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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (212737)	7/20/2007 2:43:56 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 794032

Add in the taxes and you'll be able to relate to your friend. Not really. You seem to have a different sense of necessities than I do. I would consider meals out, movies, or after work drinks, at whatever price, to be extravagances for anyone not affluent. A home-made peanut butter sandwich makes an adequate lunch, even for a New Yorker. So food will cost the family around $16k/yr. We were talking about a threshold for poverty here. Poor people with cooking facilities in their homes can eat for very little. I just posted that my dad spends $100/month for groceries. And he's a big man with a good appetite. (I, OTOH, eat most of my meals out. It's not cheap. Paid $17 for lunch today, then picked up a $14 piece of grouper for dinner. Today's eats will be about $40. Extrapolate from that and it approaches $16K per year just for me. But then, I'm not teetering on the threshold for poor. If I were, I'd be cooking beans and rice.)