text:  the vast majority of your income goes to essentials meaning you don't have anything left over for like blowing money on a fancy dinner or on a health club membership or streaming a bunch of stuff or getting a lawn service in and so those are that's the tension in this story is there's there's a strict definition of paycheck to paycheck and then there's the one most of us just think of okay so so where do most of us fit in i guess in the in the in the real definition