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Isabella :
Everything is so expensive. I bought 3L of milk yesterday and it was $5.17...... We use 9L of milk a week. At that price we will be paying over $800 a year on milk alone!!
2026-05-06 22:28:03
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Frontline990 :
Families still can. You live within your means. You don’t need the brand new house or live in an expensive survive, you don’t need the new car, caravan, boat or JetSki. Don’t keep up with Jones’s
2026-05-03 02:26:47
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Lauren Darling :
I’m a mum working as a high school teacher 4 days a week, half of my income goes to just the mortgage. Then there’s food, nappies, daycare, kids clothes and what not, power, water, insurance, rates and my mobile data plan. I am left with $50 a week after everything and I have cut down/ gone to the cheap version, op shopping, toy library, little book libraries. I am so tightly budgeted and have to put that final $50 away for birthdays and Christmas. There literally is no money for anything for me, no new clothes, make up, hair appts, work shoes, doctors or dentist for me. I do not have a single dollar for me it goes all to the house and my child.
2026-05-25 08:24:21
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vegemitesammich :
The interest rate was around 17% in 1990, both my parents had full time jobs, and secondary casual jobs, it was not an easy period financially as some people seem to think.
2026-05-03 00:08:12
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Derwent :
You’re correct. So why are people having a family when it’s unaffordable?
2026-05-07 13:05:35
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B :
100% if I stayed at home to avoid daycare for our 3 children- my husbands income would cover the mortgage and groceries and maybe there could be $100 left - so electricity would be a problem, water, insurance, council rates, clothing ….we have to have 2 incomes just to be poor
2026-05-03 07:27:40
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youreabot :
I’m a single stay at home mum of 2 getting $1700 Centrelink a fortnight. And I’m renting $650 a week, but yet I’m doing okay. You sacrifice !!
2026-05-04 03:54:34
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pup 🤍 :
Rent is $700 per week. Mortgage is $1200. It’s impossible for a single income.
2026-05-09 04:52:31
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Elena Rider :
I used to earn $830 a fortnight back in the day while studying at uni and working part time. I was living out of home and paying market rent (share house). It was tight but doable. These days that’d be impossible
2026-05-04 09:54:01
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SBE :
The whole system is rigged against regular people. I can’t work as I am a carer to my disabled child. My husband apparently earns too much for me to receive any decent carers payment from the government. His wage barely gets us by and I’m unable to work and contribute to my super. We should be able to comfortably live on one salary if life was fair.
2026-05-02 12:00:21
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ROW 🇵🇸 :
I can’t believe some of these comments acting as if you WANT to put your children in childcare? 😭 It’s a necessity and very common for two working parents!
2026-05-03 06:42:22
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Jane50D :
I stayed at home with my kids it was very hard to pay the bills. But I never had my nails done or any beauty treatments. I only wore target or Big W. We had very few holidays. We had to do up things ourselves like painting or fixing things. We didn’t ever have 50% left over to live on. I think don’t spend more than you can honestly afford if that means an apartment or townhouse instead of a home so be it. Have one car someone catches the bus or rides to work the other has the car. You don’t need a house full of the latest furniture from freedom. Or a face full of Mecca makeup. All these little things do help to make life affordable. Your time to spend money on things you want that comes when the kids leave school. It sounds tough but it’s worth it in the end
2026-05-07 12:31:21
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Tommie Girl :
Not just that, but our parents lived an era where a village still existed. They’d all catch up or their kids would be at someone else’s house. Parents rarely sat down and played, we were outside making adventures. It was simple, there wasn’t an abundance of toys and tech. We made fun. Now parents are expected to keep up with new this and new that, while wages don’t shift with the cost. Food was simple and you ate it. Now it’s triple the price for a smidgen of the quality or nutritional value.
2026-05-03 05:40:43
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Mich31965 :
@Mich31965: We had 17% interest rates. Bought old houses & slowly renovated them we lived on $150 a fortnight, after everything was paid for with 2 kids. It was bloody hard. But we lived within our means. My adult kids have it hard as well now. It’s tough for young families . I help them out with grandkids, but the cost of living is just as bad now as it was in 1990
2026-05-04 05:01:46
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FREDRicka :
But there also wasn’t two mobile plans per house, streaming services, two cars. No foxtel, no gym memberships, no beauty treatments or injectables. Fashion was simple.
2026-05-06 02:57:49
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Loz- Mum of 6 🤪 :
You can do it but you have to give up luxuries. I have 6 kids and have been a SAHM the entire time. But that’s what we want, we would rather go without big holidays etc to be there for our kids
2026-05-03 04:46:52
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davenavarro6155 :
I live in a poor suburb of Melbourne. one income. 2 kids, house paid off
2026-05-06 21:51:23
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strawberry :
We’ve all seen the data, why do we have to keep arguing over this like this is an opinion. It’s a fact…
2026-05-10 23:50:08
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Trisha Paulissen902 :
The cost of living has well exceeded the median wage. When I was a kid, my mum stayed home while my dad worked as a truck driver, we had a home, two cars and were in private school. There is almost zero chance this would be achievable today
2026-05-08 08:50:44
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hgghhhghj :
But who decided on your predicament if it wasn’t you
2026-05-04 20:47:14
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Zen 🧘♀️ :
My family have a mortgage they have had since their children where small is around $250 a week, my and my partners mortgage is $700 a week.
2026-05-23 22:43:10
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Onyx76 :
Be a dream to have two incomes in my home
2026-05-03 10:50:37
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Terri Rooney :
I grew up in the 70’s and having a working mum was not normal, literally I was the only child in my class that mum had a job. In saying that I lived an amazing life with beautiful home, with a pool & annual family holidays.
2026-05-03 10:13:52
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lira :
I live on 45k a year with 4 kids. no afternoon activities or sports and no holidays. when they get older hopefully I can get a better job and work more.
2026-05-03 14:27:10
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