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sonnysaysOct 6, 2010
Don't need a graphic to know - Fast!
infoglyphsOct 6, 2010
food costs - pretty close numbers for eating out and eating at home
absolutelytrueOct 6, 2010
Live with parents, spend theirs instead.
thoughtsonthisOct 6, 2010
That's what most kids are doing today.
anomaly100Oct 7, 2010
Food.
kleon777Oct 7, 2010
useful information and scary.
niradgOct 7, 2010
Insurance pensions? Do they mean premiums? And for what? Nearly all consumer insurance is part of healthcare, transportation, or housing.
buplerOct 7, 2010
Entertainment and everything else would be a lot more for me :(
TerryGymOct 7, 2010
wow - this is crazy!
wertachOct 7, 2010
So wrong... Beer 50%, food at home 20%, Cigs 10%, 20% goes to mortgage and utilities!
equifaxpfblogOct 7, 2010
Apparel and services is surprisingly small. Only 3.5%?
tamckissickOct 7, 2010
A useless graphic. Really reaching for something to generate a headline without much work. I researched some of this for a book and found it quite different.
Without showing taxes it's meaningless.
By capitalizing "Pensions", they meant it to be a separate category lumped in with Insurance (see other phrases like "Everything else" and Health care" where they didn't capitalize it). Lumping these two together is hiding the fact that Insurance is probably $5,400 and Pensions is probably $71.
There's no way the "average" person spends $7,658 on air transportation. Not unless you're averaging in the billions spent by the elite per person.
Health care should include the employer's contribution which would nearly double it.
Interest is way higher than their number. There are interest and fee charges (same thing) on many of our transactions that most people don't even think about.
Why does automobile travel only show gasoline and oil when if you include taxes, insurance, maintenance and interest on the payments it's nearly 3.5 times that amount. The average commute is 40 miles/day x 235 workdays x .50 per mile which equals $4,700/year PER DRIVER. At 1.3 "incomes" per "unit", that's $6,110.
What I found was that the average person makes $1.6M in their lifetime. They spend ~$500-600K on actual goods and "needed" services. The rest is wasted on interest, insurance, taxes, fees and overcharges on products due to mega corporations needing to advertise and permanently grow in their global market. One has to wonder why we can't save the other million dollars for the emergency and for family/friend loans interest free and then give a percentage to taxes when passing it along when we die.