S/O of my other post about Chirstmas spending
Could you live off 1700.00/month and still manage to save some money every month?? I am trying to see if it could be done. I know plenty of people can live off that much per month but could you still manage to save 50 or 100 per month?? I am pretty sure that this is BM's "budget" so to speak. The reason I know the amounts is because SO used to pay all these bills in addition to giving her cash :jawdrop: every month. He was paying about 2000.00 to 2200.00 every month!! All without a court order. When he and I got together she went straight to court to get it all in writing because she didn't trust that he would keep paying her. Well she was right because the ran the figures and she got 1700.00/month and she is responsible for all her own bills now.
Rent 600 this is an average of our area
Car Pymt 262.00
Insurance 100.00
Cell Phone 50.00
So as far as I know this is what she pays out a month. That leaves about 688.00/mo to pay for utilites,gas,etc. Now I think that I could manage to save some money out of that every month. But BM smokes 2 packs a day and gets Starbucks coffee every day. She doesn't buy groceries because she is scamming the system and is somehow still getting aid to buy food. Oh and she doesn't spend much on SD because we pay for everything. She might buy her some toiletries but I don't know because SD usually takes that stuff from our house. Now mind you she could be really doing well for herself if she would get a freaking JOB!!!
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Of course I could. I would
Of course I could. I would want to provide more for my kids so I would get a job to help out but then again that is just me. I don't settle. I get 400.00 a month (well I am suppose to get, him paying it is another story), rent is 1760.00. Child Support is to help support your child not for the purpose of supporting the BM so that she can be unemployed.
She should have a job. CS is
She should have a job. CS is supposed to be a "portion" of the children's support. She's "supposed" to contribute the other portion.
In answer to your question... never in a million years could I live off of $1700 a month. Not with kids. My housing costs more than that.
^^^This. Our mortgage alone
^^^This. Our mortgage alone is DOUBLE this.^^^^^^
Exactly. That's how I
Exactly. That's how I responded in the other post. The unfortunate thing is, the NCP is court ordered to pay his/her portion, but the CP is NOT. I know that's an impossible undertaking, but you get what I'm saying... Too often the CS is looked at as the ONLY method for supporting the CP household, and of course it's NEVER enough. At least in the situation I live with every day it isn't considered enough (the BM).
A person could definitely do
A person could definitely do it- IF they wanted to.
Before I bought my house, I lived in an old, cheap apartment building. It was not the greatest part of town but certainly not the worst.
I have never had a car payment, have always driven used cars that I paid for in full.
I have an inexpensive cell phone that I rarely use so it is just a prepaid plan that costs me hardly anything.
Cigarettes & Starbucks really add up so I guess we know where her priorities are.
Wow, I wish I could get 1700
Wow, I wish I could get 1700 for child support!! I'd go on vacation every month! lol If she can't live off 1700 than she needs to get a damn job! There is just no excuse for that crap! Of course you can live off 1700 and still save a little money. I'd go nuts if my DH had to pay that much for child support!