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Mar 31, 2015
8:50:59am

snowbird

monthly income may be a better indicator. I would hope to have 5 - 10% unallocated at the end of the month.

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snowbird

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What would you consider comfortable "wiggle room" in your monthly expenses?

P-Boy Squad

3/31/15 8:47am

Nearly all finance questions are relative to your earning power, so a % of your

snowbird

3/31/15 8:50am

IMO it should be a percentage of your income, not a hard number, and it shojld

shakinbaker

3/31/15 8:51am

Go with the higher amount. It'll pay off later. And if it ends up being too much

cucciolo25

3/31/15 8:53am

The floor regardless of earnings power based on emergencies

Y Mountain

3/31/15 8:59am

$50

TNT

3/31/15 9:06am

Don't save, be patriotic and pay your extra to taxes or by buying something you

jonnnylingo

3/31/15 9:06am

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Buffalo

3/31/15 9:09am

We are saving 6% right now towards a 401K only because my company does

P-Boy Squad

3/31/15 9:22am

Freakin' rich CB'ers. Who has wiggle room anymore?

Paco

3/31/15 9:16am

The ideal for our family is between $12,000 and $15,000. We usually hit that

The Dude Abides

3/31/15 9:18am

Whatever happened to The Joneses?

kccougar

3/31/15 9:22am

$2800 for shoes?

TNT

3/31/15 9:35am

he's got a whole wing of the mansion just for the Louboutins

byujag

3/31/15 9:42am

Well they were on sale so...

The Dude Abides

3/31/15 10:27am

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