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Yeah, I was just taking the piss. Honestly I would love even an extra spare $20 a month!
I might not just know "ThE vAlUe Of A dOlLaR!!¡" but 20 dollars would make no difference a month.
If you're only thinking of a single month, sure. But $20 is $20.
If someone gave you $240 every year for Xmas would you be stoked or would that feel insignificant?
A common insurance co-pay to see a Primary Care Physician (regular family doctor) is $40. That could mean going to the doctor or not for some folks.
$20 would pay for five different 30 day prescriptions of common generic prescription drugs.
$25 ($5 short) would buy more than a month's worth of insulin.
$20 will by 35lbs or rice. That's well over 2 weeks worth of meals (at 2000 calories a day).
$20 will pay for one month of mobile phone service with unlimited talk and text along with 4GB of data (as well as hotspot functionality)
$20 would pay for 100 full charges on a very large ebike battery. Thats enough to go 7500 miles of range on average.
Yeah, but it would make a marginal if almost unnoticeable dent in any bills I'm actually stressed/worried by.
What is the dollar figure of your highest interest bill and its interest rate?
While I agree $20 doesn't go far, a $20 bill at least makes sure I have enough to give my kid if he says he needs a couple bucks.
Which as always is a fair answer. I do get feelings of joy remembering asking my parents for something and them actually saying yes for like a book/video game/flash drive. Hell, I remember being excited exactly that way getting an 8gb flash drive so I could finally burn dvd's to something other than physical DVD's.
Hope your kid gets that too!
To be fair my kid is a man now, he still lives at home but that is mainly because he doesn't have a need to move out and he can save up while he lives at home (he works in his chosen field but prices are crazy). He definitely got almost anything he wanted but he always asked for stuff within reason and against all odds we've had a particularly lucky run at things over the past decade or so.