my rich ass

MY RICH ASS


Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! ( Flybar Foam Maverick Pogo Stick (Red/Blue) )Okay, I just got done fixing the spokes on my pimping red bomber. I wanted to replace the whole wheel but one wasn’t in stock ( needing to be wide enough to accommodate my fenders which cut down on two miles of dirt road mud in the rainy season ). A new one would have been $55 installed versus $35 labor just to repair the old. But since it takes $10 in gas for a round trip in the truck it was cheaper to get the bike back on the road immediately. So, as all the fates would have it, as Lady Lucks evil demented syphilitic red headed stepchild arranged it, no sooner do I get the repaired bike on the road do I endo off a curb and bust up a few more spokes ( no, no, don’t be worried, I’m fine- it was a bit embarrassing though ). Back to the bike shop ( Racor PBH-1R Ceiling-Mounted Bike Lift ) this lunch hour. I’ll repair plus order a wheel for next time. Short and sweet article as a result of dropping off the bike on my lunch hour.

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A loyal minion commented on how I was better off financially than 90% of my readers. I might have left this impression with all my “what I did this weekend” reports. Off the top of my head, I went to Reno twice this year. $500. I roofed over the Bisonia Pit Of Doom ( Tarzan #223: "The Pit of Doom!" ). $200. I bought the pipe for the eventual earth tube. $200. Several hundred more pounds of wheat. $200 ( I actually can’t remember how much I spent, but close enough ). I buy books every payday and sometimes at the end of the month when writing revenue has been extraordinary. Say, $800. I paid off the other lot of land. $1200. So, at least three grand last year on extras ( probably more like four adding in the kids gift money and whatever else I forgot to add ) . My income is minimum wage which supports two of us. Since I get all my fed taxes back my withholding is only 10%. Fifteen grand gross. Minus ten percent taxes and minus five grand child support. $8500 take home from working, plus two grand from writing ( it picked up recently so next year I might see three ). I bring home $875 a month. That might not sound rich, but consider my bills. A hundred for the land payment and a hundred for all combined expenses for the truck. Both those are either luxurious or short time expenses. Food is the only bill ( along with propane to cook it ) I really have that is unending and hideous. I can easily drop two or three hundred, 25 to 30% of my monthly take home and not worry about it. And since the books are built into my budget, the “frivolous”spending comes closer to 50%.

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I’m far from rich but by having almost no bills and no expensive habits like eating out regularly ( we just eat out to treat ourselves irregularly ) means that I can spend rich. I would wager that a yuppie scum earning four times my wages can’t find $400 a month to put into preps or anything else for that matter not relating to middle class living expenses. They can pay a mortgage or an SUV bill but they can’t buy a few hundred pounds of wheat on a whim. I could care less what you earn. It is all about how much you spend.

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