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Old 06-30-2025, 07:48 AM
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Originally Posted by TomPerry View Post
I am a retired CPA/Financial Advisor with over 47 years experience and admittedly a little anal when it comes to numbers. Average or median numbers for income and expenses are essentially meaningless, what is meaningful are your actual numbers. Here are the numbers for my wife and I for calendar year 2024:

Expense. Annual. Avg. Weekly. Ave. Monthly

Groceries. 9,723.51. 186.99. 810.29
Dining Out. 12,041.73 231.57. 1,003.48

Total. 21,765.24 418.56. 1,813.77
Thank you. These numbers are similar to mine. I was a bit worried seeing the estimates of $10K/year and below.
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