What's the least amount of salary your family has made in a year?

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter if one or both of you work, what's the least amount your house hold has ever made in a year? My DH and I made only 10,000 for one year, and get this. We were on NO assistance what so ever. We were clearly elgible. We didn't really know anything about it at the time. Lol.Thankfully that was way before we started a family. We lived on our own, too, and we didn't even have electricity or hot water. We had neighbors who offered to hook an extension cord to us so we could have one light in the whole house to a little lamp and use a microwave, and we paid them some money monthly for it. We also lived off of ramen. It was awful.

[Anonymous - Original Poster]

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[SweetPea05]

12000.... not a fun year.

[auntietotty]

We;ve been married for 29 yrs...so that would be hard for me to remember.

Probably whatever we made in 1983 when we got married....since wages were way lower then...

lol honestly, I have no clue!

[my123sons]

When we got married 17years ago I was still in college and he was just starting out. We made maybe $20,000 that first year.

[Joels-My-Love]

From 2007-2010 we made 17212 from 2010 to jan 2012 we made 11280. We now make 40,000.

[Charliesmommy11]

The year I quit my job and the very next day dh got laid off I think we only grossed like 23,000 . Not fun considering we had just bought our house at the beginning of the year and a new to us truck since his broke down. It took us over a full year to get caught back up on bills. Our savings still hasn't recoverd.

[OutlawMUA]

12-14k or so

[Anonymous]

like $50k? DH is an engineer. There was a few months where he got laid off and I delivered pizzas - we made about $1500 a month then (unemployment was so much). He was a great SAHD!

[Miranda1127]

 $12k and we also were on no assistance. We also had a family at the time and managed our own electricity...and other such things. Nor did we live off of Ramen noodles. It was awful, hard, and I would never want to go back there....but it is possible to make do on very little.

[momo3fgr8tteens]

75,000 dh and i were both out of college when we got married