing brainless tasks.

$8.25 ? in America ?
how can you survive?
I have $10/hour in Slovenia...

As a nuclear physicist, yes.

Minimum wage increase would fuck me
I charge $50-$70 an hour, that immediately has to be changed to meet with market upticks
You Eurocucks already tried your socialism bullshit and when it failed you had to weld on capitalism in order to keep you from becoming post-Great War Germany
Stop pretending it works when I doesn't

Even cheaper:

Housing: Live with your parents/family/friends or in the woods

Phone: Use public pay phones (yes they still exist) or business phones

entertainment: Torrent everything

I only pay for my food, internet, metro, and electicity bills, etc.

I don't drink, don't party, I don't have any major expences for entertainment, but again, we're talking about surviving here.

No I have $10/hour at a normal job.

That's actually a really good price, how far from campus or is it on campus?

Fuck off Winston Smith

And, fyi, minimum wage in Russia is like 150$, which is barely enough to buy a coffin and a showel do die as expected of you.

jebote idiote. možete živjeti na posao u pekari u Bosnu.

>Housing: Cheap studio apartment for less than 500 a month, or roomates

$8.25 * 8hrs * 5days * 4weeks * 12months = $15,840. $500/month is $6,000 - so you have $9,840 to spend on electricity and phone service per year, or $840/month.

There's no money to save. You can never improve yourself. No fun, ever. You have no money left over for beer or weed or anything, and nothing will ever get any better. And you have to wast most of your time, so you sleep every hour you have at home.

You know whats even cheaper? Living in your slave masters house. Eating his trash.