This is an article about a military family of four who can live well of off just $14,000 a year.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/military-family-manages-scrape-14-001249660.html;_ylt=A2KJ2PZa8TNR0UcAnTzQtDMD
Okay, so I'm going to be seeing this article with a different perspective. The article itself didn't contain much of a struggle. The article gave a brief summary of how Danielle Wagasky and her family have lived the last four years of their life. You see, her husband was in the military and thanks to the GI bill, they are given $14,000 a year. In 2008, after her husband was deployed, and after she started getting behind on the bills, she knew that something had to change. Her husband told her about a book and after reading it she changed a lot of things. Her kids are home schooled,go to the grocery store once a month, switched cable for Netflix and hulu, and she learned to cook so they wouldn't go out much. Overall they say that they live a happy life and don't feel like they're missing out on much. But, would you be able to do that? wave good bye to McDonald's every time you see it? i know for sure it'd be a struggle for me. It's got to be a struggle for them sometimes too. It's not easy to have a budget, just ask Justin Bieber who pays $750 for a haircut. This my friends, is the struggle of not knowing when or how to save money and thinking that it isn't possible. Danielle Wagasky does what most of us don't have the will to do.
I think that most people wouldn't be able to live how Danielle Wagasky and her family live, simply because they take what they have for granted. Many people don't realize that whlie they are able to buy many different things for themselves and their families there are also people who aren't able to afford these things, and instead of just leaving their unused extra things lying around, they should help out the families in need by donating to them.
ReplyDeleteYou make a great point. I know I could never live like that. We all grew thinking luxuries are needs when they aren't. They have realized that luxuries are just that, unnecessary items.
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