How much do you bring home each month? How much is your mortgage?

[Anonymous]

13K, 4600 PITI.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our take home is $6500, mortgage is $2280.

No retirement savings going on. And we don't get insurance from work, so health insurance comes out of the take home.

I married my honey and wonder if I should have married money.

How do you guys manage??

I don't get this either. We have similar numbers and are fine. We do max out retirement and have insurance from work, but I don't see how that would make such a drastic difference...

[Anonymous]

$11.5K $2700 all in including utilities. We are upgrading and our PITI will be $3100 not including utilities.

[Anonymous]

What idiot resurrected a post from 2013 instead of starting a new one?
That’s ANNOYING.

[Anonymous]

We bring in about $11000/month, our mortgage is $1800. We are not in DC, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Our take home is $6500, mortgage is $2280.

No retirement savings going on. And we don't get insurance from work, so health insurance comes out of the take home.

I married my honey and wonder if I should have married money.

How do you guys manage??

I don't get this either. We have similar numbers and are fine. We do max out retirement and have insurance from work, but I don't see how that would make such a drastic difference...

Not the PPs but have similar numbers. Take home around $6500, PITI is $2200. Plus HOA = $495 and two in daycare! It’s tight right now but there is light at the end of the tunnel next year with daycare.

[Anonymous]

$45,000 take home, $9800 mortgage (15 year)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I bring home about $3800.
Mortgage is $1400
Also gotta pay for car, insurance, utilities, food, gas, speech therapy, etc.
There's nothing left. It sucks.
Tell me how much you bring home and how much the mortgage/rent is.

When I took home $1,500 a month I lived in Manhattan. You just need to cut back on spending.

I had no car which was a big savings. No cable, no cell phone, and had a cheap shoebox rent stabilized apt.

Later when I got a car I bought a beat up classic car to get dirt cheap historical insurance of $50 bucks a year. Drive it a few years and sold it for double what I paid for it. And did not food shop.

Knew every happy hour in town with free food. Add in only make friends rich people. Most vacations at friends houses

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Take home is $11k, mortgage, insurance and taxes is $3600 (2nd loan is a15 year loan, so it's higher than it could be).

This is us but for the parenthetical.

[Anonymous]

Single income family. DH invests majority of his paycheck in our retirement, college fund, savings. What I get is 10K to run the house, mortgage is 2 K. In the remaining 8 K, I pay for everything. Food, cars, utilities, insurance, medical, clothing, home repairs/remodeling, cleaners, tutors for kids, social life, vacations, emergency funds, traveling. For me, it is a very generous amount because we do not have credit card debt, private school expense, student debt, childcare now. I have got 10K since the last 15 years (not inflation adjusted) and it has worked because some of the expenses are no longer there (private schools, bigger mortgage, childcaare etc).

[Anonymous]

Take home $7500 after taxes and maxing retirement.

House paid off.

[Anonymous]

Gross is $10,700
Mtg is $1800 15 yr loan
Max out retirement

[Anonymous]

We take home about $15k after maxing 2 401Ks.
Combined mortgages on 2 homes is just over $5K.
We do well--no money worries.

[Anonymous]

$17000 combined. Mortgage is $0.

[Anonymous]

Take home is about $4k/month. Mortgage is zero. Zero car payment, too. zero student loans. pay off credit card every month, so no credit card debt.