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Wow, we're similar! It's rare that I see anyone on here in the same boat. Me: 65K Mortgage/condo fee: $1300/month Student Loan: $69/month Daycare: $750/month (used to be $1200!) Retirement: 10% plus 5% match and another $2500 to Roth IRA Car is paid off, still paying off massive credit card debt. Child starts school this year and aftercare is $200/month. Used to split daycare, but he's been laid off for months, so no child support recently. $1000 in savings and contributing $200/month. Used to be 5K a year ago. Will eventually pursue MS, but job has to pay for it. I'm 29. |
Me: $750K
DH: $120K Total $870K Mortgage $15K Second Home $2500 Child care $3,500 Retirement $3,500 Automated Savings/ Investments: $3,500 Insurance: $1K Discretionary expenses (average) $3K vacation (average) $1K Discretionary Investment (average) $10-$15K |
Me: 135K
Spouse: 90k Mortgage: 1,900 Childcare: 1,400 Retirement: max 401k College savings: 800 |
Me: 260K
Spouse: 235k Mortgage: 0 Childcare: 0 Retirement: max 401k and traditional IRAs College savings: 245K |
u old? |
Me 90k
DW 200k Early 30s 1 kid 2400-m day care Student loans 2500-m Rent- 3800-m |
50 years old |
No kids, own in NW DC
Me: $70k DH: $150k |
LMFAOOOO this is so funny to me |
What do you do?!?!?! |
That's a lot of freaking mortgage. Obviously you can do it and still save at a good clip, but that's a bunch of extra saving ls being foregone so you can keep up with the Joneses. We've got a considerably higher HHI and one third of the house payments. |
Jesus Christ ... not that good with financial planning are we? The debt strapped, house poor twenty first century American consumer. |
Me-$60K
DH-$140K |
Me 90K base+ commission (have done 240k this year, expect to hit 260k)
Spouse 140k base + commission ( seed year, expect to only make base) -mortgage: 3500 -vacation home : 800 - car payment 750 -aupair: 2000 - 2 sets of utilitirs: nauseating We try to live on our base only, but do dip into commission pay whrn needed. Due to the instability of our jobs, it's feast or famine. We can have a 500k year or a 230k year and live a 300k lifestyle. Considering taking savings and paying off the car and 2nd trust on our primary residence that would free up 1100/mo in cashflow. We do get rental income on vacation home that covers about 1/3 of total expanses on that. 38&40 |