my family just to feel basic comfort, so i’m happy with it?” i had a couple different numbers. i had just “alright, here’s my bare bones… i could do this, this fine if i had this much per month.” let’s just say that number was $3,000/month. if i cover that, we do okay. i don’t have enough for the trips and the fun stuff that i wanna do, but we’re okay.
then i might take another number – in my case, i’m in a smaller town, lower cost to living, but $5,000/month. with $5,000/month i can do all the extra things i wanna do. that’s fine, $60,000/year. so i just started 