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[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

5 person household, all adults now, mostly physically active. Probably 4k a month all-in.

That includes some booze, not much eating out and is paid by all of us so average 800 / month per person, but not evenly spread, kids are more frugal and do meal prep for lunches and husband and I spend more, and feed all of us once a day at least. Not much junk food, buy ingredients not premade things and I do have a garden.

[–] Perspectivist@feddit.uk 4 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Woah. That's over double my total monthly living expenses.

[–] RBWells@lemmy.world 3 points 14 hours ago

Yeah it's crazy, when I was a teenager we had the lowest cost grocery markets in the US, corn was often 5 cents an ear on sale, maybe 20 cents regular price, watermelon you could buy on the roadside for $1, those are about 1.50 and 7.00 now and that's pretty representative of the overall increase.

I'm counting everything that is consumed here, by humans (so including entertaining but not pets). Our total housing cost with electricity & insurance and taxes is really high here too (and is another thing that used to be cheap) , but again that housing is holding 5 people right now.