In your wildest dreams, how much money would you need to live per month?

[ColbertWatcher]

I just got finished reading this thread about how much money another corporate sociopath is being paid (I refused to say he was earning) $39,452.05 per day, including weekends.

WTF!? For a thirty-day month, that comes out to $1,183,561.50!

Okay, DU, in your wildest dreams--say, you won the lottery, or something--how much money would you need to survive month-to-month. Just you personally, not for a business. You may also include any members of your family that you can't ditch.

How much money would you need to live per month?

The "salaries" below are post-tax.

[SharonRB]

1. I assume these numbers are post-tax, right?

[ColbertWatcher]

2. Sure. I'll add that in there. n/t

[SharonRB]

5. Thanks!

[rateyes]

3. In my wildest dreams?

None. In my wildest dreams, I would like to be able to survive and thrive without the need for money.

[Toucano]

11. Excellent response!

I've been working on developing a society that doesn't need money, but I haven't got all the kinks worked out yet.

[onehandle]

4. The Paris property alone would be over 5k.

I won't even mention the NYC property.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

6. For My Wildest Dreams? I'd Go With 25000-50000.

I mean, more would absolutely be welcome of course, but 25-50g would make my dreams more than wild enough. :)

[ecstatic]

7. Assuming a mortgage of around 5k/month, I'd say 10k

or wait, 15k...since mortgage should be 1/3 of income. :)

[dysfunctional press]

8. as much as i had to spend.

all i can say is that my wildest dreams are pretty fucking pricey.

a better question might be to ask what would be the bare minimum you would need to live, and/or maintain some semblance your current lifestyle...?

[ColbertWatcher]

15. Yes, that would be a more reasonable question.

But, I wanted to see if anyone could ever dream of the GM guy's apparent monthly need.

[HeraldSquare212]

9. We all tend to spend whatever we have, more or less.

[Liberal_in_LA]

12. yes, you get a raise, suddenly you MUST have a flat screen.

[hfojvt]

14. no we don't

Not me anyway. I always have money in savings, put money in my IRA and try to save.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. different poll - "what's the minimum you need to survive?". In my wildest dreams I need a billion.

[Greyhound]

13. You couldn't spend it.

Even globe hopping and picking up entire countries you'd run out of things to buy in less than a year.

[Liberal_in_LA]

16. I'd hope to make large donations to nonprofit charities

[ColbertWatcher]

17. Agreed, if I somehow got $1 million a month ...

... and had to spend it all, I'd create a charity!

[hfojvt]

18. I currently live on less than $1,000 a month

so I guess at $4,000 a month, I would feel obscenely rich.

[brendan120678]

19. My wife and I survive just fine...

on about $9K per month, combined income pre-tax.
That's to support the two of us and our 6 month old baby.

We could even survive on less if we had two - we're comfortable where we are now.

[Wiley50]

20. Once I had bought for cash the million dollar sailing catamaran

I could live easily on less than $1000 a month anchored out in Central America

In fact, I'd have trouble spending that much

[grannylib]

21. We're doin' it on a lot less than $5k/month now, but it's a major struggle...

I'd be delirious with say, $6-7k/ month. I'd feel super-comfortable with that kind of money. SUPER comfortable.

[bemildred]

22. I have found in the past that at around $90K per annum I had more than I knew what to do with.

I now live on much less than that. There is nothing more pathetic to me than someone making say $350K a year that doesn't know how they can make ends meet. You have to be pissing away one hell of a lot of money to do that.

[Mike 03]

23. To me, $5,000 a month is a very comfortable amount.

But I am lucky in that I don't have a mortgage, rent or car payments. Also, I live alone. No family. Just me, a dog and a cat.

I am really trying to curtail my spending because of a fear of loss of buying power in the future. I'm training myself to live on the bare essentials and am cutting out many of the luxuries and discretionary items I used to enjoy.

[MilesColtrane]

24. Since there's no ceiling on what insurance companies can charge...

...for medical, and given the growth curve of premiums and co-pays, I'll go with 50-100K a month.

[Burma Jones]

25. About what the wife and I make now.....my wildest dreams generally have no cash value

and, given enough Baby Sitters, we can afford to do whatever we want.......

Time is way way way more valuable than money

That's what happens when you don't buy as much house as you possibly can afford........

If I had a Million a Month, my parents and my Brothers could finance some of their wild dreams.......

[Mike 03]

26. "Time is way way more valuable than money"

Amen to that.

I would trade all my money for time in a second.