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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]

We feed a family of 5 on $150/week.  And the answer is simple: Shoprite.  I stopped buying much in the way of organic (still get meat straight from the farm), but it's cheap!

On the other hand, there's no way we could get by with only $50/month in gas.  We drive to work/daycare about 10 miles each way in DC traffic.[/quote]

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