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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It sounds like you need to build up your emergency savings so that these non-recurring expenses don't wreck your budget.

Earmark separate savings for luxuries/treats. So they're not conflicting with each other.[/quote]

This isn’t a question about personal budget. There is no budget hack for simply not making enough money and things costing so much

The question is why do things cost so much? [/quote]

Because everyone wants a liveable wage. In the past, certain people were working for far less than they were worth, which kept costs down. [/quote]

No, it's because everyone wants the best of everything all the time, but the say "it's not that much" because some billionaire consumes more.

Your grandparents would be amazed at how much you consume.  Your house is bigger. Your food is fancier and imported from around the world. Your cars are plural, and bigger and fancier and technology complex. Your computers and streaming music and movies and games... [/quote]

Only part of this is true. My house is much, MUCH smaller than either of my grandparents'. I have one car, they had two.

It's true that we have computers and cell phones, which they didn't at my age - although they did a few years ago before they died. They also bought imported food from the grocery store. Yes, life is different and in some ways we consume more than they did when they were young parents in the 50s-60s. But we don't actually have higher expectations than they did in 2000 or 2020, when most were alive and also lived with modern technology, food supplies, etc.

I also think raising kids is more expensive now. 
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