[Kluny]

Anyone else find that even as they do their best to be frugal, expenses pile up as fast as your paycheck does?

In my case, as soon as I started making decent money, I got a hearing and glasses (I didn't have them before), started taking physiotherapy to fix my shoulders, going to the dentist, changing the oil in my car on schedule, buying shoes as they wore out instead of pushing them until they gave me hip and knee problems, etc... I wouldn't say I was "unhappy" about any of those things before I could afford them, but I simply didn't spend money on them.

[sdrothrock]

> Anyone else find that even as they do their best to be frugal, expenses pile up as fast as your paycheck does?

I've definitely experienced this. There are lots of things that you ignore when you're poor because they're just not feasible, but once you've got the money, they're not only feasible but foolish to not do.

[marcosdumay]

At some point the growth in expenses goes into things much more trivial than those you are enumerating. Things that you can obviously cut without any loss.

At some other point, either your expenses fail to keep up or you start to have such blatantly unneeded expenses that it is obvious that you can same some money with minimum effort.

And none of that even require a very large salary.

[JBlue42]

Yes. Waiting on new job to start then might get new tires (tread is good but they're 8-9 years old). Might get some basic household stuff I've neglected (new pillow). Haven't been to a dentist in a while so...yeah, scared to do that but nothing is wrong as far as I can tell knock wood.