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amother

Mayflower

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 10:36 pm

amother Geranium wrote:

We have 2 kids, make about 7,000 a month and are paying our bills and putting a few thousand in savings monthly Baruch Hashem.

How?! I’m making close to 7k a month and it all goes to my expenses and that’s with me living very very frugually. I do put a few hundred in retirement because my employer matches it. Where do you live? What’s your rent?

I don’t get how people are making it with such low incomes on this thread.

amother

Valerian

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 10:43 pm

Combined we make 200k
We pay our bills…barely.
I have a lot of help (cleaning and childcare) because we both work full time so that’s expensive
Believe it or not, we are very frugal. Mortgage is expensive, groceries are expensive, everything is expensive

amother

Black

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 11:13 pm

There is a very big gap in rent and expenses depending on where you live… the amount of kids you have and income are just 2 of very many factors…

amother

Lawngreen

Sat, Sep 07 2024, 11:54 pm

Our children are teens now (we married later in life).
Dh makes 300k and I make 50k.
This was not always the case and in the early years, dh experienced unemployment.

amother

↑ OP ↓

Sun, Sep 08 2024, 12:36 am

m-u-a-mama wrote:

What do you do ? Can you go somewhere with higher salary?

Also does he have an option to switch kollelim/chaburos and make a bit more? My husband switched chaburos to a paying one to pay for a specific expense

I love love love my job. Seriously.
No option to switch kollelim either.

amother

↑ OP

Sun, Sep 08 2024, 12:38 am

amother OP wrote:

I love love love my job. Seriously.
No option to switch kollelim either.

I'm in brklyn

amother

Sand

Sun, Sep 08 2024, 3:56 pm

Husband working makes 75k
I have a business bringing in about 50k

amother

Teal

Sun, Sep 08 2024, 4:10 pm

We have two school age kids. Nj, not Lakewood. We are in our 40s. Married late-ish.
Dh makes 180k and I make 30k plus tuition reduction (pre-tax) and about an additional 10k from a side job. Bh we can meet expenses and save. But we had help from parents with down payment for house bec we wanted to keep our mortgage low enough that we could manage easily each month.

amother

Bottlebrush

Sun, Sep 08 2024, 5:07 pm

I make $70,000 plus benefits
My husband makes $120,000

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