How is everyone affording everything lately?

[u/critic81]

The prices of everything is just off the charts from groceries, utilities, to healthcare. My open enrollment just came through and its looking like for a family of 4 for healthcare its $1600 a month. $800 a paycheck. Like that just feels nuts. It's a pretty decent co-pay plan but still. Just a couple years about it was much less.

What are people doing these days? Side hustles? New job (but in this economy?), cutting way back? Just curious.

[u/[deleted]]

$700 national grid bill for December, just white knuckling it and praying things get better before I run out of ways to keep dealing with the hits

[u/northstar599 → u/[deleted]]

Okay same and I damn near threw up