If they're under 35 in the self check out that route is quicker. If they're between 35-60 it's a gamble. If they're both over 60 and you still choose self check out you probably hate yourself. Ballsack, if I remember right he makes way, way more than you do.
And then there's people like my mom who aren't that old and are absolutely obnoxious. She stopped writing checks at Tom Thumb about 3 years ago. I gave her so much shit about it. Or, sometimes she'll count out exact change. "I know I have a dime and 3 pennies in this purse!!" Thanks for holding up the line, Grandma Ethel.
I don't understand why stores refuse to open ALL self-checkouts when there's a line. One fuckstick store employee at the self-checkout watchtower can ignore four people as easily as two.
I've heard theres a ridiculous amount of theft that happens with the self checkout lines, I may be wrong though.
You're also forgetting where he lives though. In the midwest, 75k is a nice chunk. Anywhere else? Not so much. I make a lot less than that, and its been quite a struggle lately.
I can't imagine where 75K gets you in Manhattan. If you lived in say Indianapolis that wouldn't be bad living though. Btw, I'm starting to figure out how poor people stay poor, they keep having kids. 35K is livable for a single guy in his mid 20's, however if that guy in his mid 20s has a handful of kids he's screwed forever.
He lives in fly-over country. You can buy a McMansion out there for the cost of a small apartment in a civilized area. $75,000 of income (assuming this is take-home, after taxes) wouldn't buy you shit around Washington, DC or New York. The median income in my county is over $100,000.
Some of the people a year ahead of me came out of school making 100k doing home health peds. People who had no interest or experience working with kids sold out to work with them in a vacuum. I'm sure it's gonna work out great for all involved. That sounds like my nightmare. Enjoy calling CPS on the regular and walking into shit situations completely unprepared.
"What they want" is a huge variance. Just because you get approved for the mortgage does not mean it'll be an easy budget. I appreciate your focus on time over money, but retirement is not all that it's cracked up to be. You will get bored with an abnormally tight budget and a shrinking nest egg. I'd rather be working.
I live in flyover country too, guess it depends on where you want to live within. I just bought a house 1/3 smaller for 1/3 more to be out of the suburbs that he claims to despise. And I would be struggling trying to do it on $75K. And also have no kids and no debt. And two people contributing to the bills.
I live in Indiana, and when it was just my wife and I, while I was in school and she worked full time, she made slightly more than that. We also had her student loans, my school, mortgage, and a car payment (which it sounds like he doesn't have). To say we lived comfortably would be an understatement. We went out 4 nights a week, two vacations a year (at least), bought anything we wanted, and lived really fucking well. I have zero doubts that 'Sack could live incredibly comfortably on $75K, especially since he'd have less debt than we did. Substitute our two vacations a year for his country club membership, and there ya go. That said, where he might end up fucking himself is on insurance and saving for retirement. Personally, his plan sounds like my idea of fucking heaven, only I'd have kids.
A buddy of mine living in north Jersey right on the river looking into Manhattan pays $3500 a month for his apartment. My place is twice the size and $800 a month. But I live here. And I can afford to eat too.
"Flyover country " is kind of rude. I more like to think if it as a gigantic forest where Ned Beatty is constantly being rogered by hillbillies. And Scott Bakula is from there.
Y'all can make fun of "flyover country" all you want, but $3,500 a month for an apartment? Fuck that bullshit. That is 3 times the amount we pay for a 5 bedroom, 3 bathroom bi-level, that is less than a 1 hour drive from Chicago. I'd rather live here in the middle where I don't have to pay cost of living out the ass.
You must have really boring hobbies. I strive for the day I can live in a community and snowboard every day in the winter, and golf every day in the summer. I can not think of a more perfect life. Every morning that I go into the office I get one step closer to that life. It is the main thing that keeps me motivated to continue to do quality work.
I like the way you're thinking 'Sack. While I would like to make a little more than 75k I like this. Too many lawyers (and others) working themselves to death for money they don't need and shit they'll never use. Much of it in the name of insecurity and a heard mentality.