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[quote=Anonymous][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]

$50 a MONTH on gas?  Not unless you and your spouse are driving mopeds.

I spend around $150/wk for food for my family of 4.  But I supplement with a trip to Costco every 5 weeks (11 X per year) and spend roughly 300.  So that puts me at about $210/wk (compared to PP's $170 for same items) for food/household goods/cleaning products/pet products - we could pare out 40 bucks if we had to.[/quote]

I guess you drive more than we do! We have one car and I take the bus to work/DD's school. DH drives to work twice a week but otherwise takes metro. OP didn't say what their car dependence was. My work gives a transit subsidy, so that costs me nothing.[/quote]

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