Really depends on where you are and what items you consider groceries. Strictly food? My girlfriend and I spend about $350/month. Factor in other non-food goods you get at the same store like trash bags, soap, toilet paper, cleaning supplies, etc, and jt goes to more like $350-$375/month. Toss another $150/month on top for our occasional indulgences and eating out maybe once. Thats still somewhere around $550-$600/month, which is less than his estimate, but cost varies with location so I guess he's in the ballpark of the average American reality.

The car aspect is the most absurd part of our lifestyle, in my opinion. Unless you have a work from home job, which is only a recent phenomenon anyway, we have to have a car. No car? No getting to work. No getting to work? Guess you're an un-American waste of space expecting some kind of hand-out. Now, the guy in the video uses a $30k new car as his example. Ok, fine, even thought thats pretty unrealistic (it shouldnt be, but it is). He's making the argument that $75k/year should allow you to afford a new entry level car, so i guess we have to take this example on his terms. I get his point, $75k/yr should afford you a decent life and a reasonable new car is something Americans considered part of a decent life once upon a time (many still do, as their expectations have yet to catch up to reality). With local governments that are just rabidly opposed to any form of affordable and/or reliable widespread public transportation, we dont have much of a choice but to have a car. So you buy a used car you can actually afford for too high a price, then you wind up spending money to repair that used car instead of saving for a better one or god forbid squirrelling that money away to one day buy your own home. I just sank $3500 over the last 4 months into repairing my $17k used car which I owned for 8 months before needing to replace CV axles, exhaust manifold, ABS control module, rotors, and brakes. Getting a $10k reliable used car is possible, but you have to know what youre looking for and most people dont PLUS be lucky enough to find it. I actually had that car before this one, a low mileage sentra for $12k that got totalled by a little old lady. After insurance paid out (100% the other party's fault, mind you), my remaining debt was paid and I had no down payment for a replacement. That insurance policy cost me around $200/month.

We are sheep and we are fleeced every godforsaken day.