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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do you afford to live on just 1200 a month?  Honestly, I think you could find a full time position with two children at $18-20 per hour that also offer some benefits. Tell Family A, goodbye. They pay crap, let you go for maternity leave and will probably expect to pay you a $1 or 2 more the second child. Stick with family B and find a different second family if you need too
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It's easy to live on that amount a month if your rent is cheap. I think some people don't realize how you can survive on very little if you don't go and waste money on useless things. I think everyone should be homeless/jobless for a month or 2 and learn how to appreciate what they have and see that $1200/month can be fine (depending on location). Look at anyone on disability/SSI. In my area (one of the highest cost of living areas in the country), you get a measly $960 or so per month, then get food stamps and health care (medi-cal). Your money all goes towards rent, your food is from the food stamps, and medi-cal pays for your health coverage. You don't have any other spending money, and you can only earn an additional $90 per month or something. So if ALL those people can live off of that, then someone who has $1200 where their rent might be $300-600 is doing fine.[/quote]

I'm the one that made that comment. I know exactly what it's like to be poor as I grew up in public housing, had food stamps etc in Boston. The only way 1200 a month is okay is if your food, transportation, health insurance and rent are taking care of. Have you actually ever been poor? I live way below my means and my bills still wouldn't be covered with that amount, unless I was getting  food stamps and other subsidies. I also live right outside the city with two roommates in the cheapest apt for my area and my rent is $700. Cell phone bills are 80-100, food for a month is about 200 if I buy only basic items, then there is transportation $69 for a monthly t pass in Boston. With all that your left with maybe $100 extra for the month. If you have an emergency you're fucked. People who live off Medicare are suffering from struggling so much. A lot of them choose between there medication and food. You  spending a month or two jobless is not the same living out your life poor. Food stamps won't cover much for a single person and Medicare doesn't cover the entire cost of prescription drugs. It is not doing fine, it's just barely meeting your basic needs.

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