Would seeing detailed budgets from other people in your area help you? Is this something we should work on anonymizing and publishing? Would this provide benefit to your family? Would you be willing to publish your family’s anonymized budget?

Yes to both. I’m always wondering if we are working more/less/average compared. I think family size would also be helpful besides location

Yes will of course include family size

yes to both

I think the challenge is for the data to be specific enough to be useful without being specific enough to be identifying. I find the Lakewood column to be entertainment more than education, since there is such a lack of background info as to make it unrelatable (to me).

I think you'll be pleasantly surprised by the level of detail in my version of it then 😊 obviously if it could use more, you let me know!

Yes to both as well

I am curious how much other people spend on groceries clothing household stuff and optimizations.

What do you mean by optimization? Like subscribe and save, Instacart etc?

😅 I mean like how do they manage to spend less than me and not feel constricted

Nice. Yeah I’m curious about some stuff like that as well. I’m in Morristown NJ. Meal planning for us saves a lot and I eat a lot of the same food. For example, eggs or oatmeal and an apple for breakfast. The kids have cheerio’s or yogurt. Sometimes rice cakes, sometimes toast. I’ve seen having a plan of some kind and buying about the same type of food helps the food bill. It’s when you go into a store, have no idea what you want, and buy a bunch of random things is when the bill goes up IMO. I very rarely take advantage of sales because I’m skeptical of it being a marketing ploy (I work in marketing lol).

i created this channel when we started the slack exactly for these types of planning discussions, hasn’t caught on yet #food

I stock up on like 4 months worth of diapers whenever costco has a sale. That usually lasts me until the next diaper sale.