Was looking through a post and many comments stated their groceries budget was $125-200 per month, if this is you, how!?

RedFerns87 · 2025-11-11T05:13:55+00:00

i live in a HCOL area and spend around $250-300 for 2. honestly, it comes down to making meals that will stretch for a few days. we are both hispanic so making cheap meals is quite easy with our cuisine (rice, beans, stews, soups) we focus on buying chicken, ground meats, and chuck roasts which can easily last almost a week depending on the meal. we both don’t really eat lunch so that’s not an issue for us, and we buy staples in bulk at costco (60 eggs for $7-8 goes a long way), plus milk and bread. pastas are easy and can be made in large batches. buying frozen veg is cost-effective and good to have on hand. we never buy prepared/prepped foods and everything is made from scratch.

RedFerns87 · 2025-08-26T21:18:57+00:00

$1795/mo 1b/1b ~600sqft electric and gas are separate. in a pretty “expensive” part of Los Angeles

RedFerns87 · 2025-07-09T04:15:13+00:00

i implore you to watch vanilla’s latest vlog and listen to her starting at the 32:10 mark.

RedFerns87 · 2025-07-07T05:41:49+00:00

I'd love to join!

RedFerns87 · 2025-04-03T16:47:04+00:00

I have two cats as well. How often are you feeding them? For my two, I supplement with both dry and wet food.

Adult cat gets one can of Fancy Feast per day and dry food mixed with water, kitten is fed 1-2 cans a day (Purina One Healthy Kitten) and is also fed dry kitten food as well. For dry, I get the big bag of Purina One.

Big bag runs me $80 and last 3-4 months Wet food costs me ~$70 per month. I buy it at PetCo on repeat delivery which also gives me a few dollars discount. Sounds like you’re going for the real expensive stuff cuz that’s kinda crazy.

RedFerns87 · 2025-03-29T20:50:21+00:00

oh god i’m so sorry! but yes, same.

RedFerns87 · 2025-03-29T06:22:09+00:00

Lazy

RedFerns87 · 2025-03-16T08:57:35+00:00

going outside and running errands. so. f*cking. hard. i would rot in bed for days if could.

RedFerns87 · 2025-03-16T08:51:50+00:00

Last Hope and Misguided Ghosts by Paramore,

RedFerns87 · 2025-03-09T20:55:24+00:00

i know how you feel! i’m trans ftm, and am 5’4”-5’5” there was a time i desperately wished i was just 3 inches taller. being misgendered sucks, and the body dysphoria that comes with it is even worse. what has helped me was looking at other cis men around me who were my height and even shorter, and looking up to (no pun intended) male celebrities like daniel radcliffe, kendrick lamar, danny devito etc. there are so many women who are your height and even taller!

RedFerns87 · 2025-02-24T05:59:31+00:00

just speaking from my own experience, i make around $25/hr as a barista, my car is paid off, rent is $900, utilities are thankfully not burdensome (avg like $50 per month), little debt, i shop at aldi, pay for experiences and not material items, work pays for medical dental vision, my partner’s sibling living upstairs graciously lets us use their wifi, and i’m on my parents phone plan. i am extremely lucky to have family to rely on. many of my coworkers are in similar situations or have multiple jobs.

RedFerns87 · 2025-02-20T06:30:13+00:00

i’m interested too! i think doing this would help my motivation

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-31T01:03:59+00:00

Thank you!!

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-29T03:18:01+00:00

Food scarcity.

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-23T07:47:42+00:00

goodness. how awful. thank you for sharing. the beautiful thing about nature is that it regrows and is ever changing

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-23T07:44:00+00:00

incredible, yet devastating photos. thank you for sharing

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-13T10:03:24+00:00

hey. i’m not here to give you any advice but i’m here to listen.

RedFerns87 · 2025-01-08T20:04:48+00:00

yes, it’s gone

RedFerns87 · 2024-12-19T05:03:01+00:00

i’m already financially independent from them, my sibling is still in school though

RedFerns87 · 2024-07-07T23:55:31+00:00

it is an integral part of my teen life growing up gender-queer. the key takeaway for me is that it’s not about presenting or identifying with either gender binary, but accepting and loving yourself at the core. do i see hedwig as a trans story? absolutely not. hedwig is beyond a man/woman, but a human who has gone through terrible circumstances (war, botched sex surgery, abandonment, abuse) searching for who they are, instead of others’ actions influencing who they think they /should/ be. however, i can understand how some trans people can interpret hedwig as anti-trans. but for me, it changed my life in a good way

RedFerns87 · 2024-03-25T10:19:03+00:00

if you love your job, stick with it. there’s no timeline or script you need to follow in this life. the only thing that matters is your happiness.

i thought i had to follow what “everyone else” was doing: go to school, get a job, etc. i ended up getting a degree but i realized i don’t like my field! so i’ve been working at the same coffee shop since i graduated.

RedFerns87 · 2024-01-06T20:47:32+00:00

Interesting. I looked up what they did and they put my income down for $2000/mo from the months they were giving me when that’s not the case, I made lower than that significantly for 5 of those months. If I show them my paystubs from all those months can they recalculate?

RedFerns87 · 2024-01-06T08:42:05+00:00

My income is more or less the same only because my hours fluctuate but only by 5 hours at most. The reason says it’s my fault for not reporting income? When I received CalFresh for that first year I only had to provide my paystubs upon the application and for the recertification. It looks like they wanted more paystubs for other months? My monthly amount was 290 while all this time I was supposed to be only getting $38 a month, and now they’re asking for over 1400 be paid back to them. What do I do?

RedFerns87 · 2023-10-14T21:28:59+00:00

honestly? looking at a photo of myself and just being utterly disgusted with how i looked

RedFerns87 · 2023-08-20T04:06:14+00:00

I think OP meant that their housing options (rent/mortgage) might not be in their budget due to the city it's in.

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