America's poor actually live pretty durn well

[TheKentuckian]

21. Who would have thought that one could be well off for less than $15,000

I thought I'd hop on Walmart.com and see what it would take to be living the life of Riley.

I didn't even bare bones the TV, skipped the little shit and went with a 40 inch RCA for 278 or you can do a 42 inch Vizio for under 300 as well (though it would be a refurb). If you can go 400 then you can go up to 48 inches or get a 42 with surround (which i think has a dvd player) or a soundbar.

DVD players start new at about 20 bucks but we're getting that big TV so better spring for a bluray and go all out, I'll speculate go for name brand new one for 65 since pricing isn't available above a Sony refurb they have for about 55.

For AC, I'm taking either a Haier or a Frigidare 10,000 btu for 259.

I skipped all the computer refurbs for 100 - 200 bucks and selected an HP all in one with a 19 inch screen, 4 gigs of ram, 500gb hard drive for 349.

Microwaves start at about 45 but I'm going bigger and stainless for 65.

Let's do a ps3 with the controller and 3 games for 229 (seriously? I gotta get one) this will also give us the 2nd bluray player, sure like the computer the poor person probably has something a little more legacy but fuck it, no sense pulling up an old ass playstation or even xbox as Heritage does.

Since we are high tech, and a quarter of the poor have a dvr, I took a 500gb Magnavox with a did burner for 268.

So for 1,500 bucks we are decked out in all the comforts at home. From here we need to account for a car or two, I'm granting 5k to the budget and internet which is tricky because all the other stuff may last a decade. Ten years of Internet then? Okay, I'll grant 65 a month making our largest expense by far of 7,800 bringing us to about 14,500.

The funny thing is the stuff people love to harp on, even some on this site is super petty and a very small investment over the life span of the products.