Most people would consider $6,000 a month a pretty comfortable budget—unless you're someone's retired mom spending $1,500 of it just on dining out, with zero rent, zero healthcare costs, and a paid-off house in California. According to a post in the Millennials subreddit, that's exactly what one user is dealing with.
"My elderly mother claims it's impossible to live on less than $6K a month," she wrote, baffled. "She eats out almost every meal and spends roughly $1.5K per month on food." Meanwhile, the poster is pulling full-time hours and still brings in less than half of her mom's passive income—money her mom receives from the poster's late father and grandparents.
