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like food (grocery, restaurants, Amazon, seamless), hospital visits, dentists, acupuncture, massage, yoga therapy, anything neuro, any therapy....

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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I don't want you to get banned. I want someone to break into your house in the night, tie you down, gag you, dip a butt plug in super glue and stick it up your pooper. Should dry by the time your mom comes in to wake you up for school. Only after you've made a thread about the experience would I like for your account to be closed.

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Haircut 1-2 times a month so say 1.5 times * 30 * 12 = 540 Dentist twice a year so 125 * 2 = 250 Buy contacts twice a year so 200 * 2 = 400 Food prolly 300ish a month * 12 = 3,600 Health Insurance (covering most medicines/excluding copays/etc.) 100/month so = 1,200

I can't think of anything else that jumps out right away so yearly ~$6,000

That's a lot more than I thought but if you take away food which can fluctuate a lot then its around $2,000 - $2,500. That's not THAT bad IMO.

 
"justphresh" Haircut 1-2 times a month so say 1.5 times * 30 * 12 = 540 Dentist twice a year so 125 * 2 = 250 Buy contacts twice a year so 200 * 2 = 400 Food prolly 300ish a month * 12 = 3,600 Health Insurance (covering most medicines/excluding copays/etc.) 100/month so = 1,200

I can't think of anything else that jumps out right away so yearly ~$6,000

That's a lot more than I thought but if you take away food which can fluctuate a lot then its around $2,000 - $2,500. That's not THAT bad IMO.

300/mo in food? how is this possible?

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

Why do I get the feeling you're somehow to going to find a way to insert a pic of yourself in this thread.

Absolute truths don't exist... celebrated opinions do.
 
"kayz08" Why do I get the feeling you're somehow to going to find a way to insert a pic of yourself in this thread.

haha no not me

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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yeah right and 420 costs.... your blow habit .... everything

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 
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lol nice

"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

IDK about all you guys but a few months back, I went through several years of credit cards and built a meaningful budget.

My wife and I average $17k / year at restaurants and $7k / on groceries.

Based on how a lot of my IB/PE/HF friends go out in a similar manner to me, I'm just gonna say I feel like I'm probably on the higher end, but seriously, food takes up more money than I think this thread is saying....

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