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post 10000169788 05-16-2026, 12:53 AM
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SRS In 2026, with food and living prices crazy high, is it still feasible to have a family?

Everytime my wife eats an egg or a banana, or has a glass of bottled water, I get stressed out. If I have children, will it not shorten my life by decades, through sheer stress on the finance level?
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I don’t have any idea how people are making it srs . I’m single , and I’m so broke that first thing in the morning I have to jerk off the dog just to feed the cat
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Originally Posted By MajorTendonitis
I don’t have any idea how people are making it srs . I’m single , and I’m so broke that first thing in the morning I have to jerk off the dog just to feed the cat
maybe handouts from rich parents
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The usual suspects at it again create a problem provide a solution, these psychos are making food unaffordable so bugs will be on the menu.
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Tbh, trumpcels might be right. Bidenflation seems to be coming down. I'm paying less for my groceries these days
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It’s definitely tough out there and we thankfully closed on our house in March 2020 right before the Covid real estate mogging (we bought for 375k on Long Island, house is now worth like $660k)

It’s feasible to have a family though, we’d definitely be much more paycheck to paycheck if we had bought a house now as opposed to 6 years ago, but we’d still be able to make it
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Originally Posted By John
It’s definitely tough out there and we thankfully closed on our house in March 2020 right before the Covid real estate mogging (we bought for 375k on Long Island, house is now worth like $660k)

It’s feasible to have a family though, we’d definitely be much more paycheck to paycheck if we had bought a house now as opposed to 6 years ago, but we’d still be able to make it
It's not that bad. I bought my last house in 2024 and while the interest rate rate is much higher than my other homes, the difference ends up being like $1000 a month. That's not nothing. But if shouldn't leave someone destitute either.
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Foods really not that expensive TBH. People just generally don't know how to cook or buy their meats(no diddy) already prepped. Like with chicken deboned, skinless. Buy veggies that are in season. If your going to buy fruit don't buy it already cut up, do it yourself. ultimately it's a combo of general laziness and ignorance when it comes to food.
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post 10000169946 05-16-2026, 06:52 AM
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Originally Posted By p7nk
Foods really not that expensive TBH. People just generally don't know how to cook or buy their meats(no diddy) already prepped. Like with chicken deboned, skinless. Buy veggies that are in season. If your going to buy fruit don't buy it already cut up, do it yourself. ultimately it's a combo of general laziness and ignorance when it comes to food.
Yeah inflation has definitely hit food no doubt about it but if you shop sales and plan right food should be one of your lowest expenses, if not the lowest.

We’re a family of 4 with a near-4 year old and a 1 year old and our monthly grocery bill ranges from $600-$750 and that includes diapers. I see single miscers posting that their monthly grocery/food bill is like a grand and it blows my mind
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Originally Posted By John
Yeah inflation has definitely hit food no doubt about it but if you shop sales and plan right food should be one of your lowest expenses, if not the lowest.

We’re a family of 4 with a near-4 year old and a 1 year old and our monthly grocery bill ranges from $600-$750 and that includes diapers. I see single miscers posting that their monthly grocery/food bill is like a grand and it blows my mind
Probably because 80% of it is g0ysl0p because the avg miscer is eating canned foods and ground beef. Or ordering door dash. So it's not like their eating expensive steaks daily

And the craziest part is the avg miscer is single. so it's crazy to have a grocery/food monthly bill that high for just one guy.
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post 10000169959 05-16-2026, 07:05 AM
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Originally Posted By p7nk
Probably because 80% of it is g0ysl0p because the avg miscer is eating canned foods and ground beef. Or ordering door dash. So it's not like their eating expensive steaks daily

And the craziest part is the avg miscer is single. so it's crazy to have a grocery/food monthly bill that high for just one guy.
Canned slop is at least cheap, though. Miscers are prob eating take out multiple times per week and buying premade food from the supermarket. My food bill would easily be upwards of a grand if I did that too.

I grew up in a working class house so my mom was always shopping sales and cooking meals and my wife grew up in a poor-ish house so her mom was doing the same. It’s still ingrained in us to be frugal like that even if we are solidly middle/upper middle class right now. It’s a good thing IMO, even if we were millionaires I think we’d be doing the same, at the very least to set an example for our kids
post 10000169962 05-16-2026, 07:07 AM
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Originally Posted By Silence3
I never wanted kids but if I did want them I would have them regardless of finances. Poor people have kids every day and they survive. I would just go for it and figure it out later.
Sweet heart your in your 50s. your tour is over, unless you want to chance giving birth to a retard

Originally Posted By John
Canned slop is at least cheap, though. Miscers are prob eating take out multiple times per week and buying premade food from the supermarket. My food bill would easily be upwards of a grand if I did that too.

I grew up in a working class house so my mom was always shopping sales and cooking meals and my wife grew up in a poor-ish house so her mom was doing the same. It’s still ingrained in us to be frugal like that even if we are solidly middle/upper middle class right now. It’s a good thing IMO, even if we were millionaires I think we’d be doing the same, at the very least to set an example for our kids
Yeah ordering out is probably the biggest expensive for those ******
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post 10000169968 05-16-2026, 07:14 AM
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Originally Posted By N0rds

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Originally Posted By JohnSmith
brutal truth pill
Yeah it sucks balls, realizing I will never have the adult life I enjoyed as a kid. Meaning having a lake cabin you go to once a month all summer, boats, lakehouses, fun chit back in the 90s and whatnot.


Now housing is so expensive most younger generations wont even afford a house, thanks to the flood of 3rd world useless scammers and welfare leeches.

Unless we take our country back from the invasive hordes, and deport them all, its over.
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Originally Posted By N0rds
Yeah it sucks balls, realizing I will never have the adult life I enjoyed as a kid. Meaning having a lake cabin you go to once a month all summer, boats, lakehouses, fun chit back in the 90s and whatnot.


Now housing is so expensive most younger generations wont even afford a house, thanks to the flood of 3rd world useless scammers and welfare leeches.

Unless we take our country back from the invasive hordes, and deport them all, its over.
I was not prepared for the reality that is my life now. As a kid I used to think being an adult would be epic, being an autonomous person who can do whatever the fuck he wants, now I am 38 and I am stressing the fuck out over the price of eggs and meat
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I have a wife and 5 kids but I have no idea what we spend on groceries. My wife does all the shopping. She's a stay at home mom so I'm the sole provider. We're not ballin, but it's fine. We still have to much stuff.

@silence3 - $1000 per month for three seems pretty high though. it works out to 3.58 per person per meal. A few years ago, I think we were more around 600 or 700 for a month. Maybe they aren't subtracting out non food items? That's what makes it annoying to track for us.
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Originally Posted By FarmersSon
I have a wife and 5 kids but I have no idea what we spend on groceries. My wife does all the shopping. She's a stay at home mom so I'm the sole provider. We're not ballin, but it's fine. We still have to much stuff.

@silence3 - $1000 per month for three seems pretty high though. it works out to 3.58 per person per meal. A few years ago, I think we were more around 600 or 700 for a month. Maybe they aren't subtracting out non food items? That's what makes it annoying to track for us.
700 a month for 7 people? completely impossible
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in a pinch i can live off 13-15$ CAD(like 9$ USD) of food a day. but i usually just buy pre made meals and i end up spending 22-25$ a day on food. saves a hour or so of cooking so whatever. paying 10$ to reclaim a hour of my day
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Im thinking of permanently doing one meal a day, maybe it will slow my metabolism so I can save money
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Originally Posted By JohnSmith
Im thinking of permanently doing one meal a day, maybe it will slow my metabolism so I can save money
kinda sad it has come to this
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Originally Posted By JohnSmith
700 a month for 7 people? completely impossible
Breakfast can be extremely cheap. Oatmeal or pancakes, for example. We rarely buy bread. I uaually make sourdough every Sunday and my wife makes wheat bread a couple times per week. Little kids don't eat much.

My number is probably a bit low because I have kids in school that do school lunch so they would be missing 5/7 lunches at home per week.
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Originally Posted By Silence3
I never wanted kids but if I did want them I would have them regardless of finances. Poor people have kids every day and they survive. I would just go for it and figure it out later.
People of your IQ should not be having children

Which is why you don’t have children, see further On the Origin of the Species, Darwin C.
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Originally Posted By JohnSmith
I was not prepared for the reality that is my life now. As a kid I used to think being an adult would be epic, being an autonomous person who can do whatever the fuck he wants, now I am 38 and I am stressing the fuck out over the price of eggs and meat
if ur an able bodied man having these geeky worries, it just means ur a bum
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Originally Posted By p7nk
Foods really not that expensive TBH. People just generally don't know how to cook or buy their meats(no diddy) already prepped. Like with chicken deboned, skinless. Buy veggies that are in season. If your going to buy fruit don't buy it already cut up, do it yourself. ultimately it's a combo of general laziness and ignorance when it comes to food.
This.

Plus if it really hits the fan: eggs, turkey/chicken, rice, beans, and a good number of frozen vegetables are cheap AF.

Or just take up hunting and blow a deer's head off. That's 100+ lbs of meat for like $0.80 if you don't count labour.
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