Re: Pick your salary
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For those saying it's easy to get by for the first year with option 2 you do realize you actually need to work...and get to work...and home...and have work attire and be showered and simple things like that right? And the ramen noodles...do you just chew them raw out of the pack or do we need a pot or bowl? Toilet paper optional? Deoderant a luxury? Just let the teeth fall out and buy gold ones ten years later? Most people spend $2500 per year on little miscellaneous items you wouldn't even think about when budgeting.
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You'd make a horrible homeless person. If you are worried about:
- A $1 pot from the $0.99 store. Supplies to start a fire to cook food are free if you have half a brain.
- Acquiring toilet paper...hmmm, where might I find free toilet paper? Oh yeah, everywhere!
- Deodorant...completely optional, but also cheap. Seriously, hit a $0.99 store sometime. They have everything you could need for hygiene for $0.99 each.
- Healthy teeth rotting and falling out in one year...it's much more gradual than that, plus once again, buy some cheap toothpaste if that's a big deal to you. Anyway, if anything happens, you'll be able to buy the best teeth money can buy in just a few years.
These should be the lowest of your concerns with being homeless. They are all easily solvable with little money. If you are homeless and you spend over $2500 on miscellaneous items, you are paying too much for those items.
To me, the biggest issues are getting over the startup costs (the sleeping bag, initial hygiene and cooking supply costs, and clothes) and getting proper nurishment everyday on your $6.84 per day budget. You may have to get by on about $2-3 of food a day for the first couple months. After that it should be slightly smoother sailing and better food.
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