I'm sure you could do it if you had to. And of course it would be unpleasant. No one likes to give stuff up. But you are strong and you could survive if you had to.
My question isn't about whether you'd enjoy the experience but whether you could actually do it or not, even on a temporary basis without some DRAMATIC shifts in lifestyle. Like I said in my post, we actually CANNOT do it and still keep the house. We'd have to starve and live in the dark to keep this place on half the income. And I'm not willing to move just to participate in a 6-month experiment, so we can't do it. I'm interested in knowing for how many other people the basics (mortgage/rent, utilities and groceries without any perks or frills) are greater than half of what they bring home.
So ignoring the unpleasantness of giving up things you enjoy and crapping up your lifestyle, could you do it? Are your bare-bones expenses more or less than half of what you make?
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Date: 2009-07-16 03:11 am (UTC)My question isn't about whether you'd enjoy the experience but whether you could actually do it or not, even on a temporary basis without some DRAMATIC shifts in lifestyle. Like I said in my post, we actually CANNOT do it and still keep the house. We'd have to starve and live in the dark to keep this place on half the income. And I'm not willing to move just to participate in a 6-month experiment, so we can't do it. I'm interested in knowing for how many other people the basics (mortgage/rent, utilities and groceries without any perks or frills) are greater than half of what they bring home.
So ignoring the unpleasantness of giving up things you enjoy and crapping up your lifestyle, could you do it? Are your bare-bones expenses more or less than half of what you make?