I have yet to see a poor person blog written by anyone who are actually too poor to save, instead its just people who don't understand how much all the small th

I have yet to see a poor person blog written by anyone who are actually too poor to save, instead its just people who don't understand how much all the small things they buy actually adds up at the end of the month. In the end you just need a computer (20$ a month over its lifetime) with internet (10$ a month) for most non-physical needs, food is dirt cheap if you just buy the right things (2$ a day so 60$ a month is enough to live healthily) and clothes last a very long time so no need to buy new ones that often (~20$ a month), then you have 40$ a month for random things. That is 150$ a month after rent and transportation, if you got more than that and still can't save you are doing something wrong. Personally I lived like that for many years, with 350$ rent on 1000$ income and thus saved 500$ a month, after a few years you will have saved a couple of ten thousand dollars. That was enough for me to take time off to learn programming properly without worrying about money, I am now working as a software engineer and make lots of money (not sure how people can find enough important things to spend this much on...) but I hated blogs like this even when I was poor.