What the smallest amount of money you could live on for a month? Assume you're not living with your parents

What the smallest amount of money you could live on for a month? Assume you're not living with your parents.

Probably like $5 or $10

>$1,120.00

for booze smokes and food.

30 dollars

to keep my apartment and bills paid id need about 1500. Id need another 10$/ day for liquor and a metro card to get to work.

what tdo you faggots live in some shit hole country where people only make 40 cents a day.

9001 cents

0$
Get on my level cityfags

With rent, car payment, and shit? About $700.

With just food and car payment? About $200.

With just food? About $30.

None. It's quite fun to stay at the YMCA.

$30 for a fucking month.

Yeah, you sure know how to budget jackass.

Maybe, if you're a FAG.

300

3 frozen meals a day, nigga. Just because you have to live cheap doesn't mean you have to starve.

>$2500
I live in silicon valley :/

$0. Done so many times. I have a freezer full of deer, moose and boar. A shit ton of potatoes and such stored away.
I live in northern Sweden and in the winters I get snowed in sometimes and can't spend any money.
Just bunker up on firewood and I'll be fine even if the power goes out.

0

supermarket free samples, soup kitchen, dumpster diving, water is free from fountains and tap water in bathrooms

LITERALLY better than being a wagecuck

>I have a freezer full of deer, moose and boar.
Is your electric from solar?

You're going to spent one dollar a day for food? Are you thins fucking stupid? You could make it mabey 4 days with 30$ at max.

There's just too many variables, it all depends on your bills.

Just add your rent, electric, and any luxury bills (like cable and Internet) together and add like $100-$200 for food, gas, and any household expenses like TP.

Northern swede-fag here, yeah we hunt our own meat and grow our own potatoes, but damn I can't live on $0

I don't know where the fuck you shop. But a frozen meal is not 33 cents.

No I have a back-up generator out back if needed.
Enough gas to run it for about a week. Usually enough.
And if it happens in winter I can just store the meat outside. Our normal winter temp is about -30 Celsius.

I only make $3100/month and I seem to do okay.

>rent and utils 1700
>phone 100
>student loan 650
>groceries 0 to 400 (depends on how much I eat at work dropbox food is awesome so prolly 0)

This is truly barebones too... I usually spend another 1k on my self and 2k savings.

How the fuck do people truly live on 0?

I make $9,200/month before taxes and live off of $800 a month and put every other penny in mutual funds (live in old conversion van).

$4200, I live in San Francisco

If you're a tub of lard, yea.

A tub of oats is like, $2. Mix it with water and it's still nasty shit, but you'll live. one tub will feed you for like, one meal every day of the week, and is rather filling. It's got carbs, some calories, and protein in it so it'll sustain you. Eat some meat every now and then with some fruit and you're good.

> Only $3100

Well making $37k a year I'd hope you'd be able to survive you fgt.

>before taxes
kek

I've done it.

Rent was $400 (Boston area, so no easy task). drove, parked in a neighborhood with no time limit, then rode a bike to work.

Had a bank account that took a percentage of every dollar I spent and put it in savings.

When I shopped for food, I would hit 3 different stores where I could get good food as cheap as possible: Trader Joe's for small meals I could eat at work for only $3.00 and bags of frozen chicken, black beans for only $.99, bags of veg for only $1.99. Whole grain rice from regular markets as well as different veg, and a few things from Whole Foods that were cheaper than others (like curry paste). I would spend maybe $40/wk on food.

Now, that's not super cheap I know. Rent was $400/mo, food was $160/mo, and gas was $60/mo. But I was able to eat healthily and put away money so that I could save $5000 and start an account that let me start day trading in currency, then stock. Now? I work maybe 5 days out of the month just doing a bit of day trading. I make roughly $90k/yr and live comfortably. I live in a different area, own my own small house and my mortgage is $1100/mo but I pay more and will be completely debt free in 10 years.

It's not always easy. Right now though, I'm rolling in cash. I was one of the few who expected Brexit to go the way it did and made a killing betting against the Brit pound, so I won't have to work for another 6 months.

1500 rent and food

It's not difficult.

>No student loans.
>Utilities never go over $100.
>$35, cancel anytime, month-to-month phone bill.
>Groceries are about $40/week.

All in all, I spend about $500/month to live an okay life. To get zero, you need to have a free place to live, like a car, and have your own source of food.

That is after taxes..

You are an idiot haha

$750 probably
where 100 is for public transport
150 is for gas power internet water etc
150 is to eat
and 350 goes to extra stuff like drugs and I dont know stuff?

I get 300 every month from the state
It's only a matter of time until I run out of savings [2000?]
And the debts I keep ignoring are getting bigger [3000+?]

help

I used to, but we opened an office in mountain view and I fn love it here. Plus I was always driving to sandhill 3 to 4 times a week and 101 is a bitch.. Let alone driving in the city.

Also, not seeing homeless people every 10 seconds is kind of nice.

After taxes, life insurance, full medical, dental and vision, and 401 K

Live above Kiruna, last winter it got down to -44 Celsius. Almost never buy any food.
Eat mostly what I grow and hunt/fish.
Have only electrical and phone/internet bill.
My house is pretty small buy warm.
Don't need much else.
Did not go into town for 4 months once.
No problems.

I dont know how you live up here, but is there any chance of foreigners moving and integrating into this kind of life style?
Or is ti more like a closed kind of culture?

Legit question

>only

where all the country people at?

just live in the fucking woods and hunt for food

3100 is actually low, I make 3 times that and I'm still not where I want to be.

500krouns

i make half that and i have no idea what to do, what do you do user? i'll just steal your job ideas

>homeless people
Holy shit has it exploaded over the past year or so..... So many fucking homeless begging fucks in SF.. One straight up asked me for $100 the other day lol

Thank god my startup is moving to oakland... I hope its better

Not the guy but when I go shopping for groceries for a week I sometimes only spend $20. The most expensive items I spend money on are meat first and soda second. I can cut the soda out completely if wanted to and lower the meat cost through cheaper cuts and bulk buying, which I do to get hamburger cuz fucking $6.00 for a pound of 85% hamburger is crap when I can buy a chuck roast (which is similar to 85%) and grind it up for $3-4 a pound at home.

Kk so to do the math, $500 for rent, $60 for utilities, $60 for internet(I need some form of entertainment otherwise I'd go crazy) $80 for food, and another $40 for fuel expenses (I live very close to my jobsite so I don't spend much money on gas.) That brings me to $740 a month. Course, most people forget about upkeep stuff including hygiene and cleaning supplies as well as vehicle stuff (Learn to fix your own vehicle, it's waaaaay cheaper) I'd tact on another $20 a month, but that's a little different. I don't need new oil, oil filter, laundry soap, toothpaste, deoderant, etc etc every month.

So in total $760.

Other ways to lower your grocery budget, learn how to bake your own sandwich bread. Seriously really goes a long way. A 10 lb bag of flour is $2.50-3.50 That's 10 loaves of bread. A small jar of yeast can last for months and retails about $4. Milk, though good, isn't 100% needed and I only buy it for cooking these days, all my calcium comes in through my meat intake.

Well, $1100 usd for my apartment/3 people is about 370, about 100 for water, gas and electric. Multivitamins for a month is approx 10-15 bucks. 25 cents per top ramen x 3 meals a day, and about 10 pounds worth of bananas and 10 heads of lettuce, work 5 days a week in the next town over so that's about $75 in gas weekly and I need to wipe my ass and brush my teeth, which we can call 2$25 a month of misc costs.
So like $ 650-700 a month depending on electricity usage, food, and so forth. This isn't counting smokes, beer, fast food, candy, driving around because I'm bored, car maintenance etc. I live in northern calofornia

not the person you are replying to but yea i guess you can integrate into the lifestyle. just depends on if you're willing to learn. i hunt for a lot of my own meat. my dad taught me when i was just a wee lad

pay rent, save, buy things, travel.

I'm a network security manager for a fortune 50

What fucking kind of student loan do you have that costs you $650 a month? Fuck man I owe $12,000 and I only have to pay $50 a month. I pay much more than that but at a minimum its $50.

>ammo is free.

Fucking delusional cuck

1600, 500 rent ,1100 food

Lives a german dude about 15 km from my house I hunt with sometimes and some other non.natives around here. No problems.
This is a small community ( closest town has about 50 people in it) and most people live spread out in the forests. Everyone pretty much knows each other, even new people becomes part of it pretty fast. Or they move again.
It's a simple life.

he gets fucking snowed in. he puts deer moose boar in snowed in. no need from solar when snow

This would also mean giving up my precious Pepsi max and air conditioning

$12,000 where did you get your degree? I'm about 50k in the hole... Shit my co-worker who went to stanford is 120k..

Hoping this startup takes off so my equity gets me 8 figs and I don't have to worry about fucking debt anymore.

So sibiria, literally?

Fuck off, you lying piece of cuck shit.

I already have ammo fucknuckle. Buy like twice a year..
By your logic I can't use anything I already own?
No clothes or anything?

this is the way life is supposed to be lived

Minus ∞.
Pic related.

Fuck man I make $2000 a month and I have plenty of cash. You must just blow everything on a shit ton of alcohol, cigarettes and drugs. Unless I have kids anything more than $3000 a month is crazy rich.

>$400 house payment
>~$150 utilities
>~$100 food
This is assuming I'm not working(which I do) so I don't have to drive anywhere and 30 day month, faggot.

I'd really enjoy moving there

Siberia? No I live above a Swedish town called Kurravaara, in Swedish Lapland.
Our coldest day back in the 79's or something was -49C.

help how can I survive better and achieve happiness

you'll be eating shit like beans, rice, hot dogs, and ramen but it's doable

Tits or GTFO. I love you, Sweden.

after taxes it's like 6kish?

2 for mortgage

1 for food (I eat out a lot, currently tinder fucking after breakup.. ex g/f made 140k a year btw at google.)

2 in savings (stocks and shit)

1 in travel fund

Plan on making 350k by 2018 when I get my VP status I'm also 30 btw

> 8 figures from my "start-up"
>$50k worth of debt for a piece of paper

Trust fund baby detected.

God I fucking despise people like you. Born into money and you have any option for career choice in the world. You're the kind of person who opens a fucking cupcake boutique for a quarter of a million dollars, has it fail and then gets bailed out by daddy's money.

Pic related: Its what actually having to work to put food on the table looks loke

0.30€ per day = 9€/month if I'd sleep under the bridge

My total rent + monthly bills (including all necessary utilities, netflix, health insurance, hulu, spotify, gym membership) comes to around $500 a month. (My parents pay my car payment, auto insurance, and cell phone bill even though I'm nearly 30 years old)
I also have a 25 mile commute to and from work each day, which means I need to fill up my car once a week. That's at least another $25 per week, or $100 budget for gas each month.
I would need to allocate at least another $200 to doing stuff such as going out on dates/ getting food with my girlfriend.
And then there is of course food for myself. If I am very strict about meal planning and preparing things ahead of time, I can feed just myself on about $40 a week eating poverty style meals with whatever ingredients are on sale. So that's another $160 for the month.
An hell, let's throw in another $40 for 2 750ml bottles of halfway decent whiskey because with my shit job, getting drunk is the only way I'm going to survive week to week. 2 bottles should last me a month, or at least a couple weeks.

So just the basics to survive, I'm looking at $1,000 per month.

Luckily with my current job, I pull in about $1,600 per month after taxes, though instead of saving anything I usually end up eating too much fast food and getting more expensive meals/ alcohol when I go out with my girlfriend, or I spend that extra cash on video games or other trivialities I really can't afford like pic related, a fucking smart watch, just because "I can".

Whatever, fuck life anyways and fuck you for reading this.

I worked for 3 years and lived at my dad's to save for college, $12,000 in loans only because I ran into some vehicle and medical troubles. Otherwise I wouldn't have needed to get the loans. Actually I still have $7k in loans left over (I had to get the whole thing and they wouldn't give it out partially) but I"m waiting to make sure my job is 100% stable before I pay it all off, that's why I'm paying $1000 a month to the loans. I went to a community college because I hate universities. Not that they're hard, but just because of all the excess credits you have to take. Hell my technical degree has given me more experience than 90% of the computer science majors and most of them hate their jobs after a few years. In 6 years I can be making $50k-$75k depending on if I can get a department head job or not.

The job's really just there to keep my feet on the ground while my real estate gather value.

>Trust fund baby
Oh fuck I wish I was. Sadly I paid for everything I own, and VC's / angels are trying to fuck me over sideways for investments / equity shares.

Why the fuck would I be 50k in debt if I had a rich fucking dad? Although your logic mixed with the pictures makes sense.

I'm just good at programming, which I taught myself in middle school before schools even taught it.. My dad was a pe teacher for a jr college

£400 not inc rent and bills and debts and other shit adult stuff

$3200

Mortgage + utility bills. I get free food at work. Would have to quit gym.

Although if I were only making $3k/month I'd not have my job, so I'd need another $100-$200/month for food.

>God I fucking despise people like you. Born into money and you have any option for career choice in the world
>50k in debt for a piece of paper

I don't think you're a very smart man user. Do you think that's why you're working in a bathroom? Trustfund kids don't do debt

Around 700 euros i guess. Rent alone is 400, then you have gas/electricity+food+internet & phone+bank fee.

Rent is 400, health insurance is 80 and food would be like 80 too. P good if you ask me, not too expensive, not too cheap

>Although it began as a luxury food, instant ramen has taken quite a turn since then. With the average packet costing a consumer only 13 cents, you could eat three square meals a day for an entire year for just $142.65. To put that into perspective, an average American spends $6,372 a year on food — eating ramen would reduce that to about 3 percent of the average cost. Due to its affordability, ramen is often called “gakusei ryori,” or “student food,” in Japan, and start-ups earning just enough for the founders to survive are known to be “ramen profitable.”

Nigga who needs any other kinda of food? Ramen comes in all kinds of flavors, you can prepare it all sorts of ways, and that shits everywhere. Its like potatoes, but you dont have to farm. If I stole a purse or 2 I could eat for a year, shits crazy.

so you cant live on that.

you missed the whole point of the thread.

Well I am a fucking retard, I can't count the rest of it this late at night, the 400 is just pot and food.

I would assume you have $50,00 of debt because you have a monthly loan payment.

And if you really did pay your way through school and got to where you are through your own blood, sweat and tears then I do admire you.

But based on you saying your friend went to Stanford I would assume that you live in California as well.

People here are so fucking detached from reality that it makes my head spin.

I have a friend whose parents make $140,000 a year and still calls himself poor. So excuse me for jumping to conclusions.

for rent, food, and gas id say 1,500

>working in a bathroom
Or maybe I had to pee?

Now who isn't so smart;-)

To elaborate, I live in California and people who took out a fifty thousand dollar loan and make their payment every month without having to worry still say that they're "in debt" regardless of the fact that they aren't even paying off the loan and they're parents are literally in the top 1% of wealth on planet earth.

Yep I live in cali and my co-worker is mexican and comes from a low income family in manteca.. He's really fucking smart though and still had to go into 120k debt, even with all A's. We both work hard as fuck and sometimes don't sleep for a few days. I get contractors work through my platform and it pays higher than livable wages.

They're parents

Sorry I'm kinda drunk: P

Maybe I'm not a smart man after all.

Truth be told I love you all though. You're all magnificent bastards and you have my blessings and support.

>requiring housing and warmth for living
fuck off ye cunt build yer own mini house and scavenge for whatever you need like I did a while back. Look for people giving shit away, focus on building materials like cardboard/wood, or comfort item like blankets and pillows (make sure to wash that shit m8) and the just get the cheapest food you can find.

i know.... exactly how much.
$ 365.

when i lost my job, my landlord let me pay half my rent by being his handyman for the 5 buildings he owns.

that was $300 ( remainder of rent)

power bill was $45


the rest went to rice, beans, caned fruit and veg.

Yeah, I've given change and they've had the nerve to ask if I have anything else. I've been carrying lunch home from a deli of cafe and they'll ask for it. Very ballsy here in SF.

Gotta love it hear right?
You can get a free fucking abortion funded through tax money but if you don't want to break your back 10+ hours a day/ five days a week to have top ramen and water then your ass better be at less $25k in debt for a meaningless degree

Real talk tho bluhd

Best of luck to you,

May I ask about your start up company?

Please tell me its not a food truck that charges $9 for a grilled cheese.

by getting rid of your damn problems?

if you mean in current living situation my basic expenditures:

$795/m rent
$160/m health insurance
$160/m car insurance
$15 renters insurance
$220 electricity (live in south carolina, it was 105 today, electricity is expensive in the summer)
$180 internet/cable
$45/m gas
$30 water/sewer
$300 food

so the total is $1905
thats about it that I "need" to get by

but if you mean "how much to survive"

probably not much, maybe about $200

Check my trips and horrible spelling.

Again, bear with me I've had a few too many. Hope I'm not shitting up an otherwise nice thread

rent: $1k
utilities: $200
gas: $150
food: $150
internet: $60
non-work phone (that i can look at porn on): $75
+ incedentals? $2k after taxes