[dblock]

I think one should some hard math on how much food costs vs. some of these other expenses that the article says to start cutting _first_. TV is 100$, which is easily 5 days of food in New York City if you live on a budget. A car is 500$, which is a month worth of food. Even if food prices were to go down, it wouldn't be by 50%.

[jiggy2011]

I agree, don't buy stuff you don't need if you are buying stuff you don't need then stop doing that.

My point is more that this is trumpeted as ground breaking financial advice but actually in many cases you can still have financial problems even if you aren't buying crap you don't need at which point trying to cut expenses gets exponentially harder.