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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]$1500 - food/gas/misc. household expenses 
$200 - personal expenses (hair cuts, clothes, etc.) [/b]

This is why you have no money.  [/quote]

$1500 is not a lot to spend on the combination of food, gas, AND household items. In any case, OP is about to owe another $1,800, so starving her family to death won't solve the shortfall anyhow.[/quote]

She doesn't say how many people in her family, but for comparison, for my family of 2 adults and a 4 year old child, we have a weekly grocery store budget of $150. We don't go over, and we tend to spend an extra $100/month on dinner or brunch out. That's $700 in food. I have Amazon Prime delivering things like laundry detergent and dishwasher pellets and paper products. That costs about $100/month overall (some things are on a 3 month cycle, some aren't).

Food: $700
Household supplies: $100
Gas: $50

OP's budget for those things would give me an extra $650 a month to put toward other things.[/quote]

How do you feed your family of 4 for only $150/week. Tell me![/quote]

I don't shop at Whole Foods. I plan all of our meals. We don't buy snacks. We don't buy sweets. I buy crappy coffee (this makes me sad sometimes but I honestly don't notice anymore). I make everything from scratch, buy store brands and use coupons. I almost never buy any pre-packaged foods or things that are frozen except for frozen vegetables like peas and corn and spinach.

Also, DD is the only one who eats breakfast. DH and I mostly just have coffee. Occasionally I will eat a piece of toast. DD eats lunch at school, so I guess that's another $80 a month for her in food I forgot to include.[/quote]

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