I am starting to get annoyed listening to the people around me complain about how hard it is for them, and then watching them go out to get fast food at lunch.

This guy and his wife both work. so they have 2 incomes, but they have to pay daycare and 2 car payments and had to get a house with a bigger garage for the 2 cars. He now has to pay twice as much for gas as I do, of course I only have 1 income but that is somehow looked over. He can barely scrape by, but that chick-fil-A sandwich sure smells good while I am eating ramen noodles for lunch. You know he is drinking that $1 water, too!

I am not even going to start on the guys who comiserate about money troubles while they are on the smoking deck.

I just smile at how much I have and how well I live on what I live on, and thank my wife for cooking extra at dinner so I can take a lunch to work the next day. That $5 a day lunch even just every Wednesday, which is 'order out' day at work would tighten my budget, but I get good home cooked lunches every day, except the days when the dinner was so good that there are no leftovers or when we had things that I don't like the next day like fried eggs or pancakes, then I eat ramen noodles.