See poll above:I'm curious what % of DDF users who are in the income-earning stage of life generally live (1) below their means, (2) above their means, or (3) about paycheck to paycheck?
Obviously this is easier to do with a higher income, though plenty people with modest incomes live below their means and plenty of people with high incomes live above their current income level.
The focus is not on the COVID-19 era (with many income challenges), but in years prior to that or just generally.
This is a spin-off of the thread on high wedding expenses in the frum community, which gravitated toward this discussion of living below ones means.
https://forums.dansdeals.com/index.php?topic=115607.msg2227849#msg2227849 , and a recent article referenced in that thread:
https://mishpacha.com/conversations/blog-unboxed/ .
P.s. By the way, according to the search function, that thread is the only place the word "means" shows up in the DDF.